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Cooking on deadline: Simple ingredients can create sensational pasta dish
Cooking on deadline: Simple ingredients can create sensational pasta dish By J.M. HIRSCH AP Food Editor Published Jan 31, 2012 04:15PM MDT When you select the right ingredients, it doesn’t take many of them to create a fantastic dinner. Nor much time. The trick is to pick ingredients with tons of flavor, then let them do the heavy lifting for you. I usually start with a main ingredient that is ...

Rustic Inn offers vegetarian recipe
Chef and owner Aaron Ackley of the Cedar Rustic Inn submitted this week’s County Cuisine vegetarian recipe. “Sometimes, I find that in the winter, I crave dishes with both depth of flavor and a memory of the summer,” Ackley wrote. “This particular cre read more

Get creative with your recipes
As a culinary teacher, I always encourage my students to not feel they must be shackled to a recipe in order to cook well. Sure, following recipes to the iota has its place — like when your vegan granddaughter is visiting and needs baba ganoush, or when you pick up some weird root at the Asian market and must figure out what to do with it, or when you're craving pasta alla amatriciana just like ...

Cooking up a guilty pleasure: Pad Thai
  Let's think for a moment about guilty pleasures.You know what I'm talking about: extra-dark chocolate, Swedish fish, peanut-butter-filled pretzel nuggets, super-premium ice cream. Those are some of mine; I know you have yours.Oddly enough, one of my very favorite guilty pleasures is Pad Thai,...

Recipe: Cheese Tortellini with Chicken, Carrots, Broccoli and Basil Pesto
A tasty way to use up leftover cooked chicken!

Simple ingredients can create sensational pasta
When you select the right ingredients, it doesn't take many of them to create a fantastic dinner. Nor much time.

White House chef says Obamas eat seasonal
WASHINGTON—The White House has fully embraced one of eating's hottest trends—seasonal cooking with ingredients grown at home.

White House chef says Obamas eat seasonal ingredients
The White House has fully embraced one of eating's hottest trends _ seasonal cooking with ingredients grown at home.

Recipe: Spicy Sausage and Arugula Penne
This is an easy to make recipe that can be adapted to what you have on hand.

White House chef says kitchen garden encourages Obama, guests to eat seasonal vegetables
WASHINGTON - The White House has fully embraced one of eating's hottest trends — seasonal cooking with ingredients grown at home.