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Nigella and Pasta
Nigella Lawson is my favorite TV chef. Not just because she is pretty and has a cool accent, but because she’s hysterically funny and loves eating and sharing food. When I think of Nigella, I...
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White Bean-Tomato Gratin
I love to use tomatoes when they’re perfectly red and ripe during the summer months when my garden is behaving properly. I probably overuse them, in fact, because I love tomatoes so much. Sometimes...
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Got Stale Bread?
Got stale bread? Make panzanella! Panzanella is an Italian salad made with stale, or at the very least, leftover bread, and you wouldn’t believe how wonderful it is. I’m sure its origins are...
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Too Many Jalapeños?
If you like to cook and garden like I do, then you probably grow a variety of chile peppers. It doesn’t take but a couple of pepper plants to keep a family stocked with fresh chiles, but I always plant...
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Trottole Trapanese
This is a pasta post, based on my discovering the cutest twirly pasta ever, called Trottole. I purchased the spinach variety, for color. As is my pattern, apparently, I purchase a unique pasta, then...
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Smoked Trout Salad
When my husband went on an Alaskan fishing trip in 2019, he brought home trout as well as the expected salmon. I really had to think about what to do with the trout. I’ve fished for trout often over...
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Green Goddess Chicken Salad
I discovered this recipe at the Food and Wine website. It’s a recipe for a salad with green goddess dressing, by Melissa Rubel Jacobson. Green goddess is a really wonderful dressing that uses lots of...
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Corn-Tomato Salad with Tapenade
Did I need another French cookbook? A resounding NO, but when I read about this one, Dinner in French by Melissa Clark, published in 2020, I knew I would love it. I love personal stories, so the...
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Prawn and Tomato Stew
I was gifted the cookbook Falastin by a dear friend, and I’ve already made many recipes from it. The authors are Sami Tamimi and Tara Wigley, and the book is all about the food of Palestine, published...
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Stir Fried Noodles with Shrimp
A while back, I posted on David Chang’s Bacon-Fried Rice recipe, which I found in a People magazine, of all things. It’s a fairly classic stir-fried rice recipe, but starts with cooking diced bacon and...
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Panzanella
Got stale bread? Make panzanella! Panzanella is an Italian salad made with stale, or at the very least, leftover bread, and you wouldn’t believe how wonderful it is. I’m sure its origins are...
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Too Many Jalapeños?
If you like to cook and garden like I do, then you probably grow a variety of chile peppers. It doesn’t take but a couple of pepper plants to keep a family stocked with fresh chiles, but I always plant...
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Brown Derby Vinaigrette
It all started when my husband and I went to a recently opened restaurant in town – Bricktown Brewery. It’s not a real brewery, at least not at this location, but we thought we’d give it a chance. We...
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Garlicky Puttanesca Pasta Salad
I spotted this recipe on the Food and Wine website – a recipe by Ann Taylor Pittman, published on 08-2019. Just the word “puttanesca” got my attention since it’s probably my favorite pasta if I was...
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Crab and Corn Salad
As you can maybe tell from the photo below, this recipe was published in McCall’s magazine in 1997. My mother had always subscribed to McCall’s magazine, and I just recently found this torn page at her...
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Cherry Salad
I follow a chef’s videos on Instagram named John Gregory-Smith. I didn’t even know he was a chef – I just thought he was a guy who loves cooking. It turns out that he’s written 7 cookbooks! I’d buy one...
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Grilled Prawn, Corn, and Tomato Salad
I could eat a salad a day, and throughout the years I pretty much have, even in winter. The ones I make are typically lettuce-based, like Romaine or butter lettuce, and then I add vegetables, avocado...
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Baked Polenta with Za’atar Tomatoes
This Ottolenghi recipe comes from OTK – the Ottolenghi Test Kitchen “Extra Good Things.” (There are other OTK cookbooks.) There’s a good video of the recipe being made online here. The full name is...
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