Swedish Tonight: Lamb Meatballs With Lentils
Try blogger Steffi Knowles-Dellner's lamb meatballs with lentils and cumin for a hearty, earthy dinner packed with protein and flavor.
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Home Cooked: Chicken In Green Olive And Tomato Sauce
Pick up a copy of The Palomar Cookbook, a collection of recipes from the London restaurant and try their chicken in green olive and tomato sauce!
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Slow Cooker Italian Turkey And Zucchini Meatballs Recipe
Hearty, rib-sticking food doesn't have to pack a day's worth of calories. Gina Homolka, author of the wildly popular blog Skinnytaste, has a new collection of hearty slow-cooker recipes out that pump up the flavor and nutrition and cut out the fillers. This slow cooker Italian turkey and zucchini meatball recipe is packed with lean protein…
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As Good As Your Grandma's Gravy: How To Make "Sunday Sauce"
Food Republic’s column Ask Your Butcher seeks to answer FAQs in the world of butchery. Ethically minded butcher Bryan Mayer has opened butcher shops and restaurants and has trained butchers in the U.S. and abroad. He helped develop the renowned butcher-training program at Fleisher’s. Today, he consults with farmers, butchers, chefs and anyone else who will listen. In each column,…
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14 Ways To Use That Italian Red Sauce (Gravy)
If you’re celebrating Italian-American Week like we are, you made a big ol’ pot of tomato sauce. A really huge one. You can’t really celebrate this particular week without this particular sauce — it’s an absolute staple and one of the most versatile blank slates for dinner ever. We have 14 ways to soak up…
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Pat LaFrieda's Four-Meat Meatloaf Recipe
We're very excited about renowned New York butcher Pat LaFrieda's new cookbook, the aptly named MEAT: Everything You Need To Know. In addition to a hearty lineup of LaFrieda's signature recipes, you'll learn the butchery skills you need to know through stunning photos and detailed diagrams. Just because meatloaf's an old classic doesn't mean you…
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5 Things You Might Not Know About San Marzano Tomatoes
Let’s get philosophical for a minute. If the crust of a pizza is its backbone, the cheese and toppings its face, then the sauce is its lifeblood. Too often overlooked, the right sauce is key to a great pie. It should be tangy and just a little sweet. Ask any pizzaiolo worth his salt and…
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Cheesy Tomato Grits Recipe
From our dude Nick Evans at Macheesmo comes Love Your Leftovers, an essential tome of what to do with the leftovers in your fridge. Brunch is a particularly useful meal when it comes to repurposing extra food, and these cheesy tomato grits are a great way to kick off your weekend. Make too much tomato sauce? Infuse…
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Seared Polenta With Spicy Heirloom Tomato Sauce Recipe
Earthbound Farm co-founder Myra Goodman, along with her daughter, recently released Straight From The Earth, a cookbook of wholesome vegan recipes. If you're jumping on the veggie-loading bandwagon, this is a cookbook you'll need in your kitchen arsenal. This crispy-creamy polenta smothered in a bold tomato sauce won't leave you wanting anything but seconds. The…
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Rigatoni With Spicy Salami And Tomato Recipe
We're so happy Brooklyn cornerstone Franny's condensed their spectacular repertoire into one of the best cookbooks of the summer (along with these 6 must-reads). Prepare for homestyle Italian food of the finest quality, each recipe with its own quirky twist. This rigatoni with fresh tomato sauce and spicy salami is destined to become one of…
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36 Ways To Use Canned Tomatoes Tonight
Until summer's tomato bounty is upon us, we'll have to make do with canned. Thankfully, there are many brands of canned tomatoes that — while not a substitute for the real thing — are packed with flavor and can do exactly what you need them to do. Check out 36 recipes with canned tomatoes and…
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Video: This Might Be The Best Gnocchi Instructional We Have Ever Seen
So this is really good. Watch as former James Beard Award finalist Cathy Whims of Portland, Oregon's Nostrana explains her basic homemade gnocchi al pomodoro recipe for Saveur. Whims demonstrates why Nostrana – Italian for “ours” – is renowned for an honesty with ingredients. So who's making gnocchi tonight? (Oh, and if videos aren't your…
