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Pasta salad with summer vegetables and peppercorn dressing.
Some recipes or meals are born out of necessity: You have something on hand that you need to use up, so you get creative. That’s the genesis of this recipe for summer pasta salad with vegetables. I had...
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Spiced sun-gold tomato sauce.
I wish I could claim responsibility for this recipe; I clipped it from Bon Appetit. I drew five stars in Sharpie marker on the recipe after Rob and I made it last week. Seriously, this is the best...
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Improved summer corn and tomato pie.
This recipe for corn and tomato pie is something of a Frankenstein: a combination of three different recipes bolted together. It’s inspired by Smitten Kitchen’s tomato and corn pie recipe, combined...
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Creamy low-fat vegetable chowder.
I’ve been cooking summer’s best vegetables all kinds of different ways all season long (on pizza, in salads, in a skillet). The one thing I haven’t made—because it’s been so ridiculously hot—is...
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End-of-summer tomato sauce.
Yes, technically it is autumn. But farmers’ markets in our area are still hanging onto summer produce: I spotted corn, tomatoes, zucchini and beans holding their own among the winter squashes,...
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The Clara Project: cream of corn soup.
I originally published this recipe for cream of corn soup back in April as part of The Clara Project. And now, as fresh corn season reaches its bitter end here in the Midwest, it seems a fine time to...
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Beautiful fresh fig tart.
A few intrepid home gardeners here in the Midwest are growing fig trees — but largely, figs aren’t a super local ingredient around here. Still, I always grin when I spot California Black Mission or...
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Thanksgiving appetizer recipes.
We don’t host the big Thanksgiving Day dinner; instead we travel to share the meal with family, and bring along ample quantities of wine and pre-dinner snacks. Here’s some inspiration for planning your...
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Pasta with bacon, kale and Fontina.
I’ve long been a fan of Swiss chard; it grows beautifully (and easily) in my small backyard garden. I love its bright, almost citrus-y flavor and the way it pairs so beautifully with non-leafy...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Hermits.
One of the many reasons I love the Christmas season is that it presents the ideal opportunity for glorious, unfettered, too-many-to-fit-in-the-freezer cookie baking. So here at writes4food.com we’ll be...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Pecan snowball cookies.
I love the light, powdered-sugar pecan cookies that come around during the holidays (does anyone make these any other time of year?). They’re called Pecan Dreams, or sometimes Mexican Wedding Cookies...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: chocolate-nut meringues.
Snowy meringue cookies, with their airy, melt-in-your-mouth texture, are a staple of many holiday cookie platters. They just look sort of wintery. And their lightness is a nice counterpoint to the...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Spritz cookies.
I think of the Spritz cookie as the quintessential Christmas cookie. After all, when are you going to break out the cookie press if not during December? Buttery, with a light kiss of almond and a...
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Christmas Cookie-Palooza: Scandinavian almond bars.
Christmas cookie-baking has been a tradition in my family for as long as I can remember, and I have a notebook of old recipes that I return to year after year. Recently as I was thumbing through this...
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Favorite recipes of 2013.
Are you like me, scratching your head at the realization that a full year has unfolded? Again? How? At this time of year, we tend to get a little retrospective. Looking back and cataloging the...
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Healthy recipes for the new year.
I’ll admit it: I’m cookie’d out. Baked out. Ready to ditch the sweets and the too-many appetizers and the rich holiday food in favor of a lighter way of eating. Here’s a snapshot of some of my favorite...
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On the menu for 2014: a cookbook!
I suppose that many food writers and bloggers dream of writing a cookbook. I wasn’t one of them … until this summer. If you’ve been reading for a few months, you’re familiar with the Clara Project. An...
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Roasted winter vegetable soup.
In mid-December, we traveled to Chicago to visit my favorite neighborhood bakery anywhere: Baker & Nosh in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. It just so happens that it’s owned by my brother, Bill. In...
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10 great football party recipes.
Rob and I are huge football fans, so we don’t typically host a big bash for The Big Game … because, you know, we like to actually watch what happens on the field. But if you’re entertaining a gathering...
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Creamy overnight oatmeal with brown sugar bananas.
I love homemade granola (see here and here and here), and I’m also fond of its warmth-in-a-bowl cousin, oatmeal. Usually, I’ll throw together a pan of old-fashioned oats in the morning, but I recently...
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