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Chocolate-Peanut Chex Mix

Today we’re throwing a virtual baby shower for our dear friend and fellow blogger, Lisa Thiele from With Style and Grace. Lisa and her husband are just weeks away from welcoming a baby boy into the world and we couldn’t be more excited for them. Lisa is one of the warmest and most wonderful people I’ve ever met.

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Pappardelle with Roasted Butternut Squash and Ricotta

It had been a long time since I’d made fresh pasta. In the early 80’s, David gave me an electric Simac pasta machine for Christmas that we played with for awhile. It was an early version, and I remember the pasta quality was inconsistent—hard and dry at the beginning of the extrusion process, soft and

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Butternut Squash and Kidney Bean Chili

In her post Chickpea Curry-Topped Sweet Potatoes earlier this week, Maggy wrote about her commitment to eating as unprocessed as she possibly could in October. I love Maggy’s enthusiasm for doing the right thing. She jumps in, starts living the life, and sharing the truth. I’m different. Instead I listen to the facts and ponder  them

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Autumn Granola

It’s hard to believe that less than a year ago I was a chronic weekday breakfast-skipper. On the weekends I’d slowly savor eggs on toast or whole grain pancakes, but Monday through Friday I would wake up, harried and hurried, with nothing but black coffee in my belly as I sprinted out the door. “Yea,

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Chickpea Curry-Topped Sweet Potatoes

Mom has always been supportive of my food choices.  When I was thirteen and declared that I no longer wanted to eat meat, she didn’t throw her hands up and complain. We met in the middle: she agreed not to serve beef, lamb, or pork if I agreed to eat fish and fowl. And when I

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A Simpler Cassoulet

For PART I of this story, click here! It had been three months since our trip to France, and David’s birthday was in just a few days. Sharon was in town for the weekend and Maggy and Andy were coming out from New York. All the conditions were right for opening the second can of

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Betty’s Roast Duck Confit with Figs

It was mid June when our train pulled into Nice and Serge and Betty, our French friends of twenty-five years, were waiting for us. We had just come from Venice where we had stayed at a lovely hotel near Saint Stae. For four days we road the vaporetto down the serpentine canals and walked the

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Sesame Noodles with Vegetables

Our blogging friend Colleen from Souffle Bombay brought her Sesame Noodles to this year’s Big Summer Potluck. Days and even weeks after the event, I was still thinking about them! It’s not a complicated or fancy recipe, but ‘the simplicity is spot-on’ and most night’s that’s what we all need. Something homemade that’s simple, foolproof, and delicious.

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Braised Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic

For decades cooks have been making Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic like this: separate a couple of heads of garlic into cloves, stuff them into a chicken’s cavity, and then roast for an hour or so. Enclosed in the chicken pouch and its own papery casing, the garlic essentially stews during roasting and you

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Mediterranean Shrimp Stew

I’m happy to be sharing another of my shove-it-in-the-oven stews. I’ve already offered a sausage and bean stew and several chicken ones in this style, but today I’m sharing my latest—Mediterranean Shrimp Stew. Like all the other dishes in this style, Mediterranean Shrimp Stew starts with a large roasting pan. If you don’t have one

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