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10 Sauce Recipes To Practice And Master
Welcome to Sauces You Need To Know, Weekend Edition. Time to break out the pots and whisks — we're making good food taste even better. Some sauces are cooked intensively, some are created with a quick whirl in the blender. However they're prepared, these 10 basic sauce recipes are great to know and even better…
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Baked Eggs With Tomato And Feta Recipe
Longstanding NYC Greek food haven Molyvos starts serving brunch this weekend — opa! If you can't make it to today's grand opening, make this Greek-style baked egg dish, known as avga feta domata. The trick is using the freshest eggs you can find — your local farmer's market definitely has them — as well as…
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Meatball Sliders Recipe
How many times have you ordered sliders at a restaurant, only to be presented with lackluster mini-burgers that made you wish you'd ordered the calamari? How many times have you ordered a meatball sub, only to be devastated when you can't finish it due to its gargantuan size? How many times have you asssesed the…
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In Praise Of Homemade Pizza
Take it from a guy who has eaten a lot of pizzas: One of the best pizzas you'll ever have is the one that comes out of your oven. Don't believe my pizza credentials? I've downed pies from Portland (Oregon) to Paris (France) and from Milan to Miami. I've supped on slices at legendary Brooklyn…
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Pizza, à La Grandma
You may not have encountered Grandma-style pizza in your travels, which is why it's what's for lunch. This is no ordinary pie. Right off the bat, it's square. We know what you're thinking: "Awh, that's not special, that's just Sicilian." Hang on, though. It's thin-crust. Mull that over. Oh, and the cheese comes first. What?…
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Stuffed Shells Recipe
When was the last time you made stuffed shells? Filled with a blend of Italian cheeses and topped with red sauce, this is true comfort food.
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Cheese-Stuffed Meatballs Recipe
As I was frying these cheese stuffed meatballs in the Food Republic Test Kitchen, I yelled over to our photographer Mark, "Okay we've got time-sensitive balls coming up in 3 minutes!" He looked at me, puzzled. "Because of the oozy cheese," I eloquently clarified, "We want to get a shot of the cheese melting out."…
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Bacon & Fresh Mozzarella Pizza Recipe
By making your own dough, or buying some from your favorite pizza shop, hand stretching it and baking at home, the pedestrian pizza pie is transformed into a work of art worthy of a dinner party. You can't miss with salty bacon, bubbling fresh mozzarella and tangy arugula all on top of a fresh-baked crispy…
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Pasta Puttanesca Recipe
If you don't know the age-old tale of pasta puttanesca (our favorite rendition, at least), gather round. It's said that Italian "streetwalkers" — of yore, of course — invented this dish for three reasons: 1. The busy ladies didn't have time to go shopping and had to cook with basic kitchen staples 2. They weren't…
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Chicken Parmesan Sub
When we published our easy chicken parmesan recipe, we left out one minor, if not obvious detail. Simply tuck the resulting goodness in a crisp baguette or nice fluffy Italian roll with some extra sauce and cheese and you've got one hearty sandwich, which is just how we like our sandwiches. We recommend you make…
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Best Basic Stuffed Peppers Recipe
Red bell peppers are an amazing thing. You can cut them open, scoop out the seeds and fill them with all sorts of ingredients: cheese, rice, spices, herbs. This recipe goes the vegetarian route, but if meat's your thing, try crumbling in hot Italian sausage, ground beef or ground turkey, along with grains and herbs.…
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Mediterranean Lamb Meatballs
The Meatball Shop in NYC's Lower East Side, is a hip and cozy little restaurant which serves nothing but meatballs. And ice cream sandwiches. Strange but true. This is a version of their lamb meatballs that you can make it home. They'll make a nice surprise Easter side dish.
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