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This is probably not your mom’s Italian Wedding Soup. And that’s OK.
Uh-oh, here we go again. Venturing into prime “You don’t know what you’re doing” territory. The land of “That isn’t the way my grandma did it so it’s wrong.” Dare I go here yet again? After much ado...
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Holiday baking traditions: Pierogi
Like many people I knew, my experience with pierogi was limited to the boxes purchased in the frozen foods aisle at the supermarket. Once or twice a year we’d buy a box saying, “Let’s try something...
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It’s easy being green: gnocchi with pesto
Have you ever enjoyed gnocchi? If not, get ready for a real treat. These fat little twists of potato pasta are a kinder, gentler example of the genre. Rather than cooking up like regular pasta – al...
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ZO handy! Cheese bread and baked pasta without the fuss.
If you’ve been reading this blog lately, you’ll know that 2 days ago I described the many reasons I love my test kitchen Zojirushi bread machine. I mean, I feel like Ron Popeil, the Ronco guy: “It...
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Let’s talk turkey (Tetrazzini): transforming holiday leftovers
The Easter ham. It’s not a given, you know. Just because everyone else serves ham (or, for real traditionalists, lamb) on Easter, the Food Police won’t come knocking at your door if you dare to defy...
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Heirloom Tomato and Fresh Pasta Salad: basically beautiful
As summer rapidly approaches (where did April go?), chat around the coffee machine has begun to revolve around one simple question… “What are you planting this year?” As you can guess from a bunch of...
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Gluten-Free Pasta: Mission ImPASTAble – noodle nightmares, never more
When I cooked store-bought gluten-free pasta for the first time, it was an unfortunate situation. I boiled the water, tossed in the spaghetti, briefly stirred it, then walked away. When I returned to...
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Fresh Herb Pasta: the taste of summer in Provence
What do alfabeto, funghini, lumaconi and strozzapreti have in common? New European fast cars? New European fashion models? New characters in a telenovela? Nope, keep guessing… OK, I just realized that...
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Savory Pumpkin Ravioli: pillows of perfect pumpkin
You all know how the old rhyme goes… “Peter, Peter, pumpkin eater, had a wife and couldn’t keep her. He put her in a pumpkin shell and there he kept her very well.” Curious minds want to know though,...
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Homemade Egg Noodles
What’s 35 minutes worth to you these days? For me, it’s worth so many things. It’s worth 35 minutes to drive to our favorite Asian restaurant, where the food comes out hot and fresh every time. We love...
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Chorizo with homemade pasta
And just like that, I have an empty nest. I mean, one day my daughter and her friends are splayed all over the couches and sleeping on the studio floor and the next day we’re saying good-bye to a...
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Sweet Potato Gnocchi
As the song and psalm go, there is a time to every purpose under heaven. Today I’m thinking there is a time to every dish and dinner as well, but the time you choose for it is always going to be your...
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Homemade Pasta
The last time homemade pasta was in vogue, I purchased both a hand-cranked machine, and an extruder attachment for my stand mixer. I played, I rolled, I boiled, and we ate. It was fun, but fairly labor...
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Preparing perfect pasta
Nothing says “comfort” to me like a big plate of pasta with butter, salt, pepper, and a bit of grated Parmesan cheese. Unless it’s pasta with alfredo sauce. Or fresh tomato sauce. Or maybe pasta with...
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This is probably not your mom’s Italian Wedding Soup. And that’s OK.
Uh-oh, here we go again. Venturing into prime “You don’t know what you’re doing” territory. The land of “That isn’t the way my grandma did it so it’s wrong.” Dare I go here yet again? After much ado...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Holiday baking traditions
Like many people I knew, my experience with pierogi was limited to the boxes purchased in the frozen foods aisle at the supermarket. Once or twice a year we’d buy a box saying, “Let’s try something...
View ArticleClik here to view.
It’s easy being green: gnocchi with pesto
Have you ever enjoyed gnocchi? If not, get ready for a real treat. These fat little twists of potato pasta are a kinder, gentler example of the genre. Rather than cooking up like regular pasta – al...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ZO handy! Cheese bread and baked pasta without the fuss.
If you’ve been reading this blog lately, you’ll know that 2 days ago I described the many reasons I love my test kitchen Zojirushi bread machine. I mean, I feel like Ron Popeil, the Ronco guy: “It...
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Let’s talk turkey (Tetrazzini): transforming holiday leftovers
The Easter ham. It’s not a given, you know. Just because everyone else serves ham (or, for real traditionalists, lamb) on Easter, the Food Police won’t come knocking at your door if you dare to defy...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Heirloom Tomato and Fresh Pasta Salad
As summer rapidly approaches (where did April go?), chat around the coffee machine has begun to revolve around one simple question… “What are you planting this year?” As you can guess from a bunch of...
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