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Today we have a guest poster! We’ve got two great recipes below from Stephanie O’Dea over at A Year of CrockPotting. Last year, she made a New Years resolution to use her CrockPot every day in 2008 and to keep a blog outlining her adventure. I’ve become horribly addicted to her site, [...]

I’m Italian and my grandma never made me Italian hazelnut cookies! No fair!
A few weeks ago I was flipping through the newest issue of EatingWell and came upon an article by an author whose father grew up in the Piedmont region of Italy. Also an Italian longing for connection to my roots, I [...]

A few weeks ago I posted a review of Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift’s How to Eat Supper, so I figured what better place to start the 10^2+1 Cookbook Project? I plunked the book down on my lap, gave the pages a flip, and landed on this recipe for Pasta with Chopping Board [...]

For the past few weeks, I’ve been eyeing Lynne Rossetto Kasper and Sally Swift’s newest book, “The Splendid Table’s How to Eat Supper: Recipes, Stories, and Opinions” (2008, Clarkson Potter, $35). I’d flipped through it a few times at my local independent bookstore, but I was determined to not cave in to my little compulsion issue. After the third or forth time I’d picked it up, though, I realized that the book and I seemed to have developed a relationship, and that I was no longer in “whim territory.” I finally plunked down the $35 (ouch) and introduced this little gem to its new home, the precariously stacked pile of cookbooks in my office.

This recipe started life as an experiment and ended up a staple at our house. My original intention was to create a risotto-like consistency with brown rice in my pressure cooker, and by not rinsing the rice before cooking it, it does indeed get starchier than it normally would. Brown rice will never [...]