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Real Life Kitchen

Recipe: Chef Matt Talavera's Heirloom Tomato Prawn Salad
Whole Foods jumps into the antics of the strangely crazed Heirloom Tomato Festival.

Recipe: Blackberry summer
Pie, trifle, lore and rambles on the brambles.

Recipe: Making the Ultimate Potato Salad
Pssst: The key is not to boil the potatoes.

Recipe: Breakfast Pizza is the way to go for Mother's Day
Simple instructions for constructing this edible jazz poem, one sure to make Mom puzzle and smile.

Recipe: Barley Risotto
Sara Bir's Real-Life Kitchen learns to love hulled barley.

Real-Life Kitchen: Haloumi
Sheep's milk cheese is available at local specialty markets.

Chocolate Cookbooks
Valentine's Day gifts for chocoholics.

Real-Life Kitchen
Nine Simple Ways to Be a Better Cook.

Real-Life Kitchen
Presto Pesto.

Real-Life Kitchen
Consider the Oysters.

Real-Life Kitchen
Cran-tastic!


Recipes for food that you can actually make. Honest. No, really. You can.