Simple pasta with vegetables.

This simple pasta recipe is endlessly flexible: Use any combination of vegetables that you like. Be sure to choose orecchiette pasta, whose bowl shape works perfectly here.

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Comfort food, Mexican-style.

On these late-fall evenings when it gets dark at 5:00, I want something for dinner that’s easy, spicy and comforting. Mexican chilaquiles is the perfect dish.

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recipe for farro risotto with corn | writes4food.com

Farro risotto with summer corn.

We love LOVE risotto. Love making it, love eating it. Risotto has reputation of being kind of a pain in the tuchus to make, what with all the constant stirring. It takes awhile to bubble and …

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Canning summer tomatoes.

I learned a couple of new tricks when I tried canning local heirloom tomatoes from the farmers’ market this week. You can benefit from my mistakes.

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