Up the flavor when you leave out the meat

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December 31, 1969

Up the flavor when you leave out the meat

– JIM ROMANOFF The Associated Press Serving dinner to mixed company — vegetarians and meat eaters, that is — can be a tricky affair. Hearty pasta dishes are your easiest path to culinary harmony. Bow-tie pasta with rapini and chickpeas is a fine option for several reasons. First, the rapini (also called broccoli raab, a […]
Published
December 31, 1969

HEALTHY PLATE: Consider fruit at the dinner table

– BC-US-FEA–Food-Healthy-Strawberry Chicken,0557 HEALTHY PLATE: Consider fruit at the dinner table AP Photo NYLS132, NYLS133 By JIM ROMANOFF For The Associated Press If you found it hard to get the five daily servings of produce you’ve been told for years you need, you’ll probably find it even harder to get the nine serving experts now […]
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December 31, 1969

Easy mac-n-cheese you won’t feel bad about serving

– BC-US-FEA–Food-Deadline-Mac and Cheese,0362 Easy mac-n-cheese you won’t feel bad about serving AP Photo NYLS108, NYLS107 By J.M. HIRSCH AP Food Editor A great mac and cheese can be easy. And healthy. The secret? Whole-wheat pasta shells and a can of squash or pumpkin puree. The latter ingredient may sound odd, but it really is […]
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December 31, 1969

‘Predator’ plays to the human obsession with things that go bump in the night

– LEWIS BEALE McClatchy Newspapers Bacon and eggs. Stripes and solids. Lennon and McCartney. All perfect matches. And at the multiplex, there’s at least one combo that can’t be beat: Science fiction and horror. That’s right. If you’re looking for a solid case of the creepy-crawlies, nothing tops a flick in which some extraterrestrial slime […]
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December 31, 1969

The woman behind The Kids’: Lisa Cholodenko’s pro-family comedy with a difference

– MICHAEL PHILLIPS McClatchy Newspapers CHICAGO – A movie is made up of a thousand details. Take, for example, the “numb tongue” story in the coming comedy-drama, “The Kids Are All Right.” The story comes from co-writer and director Lisa Cholodenko’s own mouth. “In my 20s,” she says, “I had some weird episode, this weird […]

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December 31, 1969

Shyamalan targets kid crowd with Nickelodeon’s ‘Airbender’

– CLAUDIA ELLER McClatchy Newspapers M. Night Shyamalan, the director who became a prodigal Hollywood success with his haunting stories of the supernatural before stumbling badly with his past two pictures, hopes to stage a comeback with a movie involving two giants of the consumer experience: Nickelodeon and McDonald’s. Shyamalan’s latest film, “The Last Airbender,” […]
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December 31, 1969

Designers build a better niche: Online furniture sales

Business website design didn't pay that well, but two creatives found that online furniture sales did.
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December 31, 1969

Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work’

– CHRISTOPHER KELLY McClatchy Newspapers Razor-sharp social satirist or over-the-top loudmouth? Plastic surgery freak or glamorous old-school diva? Hilarious or desperately unfunny? Regardless of what you think of the legendary comic Joan Rivers, the new documentary “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work” lives up to its title — it’s one of the best movies ever […]
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December 31, 1969

Testimony hints of killing motive: victim’s affair

– TREVOR MAXWELL Staff Writer ALFRED – Prosecutors claim that Darlene George of Old Orchard Beach plotted her husband’s murder in June 2008 because she didn’t want to split the properties they owned, and because he was having an affair with a co-worker. That co-worker, 30-year-old Amy Casey of Lebanon, took the stand Tuesday in […]
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December 31, 1969

New HBO documentary exposes gas drilling hazards

– BC-US–TV-Gasland, 1st Ld-Writethru,0865 New HBO documentary exposes gas drilling hazards Eds: Corrects spelling of hippie. Moving on financial and entertainment services. AP Photo NYET173, NYET172 By MICHAEL RUBINKAM Associated Press Writer MILANVILLE, Pa. (AP) – What do you do when a gas company offers nearly $100,000 for the right to drill on your land? […]

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