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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

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

Good things take time: Butternut squash risotto

February 4, 2011 By Katrina

Good things take time: Butternut squash risotto

Few acts in the kitchen can make an amateur cook feel quite as accomplished as the successful preparation of homemade risotto. For a single dish,  you get to chop, grate, season and sauté before spending 30-plus minutes standing over the stove while tending to your impending masterpiece. Yes, it’s more labor intensive than spaghetti or…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: brunch, butternut squash, butternut squash risotto, cooking, lunch, Real Simple, recipes, risotto, side dishes

Project NYT: What’s up, Butternut?

January 31, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: What’s up, Butternut?

Around our house (and probably a lot of yours, too), winter weather means soup weather. Fortunately, considering the piles of cold and snowiness we’ve been hit with this season, there’s no shortage of classics to pull out or new recipes to try. Whether it’s time-tested favorites like tomato or chicken noodle or new spins like…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Soups/Stews/Chili Tagged With: brunch, butternut squash soup, cooking, lunch, new york times essential cookbook, Project NYT, recipe, side dishes, soup

Project NYT: Rollin’ in dough

January 24, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Rollin’ in dough

For the past few years, my heart for pizza has been divided between two great loves: Shakespeare’s Pizza, the No. 1 college hangout here in Columbia (seriously, just ask Good Morning America) and Monetti’s Pizzeria Ristorante, a little Italian restaurant in my hometown of Warrensburg. One’s classic American fare, done right with fresh ingredients, and…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pizza/Sandwiches Tagged With: baking, dinner, homemade pizza dough, lunch, pizza, pizza crust, pizza dough, Project NYT, recipes

Project NYT: Lentil ginger soup

January 21, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Lentil ginger soup

Our snow day proved to be filled with all sorts of warm and cozy yesterday, with the snow day muffins starting the morning on a high note in all their cinnamon glory, followed by an evening of om-nom-nom-inducing soup that warmed us from the inside out. Nothing beats snow days and cozy nights. We should…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Soups/Stews/Chili Tagged With: cooking, dinner, ginger, lentil soup, lentils, lunch, Project NYT, soup

Secrets don’t make salads

January 18, 2011 By Katrina

Have you heard the story about the lady who, while shopping at Neiman Marcus in Dallas with her daughter, stopped into the café for a few chocolate chip cookies? According to the story, she loved the cookies so much, she asked for the recipe, to which the waitress replied, “Only two-fifty.” The woman agreed and…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: Avoca, brunch, chickpeas, dinner, lunch, recipes, red peppers, salad, side dishes, vegetarian

Project NYT: Tomato Soup I

January 11, 2011 By Katrina

For the past six months, Jared and I have been in search of a delicious homemade tomato soup. It sounds simple enough, right? Beyond the tomatoes, milk, salt and pepper, it didn’t seem like there could be much to the basic recipe. Of course, I’d spent at least a decade making tomato soup from a…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven Tagged With: cooking, lunch, New York Time Essential Cookbook, Project NYT, soup, tomato soup, vegetarian

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