Recipe: Whole Grain Beer Mustard

These days you can find any number of novelty beer mustards at boutique grocers, but nothing will be as delicious as the one you make yourself with a favorite local brew. Choose a bright, flavorful beer like Yards Philadelphia Pale Ale or Dogfish Head 120 Minute IPA and your mustard will taste like biting into

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The Modern Cocktail Garden: Presenting 18 plants to grow (and drink) this summer.

Herbal cocktails have evolved beyond the mojito. Why should the garden be any different? All across town, smart bartenders are mixing sophisticated summer elixirs with leaves, flowers, berries and buds of locally grown flora. Since you, savvy gardener/drinker, already have the mint-and-basil basics mastered, we thought we’d help you diversify your imbibe-able herb portfolio. Muddle

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Curd is the Word: You don’t need a dairy to make farmer’s cheese.

Resembling a pot of creamy, green-flecked pebbles, the addictive herbed farmer’s cheese made by Sue Miller of Birchrun Hills Farm materializes unpredictably enough to make its every farmers market appearance memorable. Sweet, milky and deliciously versatile, farmer’s cheese is just a bottle of milk and a squeeze of lemon away when you can’t get your

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Brewed Awakening: Time trumps temperature in this cold coffee recipe

Cold-brewed coffee has a long and delicious history in New Orleans, a city that can lay claim to even more sticky summer days than Philadelphia. Traditionally brewed at home in old mayonnaise jars with chicory, the concentrated elixir is diluted to taste, sweetened and sipped on porches as a respite from oppressive temperatures.

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Recipe: Peach pie with crumble topping

Peach Pie with Crumble Topping
1/2  recipe of basic pie dough5     cups sliced peaches (8-9 peaches)1/2  cup brown sugar1/3  cup all-purpose flour1     lemon, zested and juiced1/2  tsp. cinnamon1/2  tsp. almond extract

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Recipe: Basic Blueberry pie

Basic Blueberry Pie
1     recipe of basic pie dough6     cups blueberries (fresh or frozen)1     cup sugar1/3  cup all-purpose flour1     lemon, zested and juiced1/2  tsp. cinnamon1/4  tsp. grated nutmeg2     Tbsp. butter1     egg (for egg wash)

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Recipe: Strawberry-Rhubarb pie

Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie
1     recipe of basic pie dough1     quart strawberries, washed and quartered1     pound rhubarb, chopped into 1-inch lengths1     cup sugar1/2  cup all-purpose flour1/2  tsp. vanilla extract2     Tbsp. butter1     egg (for egg wash)

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Recipes: Spears of Joy

Asparagus signals the arrival of springby Marisa McClellan, foodinjars.com
Each spring, I celebrate the arrival of local asparagus. Those fat, green-verging-on-purple stalks mean that the season of verdant abundance has arrived. I binge on the stuff—much like my beloved grandmother Bunny did before me—buying armloads of asparagus, slightly fearful that it will disappear before I’ve had

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Recipe: Local Ingredients at Cafe Estelle

Taste the homestyle flavor at this open-kitchen eateryby Stephanie Singer
On the evening that his grandmother, Estelle, passed away, Marshall Green told her that he would open a restaurant and name it after her. That promise was fulfilled on November 1, 2007, when Café Estelle opened its doors. Located between Spring Garden and Callowhill Streets, the

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