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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

Tales from a 40-year-old plant: Rhubarb raspberry jam

June 30, 2011 By Katrina

Tales from a 40-year-old plant: Rhubarb raspberry jam

Every summer, my family road trips about 11 hours north from our home in Missouri to visit my grandma in a teeny town in Wisconsin, on the farm where my dad grew up. It’s one of those trips that we all look forward to every year, not just because it’s a chance to get away…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Jams/Jellies, Most Popular Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, cooking, dessert, fresh from the oven, jam, raspberry, rhubarb, rhubarb jam

For those who love the ‘shrooms

June 9, 2011 By Katrina

Mushrooms. They’re another one of those divisive little devils that can turn a dinner party on its head if you’re not careful. You might love them, fill your pastas with them and think they’re the cat’s pajamas. Or maybe, instead, you think of them as an all-too-close cousin of some sort of inedible invertebrate. If…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: cooking, dinner, easy recipes, food52.com, fresh from the oven, mushrooms, recipes, sauteed mushrooms, side dishes

Magic in the guesswork: Grandpa’s potato salad

May 9, 2011 By Katrina

When it comes to cooking, I’m pretty by-the-book. I like to follow recipes (at least the first time around). I like specific measurements and planned ingredients. I like to know what I’m getting into. If I come by this genetically, it doesn’t come from my mom. She’s much more of an in-the-moment kind of cook,…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: cooking, easy recipes, family recipes, picnic foods, potato salad, side dishes

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

I made meatloaf. Call in the parade!

April 20, 2011 By Katrina

I made meatloaf. Call in the parade!

On Earth Day (April 22, for those of you who don’t have your planet-saving plans in order yet), Jared and I will have been married for exactly three years and 10 months. During that time, which accounts for roughly 1,400 dinners, I have made exactly two meatloaves. I suppose that means that around our house,…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Meat/Eggs Tagged With: cooking, dinner, fresh from the oven, meat loaf, meatloaf, Parmesan meatloaf, Real Simple

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

Pasta and bean soup with kale

March 14, 2011 By Katrina

Pasta and bean soup with kale

In my rather brief stint as a kale eater, I’ve learned one very important fact about this greeny, leafy vegetable: Kale is a divisive little food. It seems like one of those love-it-or-hate-it things. You love it for its vitamins and overall good-for-you-ness but wish it tasted more like lettuce or spinach than it’s noticeably…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Soups/Stews/Chili Tagged With: brunch, cooking, Food52, kale, lunch, Merrill Stubbs, pasta and bean soup with kale, pinto beans, recipes, side dishes, soup

It’s the lazy (wo)man’s risotto: Creamy orzo

March 10, 2011 By Katrina

It’s the lazy (wo)man’s risotto: Creamy orzo

There’s a lot of new-recipe trying going on at our place these days. With everything from desserts to soups to entrees, my pre-grocery-shopping routine usually involves a good hour of cookbook and computer diving to the find a slew of new dishes we can take for a test drive. Some are great, some are so-so,…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: brunch, cooking, easy dinners, Giada de Laurentiis, lunch, orzo, recipes, vegetarian

Project NYT: Mark Bittman’s Real Ranch Dressing

March 8, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Mark Bittman’s Real Ranch Dressing

Five or so years ago, I was having a conversation with my brother about salad dressing nationality when I made the observation that our U.S.A.-made salads were in need of a little patriotism. Italy, France and Russia all have dressings bearing their names. “What about America?” I wondered out loud. “Why isn’t there an American…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Salads Tagged With: cooking, croutons, Essential New York Times Cookbook, homemade salad dressing, lunch, Project NYT, ranch dressing, recipes, salad dressing, side dishes, vegetarian

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