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Roasted Salmon Glazed With Brown Sugar and Mustard
Roasting salmon with a mixture of Dijon mustard and brown sugar is a great way to temper what I consider to be salmon’s strong taste. There are lots of recipes similar to this one. The easiest method comes from Sam Sifton, editor of the NYT Cooking section: "Make a mixture of Dijon mustard and brown sugar to the degree of spicy-sweetness that pleases you. Salt and pepper the salmon fillets. Place them skin-side down on a lightly oiled, foil-lined baking sheet, slather the top


Lasagna with Spinach and Mushrooms
This easy-to-make lasagna uses no-boil noodles and a jar of your favorite marinara sauce. The original recipe, from Martha Rose Shulman’s...


Butternut Squash Soup
Here's a rich tasting butternut squash soup that doesn't pack a caloric punch. Despite its creamy texture, there's no cream in this soup....


Julia Child's Trimmed Down, Eased up Boeuf Bourgignon
When the film Julie and Julia came out in 2009, moviegoers clamored to buy Julia Child's seminal cookbook, "Mastering the Art of French...


Lone Star Chicken
Following is a super-easy recipe that's perfect for this busy time of year when we're short on time but still need to serve healthy...


Spaghetti and Turkey Meatballs
This recipe for Italian-inspired turkey meatballs is a sacrilege to traditional Italian cooks because these meatballs are not fried in...


Goldilocks’ Turkey Chili
I recently asked Siri if she could direct me to a good turkey chili recipe. (You know you're in the 21st century when your cooking BFF is...


Three Sisters Stew
According to Native American folklore, "the three sisters" were corn, squash, and beans, which have been planted together in North America for 3,000 years. The beans were planted at the base of corn stalks, which served as a trellis for the vines to climb up. The squash was planted in between; its large leaves shaded the ground and kept the soil moist. The three plants thrived together much better than if they were planted alone. Three Sisters Stew is the result of this harm


Shrimp Curry
When my father returned home from Hawaii where he was stationed for 3 years during WWII, he brought with him a recipe for shrimp curry . ...


Spicy Taco Soup
Spicy Instant Pot Taco Soup from 101 Cookbooks’ Heidi Swanson According to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, the forecast in Kansas for the next two months reads like this: “Rain, then sun. More rain, more sun, then snow showers, then sun.” In other words, it’s obviously not grilling weather quite yet, so I’m sticking with soup, and one of my favorites is taco soup. This recipe comes from Heidi Swanson, proprietor of a very popular vegetarian website, 101 Cookbooks. I haven’t used


Orzo Minestrone (Summerstrone)
The end of summer is approaching. When I take the poodles outside in the early morning I feel a cool autumn breeze instead of the...


Tomato Green Bean Salad
This salad is the Recipe of the Day in the NYT Food section. I made it when it was first published in early summer and was happy to see...
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