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February Dinner Roundup

I’ve been following a formula for dinner for the past month or so: Despite being, well, formulaic, this approach has given me a good base structure to experiment with. When looking at a new product or recipe, I can ask: how will I use that within the formula? Here are some of the meals I’ve
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Crepini Panchessi Protein Pancakes Review

I first saw these gluten-free protein pancakes mentioned in a HungryRoot recipe for stuffing them with ricotta cheese and blueberries. Pancakes is a bit of a misnomer. They’re somewhere between a crepe and a pancake. You can eat them stacked with maple syrup, but you can also eat them with fillings. So far I’ve tried
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Whipped cottage cheese is just okay

I heard about whipped cottage cheese from You Gotta Eat, and apparently it was a TikTok trend at some point. The idea is that cottage cheese is high protein, but the texture is weird, so let’s put it in the blender and create a food with the same nutrients, but a creamier consistency. You can
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Adventures in nut butter

I’ve been staring at the nut butter shelves when I go to the supermarket and just not seeing anything appealing or interesting. For the price, I want to be excited to eat what I’m getting. So instead of buying it, I decided to make a custom nut butter. I’ve made almond butter successfully before, but
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Review of “You Gotta Eat”
I recently read Margaret Eby’s “You Gotta Eat.” As the blurb says: A trained chef teaches you how to keep yourself fed–and maybe even enjoy it!–in the face of stress, burnout, and exhaustion. Eby makes a great point about cooking: “the best food is the food that you’ll eat.” I forget that a lot when
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Air fryer frittata

If you too are seeing egg shortage signs in your local grocery store, rest assured: there are no eggs in this frittata. I found this Air Fryer Spinach, Pepper and Havarti Frittata recipe while looking for dinner ideas, and decided to try it with JUST egg. It was delicious, especially with leftover pancakes. Here are
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How to make salad out of fridge scraps

The other night I was making baked potatoes (from here, really good btw) and realized I wanted a salad on the side. I took inventory and found I had pieces and leftover bits of vegetables, some of them greens, and some old fruit like pears and blueberries. I also had oil and vinegar in the
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New product reviews: chocolate chickpea waffles, grilled cheese soup, and more

Whole Foods has arrived in my town, which means access to more “healthy” new products — at a premium, of course. I expected it to have everything Sprouts has, but it’s actually missing a lot of the gluten-free baked goods I see in Sprouts. It’s also much more crowded. On the other hand, it has
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Apple and Cranberry Stuffed Acorn Squash
This past Thanksgiving I got nostalgic for stuffed squash halves, though I couldn’t remember the recipe I’d used before. My mom got out my parents’ big binder of printed recipes and found one by Colleen Doyle for stuffing acorn squash halves with apples and cranberries. I followed it with some tweaks. Here’s how I cooked
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2024 dinner flops vs. wins

I’m looking back at what worked and what didn’t for dinner this year. Spaghetti pie vs. meat sauce Instant pot spaghetti with meat sauce is a recipe I make regularly. It’s very easy, can be customized, and comes together quickly on a weeknight. I decided to try making spaghetti pie for a change, which is
