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From The Blog:  Brando Cucina
 
Apr. 26, 2013 11:58 am 
Updated: Apr. 27, 2013 12:46 pm
Finally! I finally got my basil plants to grow after way too much turmoil. I don't know why basil is so hard for me, but it is. While my friends plants grow like weeds, mine tended to peter out and wilt. My first several tries this year yielded plants that died because something was attacking… MORE
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Pesto with pistachios
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Home Town: Toms River, New Jersey, USA
Living In: Los Gatos, California, USA

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From The Blog:  Brando Cucina
 
Apr. 20, 2013 11:43 am 
Updated: Apr. 23, 2013 6:21 am
Hmmmm... fresh artichokes! This week got three superb looking artichokes with the farm box and wondered just what we'd do with those babies. Had some homemade dried pappardelle left over too and thought well why not put them together with some thin sliced chicken and lemon? It would be… MORE
Chicken Scaloppini with Lemon Braised Artichokes and pappardelle
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Artichokes in braising liquid
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Home Town: Toms River, New Jersey, USA
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From The Blog:  Brando Cucina
 
Apr. 19, 2013 11:04 am 
Updated: Apr. 20, 2013 7:33 am
Along with Kale, Chard is one of our most favorite vegetables to cook with. You can coax it into doing so many things the variations seem endless, especially in Italian cooking. So when this beautiful bunch of green chard showed up in our weekly farm box, I thought of a cannelloni recipe I… MORE
Green Chard Cannelloni stuffed with Chard Stalks
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Home Town: Toms River, New Jersey, USA
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From The Blog:  Brando Cucina
 
Apr. 18, 2013 2:03 pm 
Updated: Apr. 19, 2013 5:00 am
Recently my wife and I were in New York City and on one occasion went to visit the Italian side of the West Village. On Bleeker Street we found a cool little risotteria most appropriately called "Risotteria" that served all sorts of different combinations. My wife had a saffron risotto with… MORE
Risotto with Baby Spinach and Italian Fontina
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Risotto sofrito with spinach
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Adding stock to the risotto
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Home Town: Toms River, New Jersey, USA
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From The Blog:  Healthy Husband, Happy Wife!
 
Apr. 17, 2013 5:55 am 
Updated: Apr. 24, 2013 7:23 am
Last night my intention was to try something Japanese as I wanted to empty my pantry and I knew I had some Bok Choy in the fridge. I found these delicious and healthy recipes on our favorite site of… MORE
Pasta and Vegetables
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Baked Teriyaki Chicken thigh with Pasta and vegetable salad
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From The Blog:  Lela's Cooking Journey
 
Mar. 25, 2013 9:43 pm 
Updated: Apr. 1, 2013 5:12 pm
If you love sausage, try some of these great recipes using Italian sausage from Johnsonville. My family enjoyed all the following recipes using sausage. All of the recipes I tried are what my husband calls keepers. For starters, I made the Italian Wedding Soup using the Johnsonville all natural MORE
Johnsonville Easy Sausage Pizza
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Indian Tacos with Yeast Fry Bread
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Home Town: Pueblo, Colorado, USA
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From The Blog:  Food.Love.Legacy.
 
Mar. 25, 2013 1:36 am 
Updated: Mar. 25, 2013 11:18 am
another "ground beef makeover:" thanks to johnsonville sausage, i had this gorgeous new sur la table baking dish to show it off in. the original recipe is here, at allrecipes.com. my changes included:-eliminated the pasta, replacing it altogether with thinly sliced, peeled eggplant-replaced… MORE
 
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From The Blog:  Brando Cucina
 
Mar. 21, 2013 4:26 pm 
Updated: Mar. 22, 2013 9:02 am
I'd rather be watchin' then cookin' tonight so I figured this is a great night for pizza. Cal (wife's alma mater) is playing UNLV and so you can bet we'll be glued to the TV. Kind of an iffy season for Cal. Didn't do well in the beginning, then it seemed they couldn't lose... except for the… MORE
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From The Blog:  Brando Cucina
 
Mar. 18, 2013 1:13 pm 
Updated: Apr. 7, 2013 8:51 pm
Well now, it's only mid-March but interesting stuff is showing up at the local Farmers Markets. My wife and I were totally surprised to see locally grown vine-ripened tomatoes! Yes they were dwarf tomatoes grown in the greenhouse, but wow! Picked ripe (not green) and as fresh as could be.… MORE
Smashed Tomatos with butter with Campanelle
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Home Town: Toms River, New Jersey, USA
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Mar. 16, 2013 6:17 am 
Updated: Mar. 23, 2013 2:54 pm
I have been on a years long journey to find healthier alternatives to my traditional Italian/Polish upbringing...really hard with an 80 year old father who doesn't like change.  Now...first said, my family is very supportive...yet very hesitant to trying new things.  My sister is the most… MORE
 
 
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