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There are a handful of recipes out there that people think are extremely hard to make, and it’s just not so. One of those is homemade cake — not hard, just a little time consuming. Another is pesto — quick, …

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Recently, I decided that I wanted to make a spaghetti squash for dinner. But I wanted to do something different with it than using it as a base for red sauce. So I decided I wanted to make pesto. I’ve …

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I am including this recipe as a Cucina Fresca recipe because I think that people should know it’s super easy to make, and doesn’t need to be so fancy like it is over at Foodnetwork.com. It’s not that I don’t …

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I must say that eggplant pinwheels went much better the second time around! Reasons the second time was more successful include: a) a video chat with Corelyn pre-cooking to discuss b) nowhere to be, nothing to do c) balsamic reduction, …

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My sorella told me I should make pea pesto. I was having Rebecca over to help me make the rose cake, so I wooed her with pea pesto. The pesto recipe looked good, but I only had sweet peas, and …

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Hello Sorellas! Sorellatortina here, joining the lovely ladies of Garlic My Soul for some guest blogging! June is a very special month for me. 10 years ago in June of 2001, I stopped eating meat. It wasn’t an easy jump …

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As you may know, here at Garlic, My Soul we have a lot of pizza nights. Some of them are large – thirty of my closest friends, wandering around my apartment eating slices for four hours. Some of them are …

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Our third recipe for Cucina Fresca: February was Roasted Herb Chicken. We choose to do a roast chicken because we wanted to make a roast chicken as per our goals (see number 15) and we also wanted to tackle another …

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January’s main dish was baked mustard lemon fish. For the fish, we headed to the farmer’s market in search of something white. We saw red snapper, and decided that we would come back through, and if the red snapper was …

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We trust the PW. Always. And so, we made her baked lemon pasta, as a prep to our cooking all the recipes in her lovely cookbook. But, of course, we decided to add mushrooms. Mushrooms to put in some wine. …

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