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Bacon-Roasted Buttercup Squash with Rosemary Honey

This recipe for Bacon-roasted Buttercup Squash with Rosemary Honey is your gateway dish into seeing winter squash as a source of delight, not duty. Honest!!! What Can I Cook with a Winter Squash? My CSA provided me with a winter squash that I’d never cooked with before, and quite honestly, didn’t know the name of. …

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Salad with Navy Beans, Goat Cheese, Cherry Tomatoes, Croutons, and Warm Bacon Dressing

My Salad with Navy Beans, Goat Cheese, Grape Tomatoes and Warm Bacon Vinaigrette is a light summer dinner recipe. It’s more of a meal than a salad. After all, in the dog days of summer, isn’t it wonderful to have a nice, cool salad for dinner sometimes? This one’s so good, you’l want to enjoy …

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Loaded Baked Potato Leek Soup with Bacon

This recipe for Loaded Baked Potato Leek Soup with Bacon is better than most recipes I’ve seen for Potato Soup, because it has LEEKS in it. Leeks are my husband’s favorite: they lend a subtle  sweet under-note to this outrageously rich, delicious, savory soup.    My Irish Root(s) Vegetable Loaded Baked Potato Leek Soup with …

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Perciatelli all’Amatriciana: Best Pasta EVER

Perciatelli all’Amatriciana is the best pasta I have ever had in my life. BUT: I can hear you now, from clear over here, in the Boonies. A whole lot of you are saying: “What the ____ is perciatelli?” (Unless you’re Italian. Or a chef. Or, for whatever the reason, you really know your pasta.) What …

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Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon

This Apple-Pear Salad with Maple Pecan Bacon is the perfect salad for Thanksgiving. Apples, pears, grapes, salad greens, with Maple Pecan Bacon, drizzled with a cranberry vinaigrette! How I Discovered This Apple-Pear Salad I went to a slumber party with my wonderful girlfriends, and came home with the salad of my dreams: Apple-Pear Salad with …

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