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Pasta With Roasted Vegetables (Potluck Portion!)
We always do an end-of-semester party with our students in our language immersion program; after all, when you spend 20 hours a week for 15 weeks with the same class, you get to know each other pretty...
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Quick Vegetable Soup for a Sick Day You Couldn’t Take
A few weeks ago I got bronchitis. I don’t get sick often, but sometimes you just pound it too hard and the body craps out. However, it was not the right time to take off from work, which statement is...
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Cold Rice Noodle Salad with Creamy Tahini
Rice noodles are cool. They start out all stiff and fragile and white and, after just three minutes in boiling water, they turn glassy and soft and a bit sticky. I love their texture and their look,...
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Albóndigas Variation (Meatballs: Eat some now, freeze some for later)
You would think that I came from hunger. I stockpile like a squirrel in autumn. (And like squirrels, I sometimes forget where the hell I stockpiled my treasures, but that is another matter for a day...
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Golden Tomato Pasta Sauce (freezeable! or make from frozen tomatoes…)
“Tis the season for the tomatoes to overwhelm. In fact, last year we were so overwhelmed that I had tomatoes in the freezer all winter. The texture isn’t as good as in the middle of summer, but the...
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“Mom. Blog This. Right Now.” (Leandro Makes His First Pesto and Wants You To...
It is high season for basil, which means high season for pesto. I forgot to pick up basil from the farm this week, but one of the neighbors’ friends, in gratitude for Sangría Night, sent some over from...
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Everything Must Go! How to make a mad-mixed pasta sauce to eat now/freeze for...
We are drowning in abundance. It happens every August if you garden or belong to a CSA; there are so many tomatoes, so many peppers, so much zucchini….it all gets lost in the fridge faster than you can...
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Pasta e piselli (Pasta with Ham and Peas)
These Northeastern storms (Sandy and the nor-easter) have brought out the darker side of humor in many of us, as in “What next: plagues of locusts? Frogs?” The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse seem to...
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Meatballs for Good Friends (and a full freezer) Part 1 (with cheese)
(Three hundredth post!!!!) Cooking a nice meal for both parents and kids does not have to involve making two separate dinners.Well, not exactly, anyway. I confess to getting cold feet halfway through...
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Shrimp Scampi (Shrimp in Garlic Wine Sauce)
“This is the best lunch ever, Mom, the King of All Lunches,” says Leandro, The King of All Understatements. The source of his enthusiasm was Shrimp Scampi (kind of an Americanized misnomer for an...
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Baked Cauliflower Macaroni and Cheese: Is there any pay-off in pandering to a...
This was not at all a sneak attack. This was a straightforward “Hey little dude, do you think you would like cauliflower if I made this recipe?” Oh, yes, yes, I would eat it up, it looks delicious,...
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Fish on Friday: Five More Fab Seafood Solutions
Spanish tapas: Mussels vinaigrette (make ‘em the night before) The last Friday in Lent is coming up. Why just pan-fry filets (again), when you could try some of these much more entertaining and tasty...
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Hearty Vegan Veggie Soup in Three Stunningly Simple Steps (plus non-vegan...
Is everyone’s family as kooky as mine? Wait, don’t answer that. But truly, when I look at how many different dishes we sometimes have at the same table, I do feel like we are more diner than...
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Cilantro & Parsley Pesto Variations With Queso Fresco and Without Nuts
We’re moving on up! I was invited to do a cooking demonstration recently at The Old Country Road School, a K-5 school in the Hicksville Union Free Public School District. The school was celebrating its...
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Pasta Frittata: A delicious solution for leftovers!
I recently had a delicious veggie-filled frittata during a boat trip with my friend, Chef Deborah Pittorino of The Greenporter Hotel in Long Island’s wine country. We ended up fishing for baby bluefish...
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Summer Tomato Recipe (or just chop fresh tomatoes over warm pasta and you’re...
We won’t be eating this light and fresh summer way much longer. The little man and I pulled out the tomato plants today. They could have stayed in a bit longer and we might have had a few more...
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Cheese: Fail. Pasta: Fail. Dishes: Broken. Thank goodness for Adriana’s Pesto
Adriana and I love cooking together. Our kids are very close in age and have known each other since the very beginning, so we get together for sleepovers that involve kid activities by day and then...
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Easy Steamed Clams for Me – Easy Linguine with Clam Sauce for the Kid
The problem: I want steamed clams. My dad wants steamed clams. My son won’t eat them. Nor will my mom. I don’t want to cook two meals, because as much as I like to cook, this is not a bloody...
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Spaghetti alla Carbonara with Peas (Fast, Easy, Delicious)
Spaghetti alla carbonara is one of those generous, forgiving dishes that doesn’t require too many ingredients, too much thought, or too much accuracy to be perfect and feel like a treat. In honor of...
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Sugar Snap Peas: Five Italian and Spanish Style Recipes You’ll Love
It is the season for sugar snap peas (Pisum sativum var. macrocarpon), and we have had a wonderful harvest of sugar snaps in our yard, and we expect more from Restoration Farm, our CSA. Almost too...
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