Parmesan Cheese Puh-lease!

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Do you ever create your dinner around one ingredient? I do this all the time. Often a teeny ingredient will inspire my entire dinner. Tonight that ingredient was Parmesan cheese. I’m not sure what spawned this random craving for Parmesan cheese, but I’m blaming the fact that I forgot to put any cheese on myContinue Reading …

Acorn Squash Salad

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Is a salad a salad without lettuce or leaves? I’m thinking yes because there’s chicken salad, tuna salad, fruit salad… all without lettuce. Therefore my lunch today merits the term “salad.” The base of my salad was a roasted acorn squash. Last night as I was makin’ pasta for dinner, I let the squash roastContinue Reading …

Pre-Thanksgiving Cranberry Joy

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Cranberry sauce is one of my favorite dishes on Thanksgiving. It’s also delicious as a spread on leftover turkey sandwiches with cream cheese (if you’ve never tried this, you must). What’s your favorite Thanksgiving dish? This week I impulsively bought a bag of cranberries at the grocery store when a random idea popped in myContinue Reading …