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How I Like to Roast Sweet Potatoes We roast cubed sweet potatoes in a bit of oil and salt ahead of time to toss in salads, frittatas, tacos and, of course, grain bowls like this one. Sweet potatoes pair well with many kinds of flavors from spicy chipotle to this combination, which includes cinnamon, allspice, and cloves, inspired by shawarma recipes. What I love about this blend is that it takes what we often think of as baking spices and uses them into a warm, savory way....

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Perhaps I love the fleeting nature of the produce, available for a few short months (or less, depending on the season or where you live). Or maybe it’s the vibrant red color of the stalks, which I just adore. Either way, I can’t wait to get my hands on it, and when it finally shows up, I buy it by the bagful. Strawberry-Rhubarb: A Classic Combo Strawberry and rhubarb are such a classic combination....

Basic Ingredients for Veggie Tacos I’ve made these for lunch for the last three days straight with summer squash, green chiles, tomatoes, and jalapeños from our garden. You can improvise with the vegetables, a little fresh corn would work great added in, or some cooked beans as well. We have fresh chiles, so I included them, you could always just add some salsa or jalapeño pickles to taste. Two Tips for Great Tacos The key to the overall taste is the addition at the end of cotija cheese, a Mexican cheese that is salty and crumbly, much like Greek feta....

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What Makes the Best Pot Roast? Pot roasts typically use the tougher cuts of beef—a chuck roast or shoulder roast—which have the most flavor. Slow cooking at low heat is what melts the tough connective tissue between the muscle fibers, leaving you with tender meat that pulls apart with your fork. For pot roasts, and other slow cooked tough meats, fat is your friend! Not only does fat deliver flavor, it helps keep the meat from drying out in the long slow cooking....

Check this out! My French sweetheart showed me this trick the other day that was so drop-dead easy, so obvious, so I-can’t-believe-I-didn’t-think-of-this, and so good, I’ve been eating my way through Parm rinds every day since. All you do is shave them to about a 1/2-inch, no less than 1/4-inch, thickness, spear them with a fork and toast them like marshmallows over a gas flame. Or if you have a broiler, pop them in the broiler....

Here’s one of our favorite recipes for using Thanksgiving turkey leftovers. With kidney beans (canned or homemade), tomato, bell pepper, garlic and loads of spices, this chili is terrific, and easy to make with leftover shredded turkey meat - especially the dark meat! You could also easily make this chili with cooked shredded chicken if no turkey leftovers are available. Turkey Chili for All Note that this turkey chili recipe makes a large pot of chili!...

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Baked Cod in Cream Sauce Fish is often overlooked when planning dinner, though we have no idea why. When prepared well, fish is incredibly delicious. It pairs well with rice and potato side dishes. This baked cod is one of the easiest fish dishes you can make, and easily one of the most delicious! You get perfectly flaky cod every time, and the cream sauce kicks it up to the next level....

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It didn’t take long for me to start experimenting with the sauce in vegetarian ways. One of my favorite combinations became buffalo cauliflower. These buffalo cauliflower tacos are the perfect vegan meal. Pan-frying the cauliflower helps soften the cauliflower just enough to lose the extreme crunch from raw cauliflower. However, the cauliflower still has enough texture that you’re not eating a mushy taco! What’s in the Buffalo Sauce? One of the main challenges with buffalo sauce and vegan eating is that buffalo sauce is traditionally made with butter and hot sauce....

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But then the heat wave of summer 2022 arrived, and I couldn’t fathom turning on my oven. Suddenly, the lightbulb went off. Hadn’t everyone been describing the air fryer as a small, powerful convection oven? I threw everything into it with shockingly successful results—my favorite of which is store-bought frozen dinner rolls. Air fryers cook food quickly and require very little time to preheat (if at all), so the frozen rolls cook in the air fryer in a flash....

Bean soup, liverwurst, salmon, and especially hot dogs and hamburgers would all be terrific with some pickled onions on the side. How to Make Pickled Red Onions All you really need to make pickled red onions is some sliced red onion, vinegar, and sugar. There’s lots of leeway with the spices and herbs used. Spices to Use in Pickled Red Onions For this batch, I used cinnamon, cloves, star anise, bay leaf, and red pepper flakes....

Looking over the land from several thousand feet up, one cannot but be struck by the patchwork of vivid shades of green below. Or driving through the countryside, especially in Western Ireland, the hills practically glow when the sun peeks through breaks in the clouds. We’ve been experimenting with parsnips lately, and on a whim tossed a large bunch of chopped parsley into a simmering pot of parsnip soup. Parsnips are naturally sweet, as are leeks, which are also part of this soup....

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