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I use my grill at least once a week in good weather, and I have pizza at least once a week in ANY weather — so why have I never put the two together? I think I suffered from an irrational fear: FOPFTTG — or Fear Of Pizza Falling Through The Grates. Losing a hot [...]
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This recipe is a simple pasta with marinara, but the addition of the puffed mozzarella makes it special. The mozzarella is simply cubed and tossed with the warm ziti and sauce and puffs into soft gooey chunks that are delicious.
The idea for this recipe came from a newspaper article about 20 years ago with the [...]
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I love asparagus and right now there is lots of great-looking asparagus in the stores. Living in Chicago, I have to wait a few weeks at least before I can get locally-grown fresh asparagus, but the pencil-thin stalks at the grocery store (from Mexico) right now are irresistible, so I picked up a few pounds [...]
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This is a delicious, light but robust-tasting soup that is quick to prepare and cook. This recipe originally comes from a restaurant where I worked while going to college. No, it was not a dark Italian place, but a private restaurant, Room 500, at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, which was filled with hundreds [...]
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I used to top pasta with jarred commercial sauce because it was so easy, but then I started making my own sauce from canned tomatoes because it was almost as easy and tastes so much better and fresher than commercial jarred sauces. Even the “healthy” jarred sauces tend to use a lot of sugar, which [...]
