Fresh tomatoes and stale bread make a lovely salad you must try every summer. Italians know it as panzanella. I think you're safe calling it bread salad if panzanella sounds a little fussy to you.
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Sweet Pea 7 Layered Salad Recipe
This story and layered salad recipe first appeared on A Cook and Her Books blogspot May 17, 2010.
Contrary to what
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Mississippi Pot Roast Instant Pot Recipe
Pot roast is the kind of dish I make to remind my family that I still cook. We're now a household of 3, from an
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Quick Fig Dessert Sauce Recipe
Figs are one of the delights of my late summer garden. Like blueberries, figs are easy to grow in a home landscape, at
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Fig Skillet Cake Recipe
Be sure to read garden expert Shelley Cramm's guest post on growing figs in your backyard. Here's my companion piece, a
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Summer Vegetable Soup Recipe
First published on A Cook and Her Books blogspot September 30, 2012 with the title "Sufferin' Sucotash."
Whenever I
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Broccoli Quinoa Salad Recipe
I'm fortunate to work from home most days. But it's a trade-off, to be honest. I'm grateful that my mornings don't start
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Banana Cupcakes with Chocolate Sour Cream Ganache Recipe
First published November 5, 2012
Just a recipe today, a cupcake that I make from time to time to put in my daughter's
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Herbed Cottage Cheese Dip Recipe
Thanks to TikTok content creators, cottage cheese is having a moment. The vital ingredient is viral, with 630 million
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Sweet Corn Soup with Lump Crab and Chives Recipe
First published as "Uptown Sweet Corn Soup" on A Cook and Her Books blogspot August 26, 2010.
I'm a fan of all things
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