It's asking a lot for any cooking enthusiast to eat at one of Bill Taibe's Connecticut restaurants without walking away inspired. Such was the case
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Recipes
Tomato and Mushroom Polenta Pie “Gratin”
Can you believe I'm on gratin number seven already?! I don't really buy the whole lucky numbers thing, but this tomato and mushroom polenta pie
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Southwest Sweet Potato and Egg Bake
For a while now, I've been wondering if my cheesy caramelized onion tart would still work if I used sweet potatoes instead of russets as the crust. I
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Chocolate Pudding Long John Doughnuts
My world got rocked a couple weekends ago. Aside from being the destined recipient of some tainted food or a stomach illness, I was, much more
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(Nothing But) Onion Gratin
It's snowing right now...again! Which makes it a little more tolerable that, as I write this, the weekend is coming to an end. It was a weekend filled
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Curried Lentil Salad
This curried lentil salad might be the easiest dinner recipe I've published to date. As my sister so candidly pointed out on FaceTime recently, most
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Step-by-Step Fluffy Sweet Potato Rolls
Big, juicy hamburgers veggie burgers and buns--they go together like peanut butter and jelly, right? So how rude of me to give you a veggie burger
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Swiss Chard Gratin and Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Sometimes when life gives you lemons, making lemonade isn't really in the cards.
I had a great weekend. A relaxing night at home with this chard
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Tex-Mex BBQ Black Bean Veggie Burgers
I won at dinner this week. First, there was eggplant stew with not one, not two, but three homemade sauces (see details below). Then there were the
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Essential Home Cookware and Spiced Eggplant Lentil Stew
Late last summer, as my sister was registering for her wedding, she called me to see what cookware she should add to her registry. I responded with a
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Golden Root Vegetable Gratin
My alternate name for this recipe is "bright and sunny root veg gratin". Really, how can you not cheer up and forget about the below zero wind chill
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Baked Parmesan Kale Puffs
My cheese drawer has been looking unusually sparse these days. It used to be chock full of bits of goat cheese, a half block of cheddar, and almost
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