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No need to spatter sauce all over the microwave. Photo by Elvira Kalviste | THE NIBBLE. To save cleaning a saucepan, we often microwave sauces in the bottle or jar. Dessert sauces are thick and don’t spatter. But pasta sauces can create microwave spatters that take more time to clean than the saucepan. Here’s…
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Decorating your own individual Halloween pizza is a fun family dinner activity on the nights leading up to Halloween. Or, turn it into a Halloween party feature. Set out bowls of garnishes—bell pepper, sliced mushrooms pepperoni, olives (eyes)—and let the participants make their own designs. If your kids are too young to plan a design,…
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Zucchini “canoes” substitute for pizza crusts. Photo courtesy Lucero Olive Oil. It’s not the toppings that are the problem with eating pizza frequently. The crust is where the ne’er-do-well carbs reside. The late, lamented Goldberg’s Pizza in Manhattan offered a diet pizza by heaping the toppings into an aluminum pie plate instead of onto…
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America loves mac and cheese. But too much of America is content to eat reconstituted powdered cheese sauce poured over boiled elbow macaroni. That’s the equivalent of a glass of Tang instead of fresh-squeezed orange juice. If your palate demands a gourmet version of mac and cheese, Cucina Fresca is ready to fill your freezer…
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To make mac and cheese from scratch, there’s no better demonstrator than the buoyant and charming Marcus Samuelsson, one of America’s most popular chefs. Chef Samuelsson grew up in Sweden. There he had meat balls with noodles, but didn’t discover macaroni and cheese until he moved to the U.S. “You learn a dish, and…
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