Pickles by next weekend.

Pack the jar with cucumbers and salt brine. A few days on the counter turns them into real deli pickles.

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Hands cradling a golden scored sourdough boule on a marble surface

Bake bread

Bagels, sourdough, pretzels
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Bake sweets

Doughnuts, cinnamon rolls, pastry
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Ferment

Hot sauce, pickles, sauerkraut, kimchi
Hands shaping cavatelli pasta on a ridged gnocchi board

Cook

Pasta, ravioli, pizza
Checking milk temperature in a pot with a thermometer for cheese making

Make cheese

Ricotta, mozzarella, burrata
Pouring kombucha into a jar of strawberries, basil and lemon peel

Brew

Kombucha, cider

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  1. Garden focaccia decorated with rows of halved cherry tomatoes and fresh herb sprigs, seen from above

    Baking

    Garden Focaccia

    Turn a pan of garlic herb focaccia dough into an edible garden with cherry tomato flowers and fresh herb stems.
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    Ricotta & Broccoli Rabe Tart from Vegetables the Italian Way

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    Ramp Butter

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    Joshua McFadden's Butternut Squash with Sausage, Sage & Spicy Chiles from Six Seasons of Pasta

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    Honeydew's cool sweetness meets fermented heat in this unexpectedly balanced sauce.
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Garden focaccia decorated with rows of halved cherry tomatoes and fresh herb sprigs, seen from above

Baking

Garden Focaccia

Turn a pan of garlic herb focaccia dough into an edible garden with cherry tomato flowers and fresh herb stems.

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A ricotta and broccoli rabe tart with a golden lattice crust, the bright green filling visible through the weave.

Ricotta & Broccoli Rabe Tart from Vegetables the Italian Way
A log of bright green ramp butter on parchment paper, with three thick coins sliced off, a torn baguette, and two bread slices already spread with ramp butter on a marble surface.

Ramp Butter

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