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    Capellini Verdi

    I was watching one of Alton Brown’s episodes of Good Eats a few months ago and he mentioned that the average person never deviates from about 100 food items when they shop at the grocery store. It makes sense, too. Even if we use our groceries in different ways, for the most part what we buy is exactly the same each time. I think some of us have even a shorter list that we never stray from! Aside from not knowing about different items or how to use them, no one really has that much time to spend in a grocery store. Even if we do not write a list…

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    Mediterranean Salad

    “A lot of times we eat salads that are drowned in ranch or italian dressing and we hardly stop to look down at the withered heap we so poorly categorize as healthy food. A good salad won’t need to be drowned by dressing. A good salad will be the main event–crisp, zingy, refreshing, and the dressing will only serve to compliment…” -Fifi When I go to restaurants, there isn’t a type of salad that I don’t like. At Japanese restaurants I enjoy cool seaweed salad, & I have had the assortment of slaws in American & even Thai cuisine. My irritation is with salads that are soaked soggy with dressing,…