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Green Tea Noodles with Edamame

Book Club Recipes from Grace O: FoodTrients®: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life Green Tea Noodles with Edamame  FOODTRIENTS A FoodTrients Book Club Menu: Also see: Grace Os’ recipes for Spinach and Grapefruit Salad and Pear and Apple Tart For more recipe ideas, visit FoodTrients.com No matter what your book club is reading, you can add a lot of flavor […]

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Wild Mushroom Salad, Wild Girl

The Recipe Club‘s Wild Girl Wild Mushroom Salad THE RECIPE CLUB When we first decided to write The Recipe Club, we wanted to explore the light and dark sides of friendship. We also wanted to discover how the act of writing letters and emails can create intimacy — but can also, inadvertently, fan the flames of […]

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Spinach and Grapefruit Salad with Tangy Ginger Dressing

Book Club Recipes from Grace O: FoodTrients®: Age-Defying Recipes for a Sustainable Life Spinach and Grapefruit Salad with Tangy Ginger Dressing A FoodTrients Book Club Menu:  Also see: Grace O’s recipes for Green Tea Noodles with Edamame and  Pear and Apple Tart  For more recipe ideas, visit FoodTrients.com No matter what your book club is reading, you can add a lot […]

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Salt and Pepper Shrimp with Herb Salad

Ann Mah’s Salt and Pepper Shrimp with Herb Salad KITCHEN CHINESE  I grew up in a Chinese-American home where we ate Chinese food every day. By the time I moved to China as an adult, it no longer had the power to thrill me. Like Isabelle, the main character in Kitchen Chinese, I thought I knew everything […]

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Victory Fish

Ellen Feldman: Victory Fish  Baked fish filet with panko breadcrumbs. White fish is soaked in buttter, coated with bread crumbs and spices, and baked. NEXT TO LOVE  Though the three women in Next to Love are good cooks, they would never consider themselves chefs. They simply get dinner on the table, as well as breakfast, lunch, pot […]

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Spaghetti and Cheese

Judith Jones: Spaghetti and Cheese Spaghetti in a creamy cheese sauce, topped with breadcrumbs and baked. ABOUT THE TENTH MUSE: MY LIFE IN FOOD  From the legendary editor who helped shape modern cookbook publishing—one of the food world’s most admired figures—comes this evocative and inspiring memoir. Living in Paris after World War II, Jones broke free […]

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Shrimp and Ham Jambalaya

Jewell Parker Rhodes: Shrimp and Ham Jambalaya  An easy recipe for a classic Louisiana Jambalaya made with shrimp, ham, sausage and/or chicken. YELLOW MOON  As a junior in college, I took my first creative writing course. The professor said, “Write about what you know.” I wanted to write about what I could imagine! So, naturally, […]

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Shepherd’s Pie

Pam Jenoff: Shepherd’s Pie Reicpe for a favorite English comfort food — Shepherd’s Pie casserole — made with beef or lamb, carrots and and peas, and topped with mashed potatoes. ALMOST HOME  I’m the first to admit I’m not a cook. I quickly turn away from any recipe that has too many ingredients or one […]

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Béchamel Sausage

Rachel Hauck: Béchamel Sausage Béchamel sauce adds a unique flavor when combined with sausage, peppers, onions and tomatoes. DINING WITH JOY While writing Dining with Joy, I became fascinated with the word béchamel. Doesn’t it just roll off your lips? Béchamel…. It could be a song. Béchamel, my darling, béchamel. I told my husband if we […]

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Sausage and Peppers

Chandra Prasad: Sausage and Peppers (Mrs. DeRisio’s Famous Sausage and Peppers) A simple and delicious recipe for Italian sausages and peppers. ON BORROWED WINGS  Marie DeRisio is the figurative mother in On Borrowed Wings. She is, in many ways, more nurturing than Adele Pietra’s actual mother, Gertrude. Always ready with a warm meal and a word of […]

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