Tag: recipes
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Up Your Dinner Game with These Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes
It’s not just decorative gourd season, it’s melty cheese season. And boy, is it ever. Last week, I extolled the merits of Switzerland’s tiniest mountain cheese, the mighty-smelling Tête de Moine. He’s just one of many cheeses waiting to grace your table in liquefied form with drippy deliciousness. There’s also Raclette, Morbier, Emmental, Gruyere, Comte,…
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Five Things that are Better with Cheddar
Cheddar has myriad uses in everyday American cooking. That’s a no-brainer. Why wouldn’t you put cheddar into the 1,0001 things we put cheddar in, like macaroni and cheese, casseroles, baked potatoes, stuffed bell peppers, Americanized Mexican food, grilled cheese sandwiches, and apple pie? In much of our cooking, shredded or sliced cheddar is an ingredient—one…
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4 Dishes to Start Your Day the Cheesy Way
Not everyone eats breakfast. But among those who do, many believe that it is the most important meal of the day. Unfortunately, there’s no definitive study to either support or argue against the importance of breakfast—or any meal, for that matter. Whether breakfast is a daily ritual in which you always indulge, or it is…
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3 Easy Recipes to Cheese Up Your Weary Winter Nights
For many working people, it’s a struggle to come home and eat a balanced meal. Take it from your harried cheesemonger, who spends eight-plus hours a day on her feet: running around helping people, slicing never-ending quantities of lunch meat and charcuteries, carrying cheese, cutting cheese, wrapping cheese, rescuing cheese, counseling cheese (eaters), lifting, climbing,…
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Seven Ways to Up Your Grilled Cheese Game
All this talk about Swiss-style cheeses is making me hungry—for grilled cheese. It didn’t start feeling like fall in Seattle until about a week ago. As soon as the rains hit and the air cooled off a bit, I went in for the kill. I surprised the boyfriend with homemade tomato soup and grilled cheese…