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Category: Entree
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Back in the early days, well before the Internet was available, we relied on The Boston Globe for recipe ideas. We had just a few cookbooks in those days, so the Wednesday Food Edition of the Globe was the source of all things culinary. Who else remembers cutting recipes from the newspaper and gluing them…
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Whenever I see a recipe in the New York Times that has been developed by Ali Slagle, I know it will be stellar – easy to cook and delicious. This offering contributed by Ali to the New York Times Cooking Section last March is that and then some. This recipe is gifted from my subscription…
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This red lentil soup variation, shared by my sister, Molly, comes from “Once Upon a Chef” by Jenn Seagal. The addition of leftover veg makes a tasty contrast to the lentils, tomatoes and chickpeas, and the finished soup was a deliciously warming soup on a cold January evening. The recipe is freely available on her…
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What says I grew up in the 1960s more than a Sloppy Joe dinner? This recipe comes from my Mom’s recipe collection, although the ingredient list calling for Hunt’s tomato sauce seems to hint of at the origins. Feel free to substitute lower fat meat options like turkey or experiment with meatless proteins. The secret…
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My sister Molly, a terrific cook, adapted this recipe from a Cooking Light offering (March 2010), and it is really a delicious and quick pasta meal that includes veggies. Always a good idea to add veg to pasta. For this iteration, we used Casarecce pasta, pasta that originated in Sicily. Tossing the pasta in a…
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This is another delightful main from cookbook author and regular New York Times contributor, Yasmin Fahr. I’ll gift and link to the recipe, originally published in the Times here, but Yasmin Fahr also cross-posts links on her website. As I recently discovered, gifted NY Times recipes are available for a month, so if you are…
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This recipe comes from my younger sister, Ellen, and is a lifesaver for getting a great-tasting soup ready for dinner in less than 30 minutes. As Ellen suggests, keeping the basics in the pantry makes it easy to pull together – and since this recipe is very forgiving, adjustments can be made easily. No leftover…
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This lasagne recipe came from a church cookbook published sometime in the 1960s by St. Peter’s Church in my hometown of Huron, Ohio. Once my family discovered how much of a treat lasagne can be, it became our traditional dish to celebrate New Year’s Day for as long as I can remember. Flash forward to…
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This family recipe reminds me of colder weather: crisp Fall nights, frozen winters, and meatloaf with a baked potato. If our collective memory serves, this recipe came from the Quaker Oats container. While it can be made into individual loaves, which was probably the height of elegance for me, more often than not, one big…
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When we were helping my Mom at her condo recently, I came across several well-worn cookbooks with recipes I remembered from my childhood. More importantly was the discovery of two metal recipe card boxes filled with my Mom’s tried-and-true recipes. There, in her handwriting as well as that of my Aunt Eleanor and Grandmother, I…
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