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Shepherd’s Pie – A Classic Comfort Food
If I must choose one beloved dish that reminds me most of my childhood and family it would be Shepherd’s Pie. I would request it for my birthday dinners, when a celebration was in order, or when I just craved Mom’s home cooking.
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Spring Thyme Green Minestrone
Spring Thyme Green Minestrone Soup. When I looked into the eyes of my beautiful new fridge I saw shelves and drawers overflowing with ingredients that begged for a chance to play nicely together. The result of nonstop cooking for a week straight. Have you seen our March Meatball Madness posts??! When I studied the contents it became blatantly obvious that my fridge and my well-being needed a big pot of soup!
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Sausage & Mushroom Ragù
Sausage & Mushroom Ragù. This dish is incredibly satisfying. The mild Italian ground sausage is slow cooked with mushrooms, red wine and aromatics until the flavors melt together like your favorite comfort food.
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Pasta alla Norma {Eggplant Pasta}
Pasta alla Norma is an Italian pasta and eggplant dish with roots in the ancient port city of Catania, Sicily. My husband’s ancestors also have roots in Catania! Lucky for me it’s where we visited on a dream vacation a few years back.
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Steak & Potato Soup
Steak & Potato Soup was a sentimental entry, since it came from my husband Nick. With winter ragging across most of the country, I posed this question on Facebook: What is your favorite soup? I received a nice variety of responses, which included some of my favorite soups like Broccoli Cheddar and Italian Wedding and others that I had yet to recreate at home.
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Vegetarian Black Bean Chili
Vegetarian Black Bean Chili begins like many of our soup and chili recipes….with a medley of carrots, onions and celery. But that’s just the beginning of this flavor journey.
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Jamaican Vegetable Rundown
Jamaican Vegetable Rundown is a savory veggie stew simmered in luscious coconut milk. It was the perfect side dish for our Jamaican themed dinner.
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Southwest Vegetarian Tacos
The key to bringing big flavor to these Southwest Vegetarian Tacos is to oven roast the veggies. Virtually any vegetables will work in these tacos, but I love sweet potato, onion and zucchini as my base – I added corn and jalapeño to give it a nice Southwest flavor flare.
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Chipotle Salsa is Addicting
This Chipotle Salsa is super addicting!! We put in on everything from Carnitas to rice to homemade tortilla chips! For that matter it was the star of our Southwest Breakfast Tacos and Vegetarian Tacos!
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Quick & Easy Homemade Pasta Sauce
Quick & Easy Homemade Pasta Sauce comes together in under 30 minutes yet tastes like it’s been simmering all day.
