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All kale breaks loose with a good rub
Kale is about as unlikely a food star as you can imagine. It’s tough and fibrous. Bite a piece of raw kale and you’ll practically end up with splinters between your teeth. Nevertheless, kale has be...

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Julia Child's Grilled Salmon and Gratineed Cauliflower is simple to prepare. Open a bag of green salad to finish the meal.

Fresh salmon, vegetable gratin make simply superb supper
Julia Child once mentioned to me that she likes cooking for herself, “I love to cook, and I love to eat, and I like my own cooking. I get very depressed if I don’t eat nicely. I have fun with whate...

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
Raspberries and a dollop of whipped cream provide the perfect companion to mint cookies.

Missing Thin Mints? Make your own
Timing is everything, right? On the day when a colleague showered my cubicle with a few boxes of my personal dietary Kryptonite — Girl Scouts Thin Mints cookies — a cookbook landed in my mailbox...

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Venturing off the beaten aisle
It’s time to move mint beyond juleps and mojitos. Because in the U.S. mint has struggled to land on the dinner table. We tend to associate it with sweets (after all, it does pair nicely with cho...

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Red curry potatoes and chickpeas is a great from-scratch recipe you can have on the table in less than 30 minutes.

Curry dish comes together quickly
On busy weeknights, we take our dinner shortcuts wherever we can find them. But this doesn’t require sacrificing healthy home cooking. Make smart choices — as in this recipe for red curry potato...

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The Corleone cocktail and Angry Meatballs are part of a selection of drinks and appetizers inspired by Oscar winners "The Godfather," "Silence of the Lambs," "Forrest Gump," "Gone with the Wind" and "Casablanca."

Oscar eats based on past winners
Great movies and great food are box office gold, from Forrest Gump’s chocolates to “Silence of the Lambs” anti-hero Hannibal Lecter’s disturbing pairing suggestion for Chianti. We’ve put togethe...

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Marmalade-glazed Asian meatball cups. (Courtesy Pillsbury.com/MCT)

A taste of the best
The Pillsbury Bake-Off is in its 45th year, and the finalists for this year’s competition have been chosen. The grand prize winner receives a whopping $1 million. The 100 potential winners will ...

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Leftovers: Keep food safe and appetizing
A few slices of veggie pizza from that new restaurant you tried last night, a hunk of lasagna or eggplant parmesan from Saturday’s potluck, and that chili you simmered on Sunday need not languish i...

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Croutons and cubed butternut squash make caesar salad hearty enough for a chilly winter evening.

Butternut squash bulks up caesar salad
No matter how delicious a Caesar salad is, chilly temperatures tend to be a turnoff for all things leafy. Which is why I decided to tinker with the basics of this classic salad, to see whether I...

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Quince-filled chocolate marzipan bonbons can be sprinkled with flake sea salt, candy sprinkles, finely crushed nuts or coconut for a gourmet touch.

Handmade chocolates anyone can do. And quickly.
Attempting to make chocolate bonbons from scratch is enough to test anyone’s love. First you have to cook up some fussy filling, and get it into — and to hold — just the right shape. Then you ha...

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