Yes, before you start sending messages or email, let me tell you that I know there are plenty of tomato-haters in this world. Even I, who loves anything tomato (and yes, red and orange are my favorite colors) has produced a child who even as he was in my tummy, defected to the other side. The result was that...
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Petite Peas and Roasted Sweet Corn Sauteed in Brown Butter and Sage
Its only August and I can already feel the end of summer in the air. I have been in the US for more than twenty five years and I still haven’t gotten used to the cold winters here. Every year just before fall sets in I start to panic at the thought of braving the cold winters again and...
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Slow-cooked Crockpot Marinara Sauce
A lot of Italian dishes need marinara as the base sauce but most people in the US prefer the convenience of the jarred or the canned kind because making Marinara from scratch is long-drawn cumbersome process and can take hours. Of course, gone are the days of slow cooking the sauce on a stove because very few people have...
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Baby Summer Squash, Tomatoes and Blue Cheese Salad
This time of the year, when the local produce is hitting the supermarkets and farmer’s markets, I try to eat my vegetables in their raw form because they taste amazingly good. Of course, if the vegetables are from your backyard, they are super fresh and cooking them is probably squandering away some of their vitamins and definitely their taste....
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