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Homemade Spinach Gnocchi in Sage Brown Butter Sauce

A few months back, both Gourmet (RIP) and Saveur featured simple homemade gnocchi recipes - and I got the bug to try this for dinner one night. We're big fans of making our own pasta, probably because kneading the dough is so therapeutic. But gnocchi is a little different - it's not like I can run it through a pasta machine or anything. Pillowy soft requires a different touch.

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Curried Apple Orzo Salad

Every family has one of these. You know, dishes that get trotted out anytime there's a picnic or a potluck. Sometimes it involves peas or potatoes, other times mayonnaise. That's what I like so much about this recipe - it's different from all of the usual buffet table fare.

I found this recipe in the food section of the Austin American Statesman when I was in college at UT. It came from Cafe Annie - Robert Del Grande's go-to place in Houston - when Cafe Annie was still relatively young.

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Strozzapretti with Tomato Sauce and Fresh Basil

Strozzapretti. Means 'priest stranglers' in Italian.

Sometimes food is serious business. Sometimes it just makes you laugh. That was the case when I saw the name of this pasta in the last Corti Brothers quarterly newsletter, and I knew I had to buy it.

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Ham Hock with Red Cabbage

We had a run on pork in our house - with another piggy coming in a few months, we really wanted to get through all of last year's pig in good fashion. Here's another recipe from the Granny pig section of Pork and Sons!

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