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mushroom pasta: spaghetti & simple chanterelle cream sauce

2019/10/28 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Pasta and mushroom cream sauce – though technically without cream, a white sauce made umami delicious with a healthy portion of fresh chanterelles and just a hint of salty parmesan. This comes together in less than a half hour and served with a simple salad (think butter lettuce and oil and vinegar) makes one wonderful […]

Filed Under: Pasta, Recipes, Savory, Vegetarian Mains Tagged With: chanterelle mushrooms, mushrooms, Pasta, stovetop

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An Ode to the Box: Four Ways to Fancify Mac & Cheese

2016/02/23 By Melinda Leave a Comment

Four Ways to Fancify Boxed Mac & Cheese, one for every season

An Ode to the Box You know what I f!@#ing hate? I hate food headlines that say things like “Never make such and such (insert that thing you crave when you are sad or tired) from a box again!” I hate them because it implies that if you use the box you’ve failed. And there are […]

Filed Under: Pasta, Recipes Tagged With: mac and cheese, Pasta

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blue cheese macaroni bites with buffalo dipping sauce

2016/02/03 By Melinda 3 Comments

blue cheese macaroni bites with buffalo dipping sauce

Bite sized bits of tangy blue cheese and pasta served with a subtly spicy classic Buffalo dipping sauce. These addictive little bites will be what I bring to the potluck this year. I hear there is a football game this weekend. Football and snacks are intrinsically connected- this could be a scathing commentary on the […]

Filed Under: Pasta, Recipes, Savory, Sides and such Tagged With: appetizer, Blue Cheese, buffalo, macaroni, macaroni and cheese, party food

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Easy as ABC: spicy mac and cheese with avocado, bacon, and chicken

2014/03/12 By Melinda 1 Comment

spicy mac and cheese with bacon, avocado, and chicken

What is it about Macaroni and Cheese? It’s my happy food. My ‘it’s all better now’ snack. My ‘I can’t decided what to make for dinner’ dinner. I even like the vegan variety which, in truth, tastes nothing at all like mac and cheese but is still comforting just in its similarity. I don’t remember eating […]

Filed Under: Meaty Mains, Pasta, Recipes, Savory Tagged With: avocado, bacon, chicken, mac and cheese

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