A tale of two sausages
It wasn’t unusual that LL and I were each reading last weekend. It was unusual, though, that at the exact same moment each of us reached a page in our respective books that contained a recipe. Recipes...
View ArticlePork ragu inspired by La Posta
Tomorrow is our 19th wedding anniversary – 19 truly blissful years of living a cozy family-centric life by the sea. I’m completely appreciative of this life and these years, because it wasn’t always...
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Grilled pizza how-to
Jack Prelutsky’s poem left me craving pizza. Thankfully spring is here, and once the crazy patchy April hail goes away I can brush off the barbecue and get busy grilling. Grilled pizza – yes. It might...
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Perfect pizza topping combinations
When we make pizza, less is always more; the cracker-thin pizza crusts we roll out won’t support a towering pile of ingredients. That said, however, more is always more; we generally prep a tremendous...
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Battle zucchini
Stick with me to the end and I’ll share some zucchini dinner ideas with you. After five days in St. Louis hanging out with mystery writers at Bouchercon, I came home with a recharged imagination and...
View ArticlePasta con broccoli recipe
Nights are getting longer and colder, and that means dinners are getting a little heartier and warmer. Since I was in a St. Louis state of mind yesterday, I thought about pasta con broccoli, made...
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Green beef or well-traveled cows?
I was making bolognese sauce and defrosted a packet of ground beef I’d purchased earlier in the month just for this purpose, having chosen the grass-fed, “organic” ground over the less expensive option...
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Caprese salad with chicken, penne, and pine nuts
A simple recipe for you today for this quick and easy caprese salad, a light dish for these longer hotter nights. The pine nuts are a nice touch, adding a crunchy earthiness and finishing the dish. 1...
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Crispy prosciutto and melon salad
This is an elegant twist on the quintessential Italian prosciutto e melone – crispy prosciutto tossed with melon chunks and garden mint and then drizzled with a lovely rich olive oil. The recipe came...
View ArticleFoolproof pizza dough recipe
Honestly, there's no such thing as "foolproof" pizza dough. As in any sort of baking, the temperature and humidity affect the texture and stickiness of the dough as well as the time to rise. But I've...
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