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Cut each piece of cauliflower into tiny florets. Use a small, sharp paring knife, and take your time. The rest of the recipe goes quickly. For a complete meal, serve with cooked brown rice and tofu. Recipe reprinted with permission from Ripe: A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables © 2012 by Cheryl Sternman Rule, photography by Paulette Philipot Running Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group. Read More→
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Celery is used twice in this dish: softened in the beginning with a little olive oil, and tossed in at the end for a decisive crunch. You may substitute traditional couscous for the whole wheat and brown or green lentils for the black ones. (The black ones are especially pretty, though.) Recipe reprinted with permission from Ripe: A Fresh, Colorful Approach to Fruits and Vegetables © 2012 by Cheryl Sternman Rule, photography by Paulette Philipot Running Press, a member of the Perseus Book Group. Read More→
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Poppy Cannon was a well-known food editor and cookbook author in the 1950s. She was best known for her shortcut recipes that used canned goods and other “wonderstuffs,” as she called them, but this recipe relies only on fresh, real ingredients —a rarity for her. This delicious recipe for escarole, a gently bitter leafy green (whose bitterness is mellowed with cooking) is adapted from one of her later books, The Electric Epicure (1961). Read More→
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This delightful pasta dish, filled with roasted veggies, will pique your senses. Make it for a family dinner, buffet entrée, or potluck dish. It could even make a great barbecue side dish, if you cook the veggies on the grill instead of in the oven. Adapted from Pasta East to West by Nava Atlas.
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I first heard of this dish from a friend whose Italian mother-in-law makes it regularly. Always one to go for hearty and offbeat combinations, I couldn’t wait to try it. This is a filling dish, and you’ll need only a simple salad and a green vegetable such as broccoli to make a satisfying meal. Read More→
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Swiss chard is a beloved kitchen-garden vegetable in Italian cuisine. Combined with white beans and tomatoes, this stick-to-your-ribs dish will satisfy the heartiest of appetites.
“Marriage…is not merely sharing one’s fettuccine, but sharing the burden of finding the fettuccine restaurant in the first place.”
—Calvin Trillin Read More→
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Pappardelle are long, ripple-edged noodles. If you can’t find them, substitute fettuccine. But whichever you end up using it doesn’t matter, this rich, delicious dish will be everything you wanted it to be.
“The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you’re hungry again.” —George Miller
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Characteristic of some Southeast Asian cuisines is the overlapping of Oriental and Indian influences. This is true here in this tasty and pleasantly offbeat noodle dish that is seasoned with both soy sauce and curry.
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