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Ok it’s been back to work for me and thus the time I have to cook is decreased considerably. Hello, Crock-Pot, whom I have been ignoring a bit lately, in favor of grilling. Crock-Pots are great for summer too though, keeping the kitchen nice and cool as the wonderful smells drift through the air.
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D’Andrea’s was a small Italian deli in a storefront tucked into one end of an aging ’50s era strip mall in Berwyn, IL (Cermak Plaza, made famous in the movie Wayne’s World) that served the most delicious home-style Italian foods — homemade sausage, lasagna, sub sandwiches, mostacolli, olive salads, meatballs, pepper salads and more, all [...]
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This macaroni and cheese recipe tastes very rich, one of the best mac ‘n cheese dishes I’ve ever had, although I must admit that 95% of my mac and cheese experience is from those familiar blue boxes. The kids have always loved the boxed stuff, it’s always on sale, and it’s always easy, so the [...]
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These simple sesame noodles are a cool and refreshing summer dish with a lot of sesame flavor. They are great on their own or served as a side with teriyaki kebabs or other Asian main dish.
I fell in love with this dish at pot-lucks and went searching for a a recipe online, looking for the [...]
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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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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 [...]
