Don Mauer
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Caesar-style salad dressing has staying power — and no added sugarMay 14, 2025 5:47 am - Has the classic Caesar salad lost its appeal? At one time, Caesar salad was a popular part of an upper-tier dining experience. Were those salads good? Depended on the restaurant and their ingredient choices. Excellent ingredients, like high-quality, extra virgin olive make a superb salad.
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Milk Street’s latest cookbook an adventure through Italy’s back roads and kitchensApr 23, 2025 5:55 am - “Milk Street: Backroads Italy” is the rare cookbook you will want to read from cover to cover. In it, Christopher Kimball and J. M. Hirsch crisscross Italy, visiting farms, local markets, hole-in-the-wall trattorias, and home kitchens to interview cooks, eat their food and share their recipes.
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With care, cast-iron can serve for a centuryApr 09, 2025 4:56 am - A properly seasoned cast iron skillet can function as well as any Teflon-coated one and last for generations, as long as you follow some basic steps in its care and use.
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Colorful cold chickpea salad a great way to get legumes on your plateMar 26, 2025 5:38 am - Chickpeas are good for so much more than hummus. Toss canned organic chickpeas with shallots, sweet red peppers, English cucumbers, carrots, fresh parsley and a sherry vinegar dressing to brighten up any plate.
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Sheet pan chicken gets dinner on with only 10 ingredientsMar 12, 2025 6:04 am - Italian seasoning and smoked paprika bump up the flavor on this simple sheet pan dinner with chicken thighs and cauliflower.
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Famous peanut butter chocolate chip blondies get low-sugar makeoverFeb 26, 2025 5:24 am - Years ago, when low-fat was all the rage, Don Mauer developed a reduced-fat version of Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies that were rich in flavor and nearly melted in your mouth. Now he’s giving the same recipe the low-sugar treatment.
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Making chicken Marsala with my own twist for my sweetieFeb 12, 2025 5:59 am - My sweetie, Nan, loves Chicken Marsala and orders it every time it appears on an Italian restaurant menu. Since those restaurants are so good at making it, and because I don’t normally stock Marsala wine, I’ve never tried making it, until now.
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Quick cannellini bean and bacon soup warms and delights on a cold dayJan 22, 2025 4:44 am - When you want to make something that warms you up that doesn’t take too long, try this Speedy Cannellini Bean and Bacon Soup. Canned beans and store-bought chicken broth make soup preparation a flash.
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This chilled asparagus side dish goes the distanceJan 08, 2025 4:53 am - This story begins with a friend asking me for ideas of what dish he could take to a dinner party. A 90-minute drive to said party meant just about anything he cooked at his house would be way overcooked by the time he arrived. He asked: “How about asparagus?”
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Ditch the beef, embrace the turkey chili this winterDec 25, 2024 5:15 am - You don’t need beef or tomatoes to make a chili worthy of the name. This Winter-Warming Turkey Chili from Don Mauer is a terrific twist on the classic.