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Mac and cheese with spinach, zucchini and peas.
Here’s a good Meatless Monday option for you: good ol’ mac and cheese, lightened up with a whole bunch of green vegetables. Now, when I say, ‘lightened up,’ don’t think this is a low-fat dish; it has...
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Pasta with shrimp and vegetables.
When Rob and I travel, we typically prefer to stay in a rental home so we can cook for ourselves. Cooking, for us, is relaxing, joyful, creative, satisfying—and we enjoy preparing dinners with local...
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Pasta with kale, bacon and fontina.
Why, exactly, is kale such a celebrity these days? Seriously, I’d like to figure out how to track such things, because it strikes me as remarkable that this leafy green vegetable, used for centuries as...
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Your top recipes of 2012.
Inspired by a food website I admire quite a bit, Food52, I thought I’d do a roundup of YOUR favorite recipes from 2012. These are the most popular recipes that fellow bloggers and readers liked here on...
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Cheesy pasta with arugula and mushrooms.
In our basement, I have a decade’s worth of Bon Appetit magazines dating back to our early married life. [This was a long time ago.] The magazine was an essential guidebook as I adapted what I’d...
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Fabulous wild rice salad with chicken.
I know: Salad for dinner. It just sounds so, I dunno, uninspiring. But I love a really hearty salad for dinner—one that’s full of flavor, texture (um, and maybe a bit of cheese) along with greens and...
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Simple pasta with vegetables.
Simple is harder than it looks. So said Chef Michael Paley of Cincinnati’s new Metropole restaurant when I interviewed him recently for an Edible Ohio Valley profile. And generally, I agree that when...
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Try this: How to toast pasta.
Have you ever enjoyed toasted pasta? Toasting takes this staple ingredient into a different stratosphere. The Italian specialty fregola sarda—little pearl pasta toasted to a rich golden brown—was my...
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Pasta with zucchini, pine nuts and Parmesan.
Years ago (in 2004—that counts for years ago in the blogosphere), Clotilde Dusoulier posted on her Chocolate & Zucchini blog a recipe that absolutely caught my eye because of her description: On a...
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Recent favorites.
Looking for a new chocolate chip cookie recipe to try? Need a lovely salad recipe for dinner? Want a pasta recipe that’s cheesy and comforting? Look no further. Here’s a quick roundup of my very...
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Eating locally abroad: Cooking in Italy.
I’m working on just a couple of hours of sleep; our lovely vacation to Italy came to an abrupt end with endless delays at JFK in NYC that got us home and into bed at 2:30 this morning. (It’s a...
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Pasta with potatoes, beans and pesto.
How beautiful is this disc-shaped pasta? It’s called croxetti, and the pieces resemble thin silver dollars; they’re stamped with lovely designs including a coat of arms and a sheaf of wheat. Croxetti...
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Spiced yellow cherry tomato pasta sauce.
I first spied this tomato sauce recipe, with its unexpected combination of dried spices and fresh herbs, in Bon Appetit last summer. I cut the recipe out of the magazine and pinned it to the bulletin...
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With cherry tomatoes abundant in my garden (and at farmers' markets), I'm loving this tomato sauce recipe with its warm spices and fresh herbs. Get the recipe. Continue reading →
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