Locavore odds and ends: My recommendations for Center City Restaurant Week and more

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A few years ago, someone put forth the theory that the third Monday in January is the most depressing day of the year. The weather is usually poor. Holiday bills are starting to arrive in the mail. New Year’s Resolutions are being broken left and right. We’re coming up to that Monday, and if the [...]

Make this: Spicy Walnut Apple Butter Pork Loin

recipe for pork tenderloin

There are many lessons that those of us of a certain age learned from “The Brady Bunch.” One  is that pork and apples go together. (Can’t you just see Peter in his reporter hat and hear him say “pork chops and applesauce?”) So when I went looking for a recipe for a pork tenderloin that [...]

Make this: Slow cooker venison stew

Venison Stew

Last spring, my uncle brought me a venison shoulder roast from deer hunting season. I put it in the freezer, and I never got around to doing anything with it. Over the weekend, I renewed my commitment to waste less food (for about the 100th time), and I decided I was going to pull the [...]