Use this spread to top crackers, dip vegetables into, or as an addition to sandwiches.
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Green Plate Special: A fool for fools? Who can blame you?
This centuries-old English dessert is not only simple and delicious, but it’s also an excellent vehicle for using up leftover fruits, jams, syrups and other bits and bobs from your refrigerator and pantry.
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Of all the cakes she’s baked, there’s just one this cookbook writer makes for Passover
Elinor Klivans wrote 14 baking books from her home in Camden. But for Passover there is just a single dessert: Mom’s Walnut and Wine Passover Cake.
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Cabbage with noodles and dill evokes cozy memories of grandma’s cooking
But update her dish with a few touches to make it more in line with how we cook now.
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Avoid wasting bread by making the freezer your friend
Sliced bread freezes beautifully, and is always at hand when you need it.
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A Scottish chicken soup with a cheeky name for chilly spring nights
Cock-a Leekie takes humble ingredients – barley, chicken, carrots – and transforms them into a soothing, nourishing meal.
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Cabbage with noodles and dill evokes cozy memories of grandma’s cooking
This dish is more than comfort food to me. It’s like coming home, ringing of the flavors and aromas of my grandmother’s kitchen where she served up bowls of egg noodles with butter, braised cabbage, soups wafting with dill, and a dollop of sour cream on just about anything. She branched out often with dishes […]
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Green Plate Special: For plant-based meats to truly make a difference, they must be locally sourced
Tofu and tempeh made in Maine with soybeans from local farms are the best options for environmental benefit.
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This mushroom fettuccine channels Italy and the best pasta I ever had
When the plate of pasta landed at the table, it was so plain that if I were anywhere else, I would have been skeptical if not outright disappointed. But I was in Florence, having my first meal of my first trip to Italy, so I never strayed from optimism. Even now, months later, when I […]
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Dig into Chicken Marengo, a saucy dish inspired by Napoleon himself
Rich, spirited Chicken Marengo comes with a fanciful tale about the world-famous general.