Pasta & Lentils
Lentils are supposed to bring you good luck for the new year, according to Italian tradition. This tradition goes back
Recipes
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Chitarra pasta cutter
This is our new toy – a chitarra pasta cutter. This pasta cutting tool comes from Abruzzo, Italy. The device
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Recipes
Fresh Pasta Dough
I’ve wanted to make fresh pasta for a long time. However, I was always intimidated by the thought of it
Slow cooked pork butt
This past weekend, we cooked a pork butt in the slow cooker. It’s a huge 8 lb piece of meat
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RecipesRoasted Rosemary Sweet Potatoes
We found a great bargain on sweet potatoes and stocked up on them. When we got home, we started looking
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Recipes
Homemade Green Bean Casserole – Classic Holiday Side Dish
This is our family’s version of green bean casserole — the first time we ever made it from scratch with
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Holiday & Entertaining, Recipes, Salads & Sides, Seasonal, Sides, Vegetarian / Veg-Forward
Tex-Mex Chorizo, Butternut Squash, and Jalapeno Cornbread Dressing
For nearly twenty years, Thanksgiving at our house has meant one thing — Uncle Brian and Uncle Curt’s smoked turkey
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Holiday & Entertaining, Recipes, Salads & Sides, Sides, Tex-Mex
Cornbread from scratch
Updated Nov 4, 2025: When I volunteered to make the cornbread for our Thanksgiving stuffing back in 2012, I thought
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Holiday & Entertaining, Recipes, Salads & Sides, Sides, Stocks, Basics & How-Tos
Simple Pie Crust (Pate Brisee)
It’s now two days before Thanksgiving, 2012. As usual, the paper has a story about pies so I am thinking,
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Desserts, Pizza & Dough, Recipes, Stocks, Basics & How-Tos
Cioppino – San Francisco Fish Stew
I’ll admit, I’d never had this fish stew. Maybe that’s because I haven’t been to San Francisco before and we
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Italian, Recipes, Seafood, Soups & Stews