From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 12, 2010 at 10:09 am
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March 11, 2010 at 7:53 am
When I was in college, I had a roommate one semester who loved garlic bread more than anyone I had ever met. Her mom would buy her a loaf from the grocery store every week and
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 10, 2010 at 7:36 pm
The kids and I often dance in the kitchen while I am cooking or cleaning up from a meal. As soon as I turn the music on, they come running … it’s so much fun. ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 9, 2010 at 12:05 pm
Some issues of magazines are just blow-you-over good. The 2008 Cookies issue of Fine Cooking is like that. Another 2008 goodie? The November 2008 issue of Everyday Food. I can’t ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 8, 2010 at 3:54 pm
When I was a kid, I had an aha moment at dinner one night. See, my family always spelled out words and names when I wasn’t supposed to understand what they were saying. ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 5, 2010 at 7:23 pm
As part of my job, I spend a lot of time interviewing people. Lately, that has meant conversations with chefs, authors of eating-related books, nutritionists … people who ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 4, 2010 at 10:05 pm
These aren’t your average meatball.
Stuffed with bits of red pepper, sundried tomato and fresh parsley, these really don’t need anything more than a toothpick (or ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 3, 2010 at 7:08 pm
For being such a big fan of using roasted chickens, I don’t roast my own often. The ones from the grocery store are so darn convenient, you know? However, there are so many ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 2, 2010 at 9:59 am
One hundred years ago, making biscuits didn’t need the qualifier of “from scratch.” It’s just what people did. People cooked. They sifted and baked, rolled ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
March 1, 2010 at 5:10 pm
One of the most brilliant gifts of motherhood is watching your kids develop their own personalities, likes and dislikes. I am blessed to mother two strong, brilliant, adventurous ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 26, 2010 at 11:54 am
Watching the Jamie Oliver TED talk the other day, tears came to my eyes. In the video, Jamie talks about how he visited a West Virginia school and the children couldn’t tell ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 25, 2010 at 1:10 pm
Do you ever start cooking something and then think, gee I wish I had ___? That’s what happened the other night as I stirred our beef stew on the stove. I really wanted something ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 24, 2010 at 11:50 am
Confession time: When I listed out my favorites of 2009, one of the lists included a Chicken Souvlaki Salad from a local pizza place. Honestly, I thought it was their own creation ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 23, 2010 at 6:41 pm
The kids and I made a Mexican Chopped Salad today. It was awesome, and they gobbled it up. Actually, we gobbled it up. But what was more awesome was our conversation while we ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 22, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Dear Readers, My weekly Cooking with Kids recipe will appear tomorrow. Due to technical difficulties, we had to delay it a day. Thanks for your understanding! -S
Sometimes, the ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 19, 2010 at 12:36 pm
A few years ago, I convinced my husband to purchase an extra freezer. The space in our upstairs freezer (attached to the fridge) just wasn’t cutting it. So, one evening he ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 18, 2010 at 11:13 pm
What makes a go-to recipe for you? It’s something personal, something that really depends on how you cook and how much you really enjoy cooking. For me, go-to recipes have ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 17, 2010 at 4:06 pm
A few years ago, I read a blog post where the author declared their undying love for sunchokes, aka Jerusalem artichokes. I’d never seen or heard of this … thing (not ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 16, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Apparently the kitchen nymphs were listening yesterday when I talked about things not going as planned because this morning when I went to make breakfast, my beloved range started ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 15, 2010 at 5:28 pm
Things don’t always go the way we want them to. Sure, wouldn’t we all just love everything to go exactly as we plan right down to the nitty gritty details? But then, ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 12, 2010 at 5:00 am
Do you eat dinner as a family? We do, nearly every night. It’s important to me, and studies show that the benefits of eating as a family are huge. Unfortunately, with packed ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 11, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Living a healthy life is a major theme in my life — and my family’s life — these days. It wasn’t long ago that I had a hard time meshing my recipe development ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 10, 2010 at 9:09 am
Forgive me, I don’t have a great photo of this recipe. Sigh.
For Christmas, my husband got me something that I’ve been wanting for a long, long time: a point and shoot ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 9, 2010 at 5:53 pm
A few months ago, I read somewhere that basically Brussels sprouts are the new black. While I agree that they are absolutely, positively delectable … I think this highly ... (
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From Sarah's Cucina Bella
February 8, 2010 at 3:49 pm
This post would be more accurately titled “Letting Kids Do the Cooking,” but I don’t want to interrupt the flow of this weekly feature (which I totally love, ... (
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