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[1] Chicken cacciatore served with pasta (photo © Evan Joshua Swigart | Wikimedia). [2] Classic Chicken Cacciatore (photo © Australian Chicken Federation). [3] If you want to save money, buy a whole chicken and quarter it yourself (photo © Good Eggs). October 15th is National Chicken Cacciatore Day. Chicken cacciatore (cah-cha-toe-ray) is Italian country…
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We should have published this tip in the summer, when it was too hot to turn on the oven. But it’s a year-round good idea for a quick and easy dessert or appetizer tart. You can bake your own tart shells of course, and even freeze a batch for ad hoc use. You can also…
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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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[1] If you want your mashed potatoes laden with butter, cream and sour cream, here’s a recipe from Williams Sonoma (photo © Williams Sonoma. [2] Fat-free Greek yogurt replaces the butter and sour cream (photo © FAGE Greek Yogurt). Lovers of mashed potatoes have to be cholesterol-hearty: There’s lots of saturated fat-laden butter, cream,…
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Parsnip: the new snack chip. Photo and recipe courtesy Actifry. Earlier this year, we wrote about the new healthy chip craze, nutritious kale chips. Will the next hot snack be parsnip chips? These root vegetables, cousins of carrots, are popular in soups and stews. But they also lend their honeyed sweetness to a crunchy…
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