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Weeknight Tomato Sauce

January 3, 2021 by Amy Langrehr

WEEKNIGHT TOMATO SAUCE INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 medium onion, finely chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1/2 tsp coarse salt 1/4 tsp freshly ground pepper 1/4 cup tomato paste 1 can (28 ounces) tomato puree (I like smooth sauce, so I used pureed tomatoes) 2 TBSP of butter optional: basil or oregano ground beef …

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Homestyle Chicken Noodle Soup

December 2, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

  HOMESTYLE CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP INGREDIENTS 2 tablespoons olive oil 3 large carrots, peeled and sliced 2 stalks celery, sliced 1 medium yellow onion, peeled and diced 2 garlic cloves, minced 6 cups chicken stock 2 bay leaves 1 tsp fresh thyme (or 1/2 teaspoon dried thyme) 1 tsp fresh oregano or marjoram (or 1/2 …

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The Best Little Cooking Project You Will Do Over and Over

December 1, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

This is how my brain works. See a photo on Instagram. (The photo above, specifically.) Screenshot it. Think, “I need to figure out how to make that.” Forget the thing. Photo gets buried in others. A few months later, “Oh, yeahhhhhh.” That’s pretty accurate. And this time, I emailed Collin from (the amazing, locally sourced …

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These are a few of my favorite things.

November 23, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

Since March, like most people, I have been hunkering down at home. A lot. Very thankfully, I like where I live and as luck would have it, I rescued a wonderful senior dog in January. My girl Magnolia is an  11 year old terrier mix, spry for her age, a little nutty and definitely attached …

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In Search of New Food Inspiration

August 18, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

At first — after the Bon Appetit scandal news broke — I was somewhat conflicted. As a middle class, middle-aged white female home cook, I was totally in their target demographic. I had always liked getting the physical magazine in the mail. I’d look through it, dog-earing recipes I might like to — and almost …

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Sometimes you just have to start over

August 13, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

Friends and strangers alike have asked me things like, “why in the world did you scrap years of work in building an Instagram following as Charm City Cook?” or “but you ARE Charm City Cook, why walk away?” (and lots more in-depth, sometimes really awkward questions…) Here’s the thing. In the IG food world, 15,000 …

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The Sandwich of Summer

August 4, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

I’m not usually one to have very strong opinions about how a particular thing SHOULD be made. Rather, I think you should eat what you want, how you want. Except maybe for the BLT. So, yeah, I wouldn’t necessarily call them rules, but this is how I like mine. Cheap white bread. I like toasting …

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The path to a more open mind and kitchen

June 30, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

  If you know me — or at least the social media me — you know that Ina Garten taught me how to cook. And so did Martha Stewart, The Kitchn, America’s Test Kitchen, Mark Bittman, Julia Child and others. All white people. I never noticed that until recently, like really recently. And while they …

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Miss You.

April 27, 2020 by Amy Langrehr

I’ve been trying to wrap my head around this whole quarantine thing. Trying to write something meaningful or helpful. But I just keep writing sappy notes about the places and people I miss. So, I’m going with that. I miss Old Fashioneds at Lobo and Manhattans at Peter’s Inn, Negronis at Sugarvale. Martinis at La …

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