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Don’t tease the underdog: Fettuccine with eggplant

July 18, 2011 By Katrina

Don’t tease the underdog: Fettuccine with eggplant

Eggplants are inherently funny little guys. They grow in the garden along with all the other squash-like things — think zucchinis, summer squash, cucumbers and the like — but they’re slightly stranger, quite a bit tougher and decidedly less popular because they look a bit too different. Actually they remind me of little Rudolph at…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains, Vegetarian Tagged With: cooking, dinner, eggplant, fettuccine with eggplant, food, fresh from the oven, lunch, pasta, Real Simple, spinach, summer food, summer recipes, vegetarian

You’re never too old for mac and cheese

April 29, 2011 By Katrina

You’re never too old for mac and cheese

Comfort foods are comfort foods for a reason. They warm you up, fill you up and make you all sorts of happy at the same time. With the weather getting warmer and the days getting busier, we haven’t been doing a lot of comfort-food making lately, but every once in a while, the tummy wants…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains, Vegetarian Tagged With: brunch, cauliflower, comfort food, cooking, dinner, macaroni and cheese, Real Simple, side dishes, vegetarian

Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.

April 18, 2011 By Katrina

Horseradish, I think we can be friends now.

What in the world did we do before Google? Remember in the olden days, when we’d have a question about something and had to dig around in the encyclopedia (or Encarta on the computer, for the high-tech folks), the dictionary or our own noggins to find the information we were looking for? Now when I’m…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: cooking, dill, Food52, horseradish, picnic foods, potato salad, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian

Hi ho, asparagus! ‘Tis the season

April 11, 2011 By Katrina

Hi ho, asparagus! ‘Tis the season

Asparagus is one of those vegetables that (prior to this pasta salad escapade) I only knew how to make one way: roasted in the oven with a dot of olive oil and a sprinkling of salt and pepper. It’s a simple method, but it’s always delicious and nearly foolproof. And it’s no secret that I…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: asparagus, fresh from the oven, healthy recipes, lemon, pasta salad, Real Simple, salad, side dishes, vegetarian

Amber’s Magic Salad

April 6, 2011 By Katrina

Amber’s Magic Salad

Sometimes our love for a particular food isn’t entirely explainable. Maybe it stems from a certain ingredient, the perfect texture or a favorite memory. Whatever the reason, it only takes a single bite to know when something has hit the spot. And once that spot is hit, the food adoration ensues. Amber whipped up this…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: brunch, healthy meals, lunch, mandarin oranges, salad, side dishes, spinach, vegetarian

Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.

April 1, 2011 By Katrina

Roasted carrots: Simple? Yes. Delicious? Definitely.

There is simple but profound nugget of wisdom I’ve discovered during this long, snowy wintertime of root vegetable eating: All root vegetables (and arguably any vegetable, for that matter) taste better roasted. Something lovely and miraculous happens when those chunks of vegetable goodness take a dive in olive oil, followed by a slight sprinkling of…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Most Popular, Vegetarian Tagged With: healthy snacks, roasted carrots, roasted vegetables, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian

Back to basics: Dill fingerling potatoes

February 24, 2011 By Katrina

Back to basics: Dill fingerling potatoes

In many ways, a potato is just that — a potato. It’s plain, starchy, simple and unpretentious. It doesn’t pretend to be fancy, require loads of prep work or demand an onslaught of unfamiliar ingredients to make it an edible dish. Potatoes are like the ultimate blank canvas, and it really only takes one or…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Vegetarian Tagged With: Barefood Contessa, cooking, dill, dill fingerling potatoes, Ina Garten, potatoes, recipes, side dishes, vegetarian

Vegetable Week: It’s like Shark Week, but healthier

February 18, 2011 By Katrina

Vegetable Week: It’s like Shark Week, but healthier

This week will go down in history as the week that Jared and I ate our weight in vegetables. OK, not really. But we made a mighty impressive effort, if I do say so myself. It all started with that veggie-filled garden minestrone soup earlier this week. Then there was Valentine’s Day dinner, which consisted…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Vegetarian Tagged With: cauliflower, food52.com, healthy recipes, recipes, roasted cauliflower, salads, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian

Project NYT: Garden minestrone

February 15, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Garden minestrone

There are some recipes that will confuse you from the very beginning. They’ll ask you to cook something on low when medium seems more logical. They’ll call for slicing and not dicing, when you know in your gut that the vegetables will never lose their crunch in a 20-minute cook time. They’ll give you strict…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Soups/Stews/Chili, Vegetarian Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, brunch, cooking, Essential New York Times Cookbook, garden minestrone, lunch, minestrone soup, Project NYT, side dishes, vegetarian

Winterizing summer favorites: Spanish roasted potato salad

February 3, 2011 By Katrina

Winterizing summer favorites: Spanish roasted potato salad

My Grandpa Smith is a jack-of-all-trades sort of guy. A general contractor by profession, he’s been building houses for years and years and knows his way around pretty much any tool or project that Bob Vila could throw at him. When I was 10 years old, he built an amazing set of furniture for my…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Salads, Vegetarian Tagged With: cooking, food52.com, potato salad, recipes, roasted potatoes, salads, side dishes

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