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About me: Me: a food-obsessed librarian.

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September 19th, 2013

Meatballs and Tomatoes from Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking

This is one of my go-to meatball recipes. I adapt it to include pesto if I have some on hand, but the recipe is great made as stated in the instructions, as well. There are a lot of milk-soaked bread crumbs... read more >


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Vegetable Soups from Deborah Madison's Kitchen

By Deborah Madison
Broadway - 2006

5th January 2013 (edited: 5th January 2013)

Black-Eyed Peas with Mustard Greens and Rice : page 93

This soup was a mess of off flavors and textures. The greens were bitter, the beans lacked flavor, the rice was a distraction, and the whole thing did not meld together as a soup should. If I were to make it again, I probably would cook it for several hours with the beans, greens, and seasonings, and I'd still put the rice in more toward the end, or I'd have left the rice out entirely.

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