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My top seven recipes from the Shine Food newsletter:
#1 Penne with Broccoli and Pancetta. I always keep a box of penne in my pantry just waiting for this kind of easy, fresh treatment. You should too--this dish is perfect for a feed-me-fast Tuesday night.
#2 Herbed Mashed Potatoes. I usually make mashed potatoes the exact same (boring) way, for no real reason (recipe complacency?), but no more! This recipe is vibrant and sophisticated.
#3 Double-Decker Pumpkin Bread. I love classic breads that somehow feel really new--they have the fuzziness of familiarity, but without the bore. I'm ready to inhale this one with my unchecked sweet tooth.
#4 Turkey Piccata with Fettuccine. Piccatas are the sort of dishes I always order and think, "This must be so easy to make at home," and then I NEVER look up the recipe.
#5 Triple Chocolate Cookies. I am really serious about cookies. Cookie Monster (his pre-fruit stage) serious. Our new food page has 649 cookie recipes. That's information I need to share.
#6 Garlic-Mustard Green Beans. Why, why, why do most people make bland green beans when it's this easy to get a good recipe? (Answer: No newsletter!) Note, everything in this dish is probably already in your kitchen.
#7 Holiday Cider. Making this (with or without booze) in your home is the best-smelling, coziest thing you can do in the kitchen. Few activities make me this happy to be in my apartment.
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