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01/24/13 • SUPER SQUASH SPREAD

01/24/13 • SUPER SQUASH SPREAD Adapted from Jerusalem: A Cookbook by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi Last week a group of friends came over to watch the Golden Globes and the squash purée you see before you is one of the things I made. I’ve always loved hummus and thought this recently discovered recipe might offer a nice alternative to that Middle Eastern classic. Here the use of butternut squash and the date (or m
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09/13/12 • DREAMING IN EMPANADAS

09/13/12 • DREAMING IN EMPANADAS From the May, 2010 Cook’s Illustrated (click here to view the recipe) It’s taken me a while to get this recipe to you, but it’s one that’s been on my mind since early summer. Remember those weeks in the beginning of June, when you still couldn’t quite believe it was light at 8:30 PM and it seemed like those long, warm days would stretch on forever? Well it was around that time that I
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04/12/12 • EASY CHEESE SPREAD

04/12/12 • EASY CHEESE SPREAD From Canal House Cooking, vol. no. 6 It’s still hard to believe that Spring is here already. And by “Spring” I don’t just mean the official, calendar-defined season, but rather the one marked by the appearance of small green buds on just about everything — even that sad little shrub I pass on my way to work each morning that I figured was surely destined for the trash heap. Here in NYC t
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