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Homemade cranberry granola

March 7, 2011 By Katrina

Homemade cranberry granola

Clearly, Jared and I have been feeling a little ’nola lately. Actually, it’s more like a let’s-use-up-what-we-have-in-the-pantry and a-little-granola’s-good-but-more-granola’s-better kind of feeling. We’re also on a semi-serious mission to only spring for the pre-made/boxed snacks and foods at the grocery store when we can’t make them ourselves in a reasonable amount of time (i.e., I…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Snacks Tagged With: baking, breakfast, brunch, cranberries, cranberry granola, Giada de Laurentiis, granola, healthy snacks, recipes, side dishes, snacks

Happy day food: Lemon spaghetti, a la Giada

March 3, 2011 By Katrina

Happy day food: Lemon spaghetti, a la Giada

Ah, lemon. Is there anything more fresh, more beautiful or more satisfying than a citrus-infused dish or dessert? I think not. A while back, Jared grabbed a gigantic sack of organic lemons from the grocery store; he figured we could put them to use before their time ran out. And use them we have (think…

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Filed Under: Fresh from the oven, Pasta/Rice/Grains Tagged With: cooking, dinner, Giada de Laurentiis, lemon, lemon spaghetti, recipes, side dishes, spaghetti, 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

Project NYT: Parmesan crackers, no boxes allowed

February 8, 2011 By Katrina

Project NYT: Parmesan crackers, no boxes allowed

In the short while since I started this blog, the words made from scratch have taken on such new meaning to me. It’s no longer just about following a recipe or venturing beyond the boxed cake mix. Rather, it’s about taking even the simplest of foods and reducing them to their bare bones ingredients: the…

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Filed Under: Appetizers/Sides, Fresh from the oven, Snacks Tagged With: Amanda Hesser, baking, brunch, cooking, new york times essential cookbook, Parmesan crackers, recipes, 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

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

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

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

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