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Potato Salad with Grainy Mustard and Apple Cider Vinaigrette Recipe

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If you’ve spent any time on this blog, you know I love all things spud. I put potatoes in pastas. In soups and as soups. I put potatoes in dal. In the winter I mash, roast and fry them.
Summertime—when you look for ways to avoid heating up the kitchen—poses a challenge for tater addicts. When [...]

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From-Scratch Caesar Salad Dressing Recipe

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Chances are, your experience with Caesar salad dressing comes from a bottle or bistro.
Is it the dressing’s raw egg that home cook’s find daunting—or the scratch recipe’s long list of odd ingredients?
Or maybe the anchovy?
Let me assuage your fears. One at a time.
I manage my raw egg-salmonella anxiety by using cage-free eggs. Free roaming chickens [...]

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Creamy Ricotta Pie Recipe

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During Lent, the traditional period of fasting before Easter, several Copywriters’ Kitchen family members gave up sugar.
So naturally when the spring holiday liberated us from sugar privation, we wanted to indulge with as many rich sweets as possible.
This Creamy Ricotta Pie, with its ground almonds, minced candied fruit, whole-milk ricotta and heavy cream made the [...]

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Crispy Oven-Fried Potatoes

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You can whip up a plate of these crispy, spicy potatoes in 15 minutes flat. Perfect on a wintery Sunday afternoon with an ice-cold beer and the New York Times.
We don’t go out of our way to make “low-fat” food in the Copywriters’ Kitchen. I’d rather have a bite of something yummy than loads [...]

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Cocktail Hour at Copywriters’ Kitchen: Frozen Whiskey Sours and Savory Cheddar Wafers

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It’s Friday afternoon. Let’s be civilized, unplug all electronic devices and sit down for a proper cocktail.
I’m making frozen whiskey sours. They’re heavenly with the Savory Cheddar Wafers I just pulled from the oven.
Relax. Monday morning you can get up an hour earlier and check your Tweets. Work will, of course, be waiting. And the [...]

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Crunchy Oven-Toasted Croutons Recipe

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It’s hip to be cheap. Repurpose your day-old bread: Make these Crunchy Oven-Toasted Coutons for salads, soups and snacks.
Fashion’s fickle wheel cycles continuously and once more frugality is fashionable. Guess we’ve been ahead of our time for decades at Copywriters’ Kitchen where we always aim to save money and reduce food waste.
This recipe for Crunchy [...]

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Confessions of a Scratch Cook: “I Serve My Kids FAST Food.”

In our home, both parents work crazy hours and our teens juggle heavy homework, sports, music and far more exciting social lives than me or my husband. Busy as we are, our family somehow manages to gather around the table regularly for home-cooked meals.
In our own way.

Not Getting Things Done
If you’re like me, you haven’t [...]

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Rapido Mushroom Risotto

Purists may sneer at my one-pot risotto cooking method. You, however, will appreciate its rich flavor and 30-minute cooking time.
Rapido Mushoom Risotto is so easy and delicious, it may well become a regular feature on your family dinner rotation. But don’t let its painless preparation keep you from serving it to guests. Go ahead and [...]

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Arroyo Rice with Pinto Beans

“Arroyo” means ditch or gutter. This “dirty” rice is delicious alongside meat or tofu main courses. Or add more pintos and a thick slice of butter-slathered Custard Corn Bread and serve it as a main course.
2 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons grated onion
1 clove garlic, crushed
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon oregano
1 cup brown or white [...]

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