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    Roasted Red Pepper, Sunflower and Walnut Pesto

    by  • February 21, 2012 • dinner, lunch, pasta, quick and easy, Recipes, sauce, The Food Matters Project • 11 Comments

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    The kids and I have been establishing new routines this year. We’ve shed the lazy weekends that used to feel so empty and instead started packing Saturday and Sunday tight with grocery shopping at the good store, cooking, library time, church and family dinner with our extended family. Though I thought the structure of...

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    Sausage Bolognese

    by  • January 10, 2012 • pasta, Recipes, sauce • 2 Comments

    When Paige turned four-years-old a few months ago, she had a pretty simple request for dinner: pasta. Like many kids, she and Will adore pasta, calling it one of their favorite foods (along with salad, broccoli and chocolate). And they aren’t just talking about macaroni and cheese. They love it so many ways —...

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    Cooking with Kids: Heirloom Tomato and Provolone Sauce

    by  • September 27, 2010 • Cooking with Kids, Eating Locally, Homecooking, Gardening, Farm Fresh, pasta, preserving/canning, Raising Healthy Kids, Recipes, sauce • 0 Comments

    Every fall, I make a big batch of Roasted Tomato Sauce (and, last year, tomato paste) and can it for wintertime. Opening up a jar of it in the dead of winter is glorious. It’s like bottling summertime. But this year I just haven’t gotten to it and really am not sure if I...

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    Cranberry Salsa

    by  • November 7, 2009 • Appetizers, Celebrate, Healthy Cooking, sauce • 1 Comment

    Got chips? It was mid-summer when I started dreaming up this cranberry concoction. While my family and I were contemplating whether the elevated temperatures really warranted turning on the air conditioner, I was also starting to fantasize about how I could take some traditional Thanksgiving tastes – like cranberry sauce – and give them...

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