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Dinner Tonight: Warm Chicken Salad with Arugula, Capers, and Pine Nuts

"I polished off this dish like it was steak." This may sound like an awfully simple salad, but something about it is so much more. I found the recipe on Orangette after searching around for ways to use arugula and...

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Eat for Eight Bucks: Best-Ever Salad for Leftover Meats

[Photographs: Michele Humes] Shopping List 16-ounce can cannellini beans: $1.09 Fresh rosemary: $1.49 Fresh basil: $1.50 Scallions: $0.69 1/2 pint cherry tomatoes (pro-rated): $1.75 Red onion: $0.28 Pantry items: Extra virgin olive oil, Dijon mustard, vinegar Total cost: $6.80...

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Dinner Tonight: Beef Miroton

Once again, I was faced with some leftover roast beef. My first reaction will always probably be roast beef hash, but I'd just made that a few weeks ago. Was there any other dish dish that could utilize the roast...

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Dinner Tonight: 'Garbage Pail' Pasta

I stumbled on this recipe on the website of food writer Faith Willinger, who was recommended by Mario Batali on the Babbo restaurant website as a good source of intelligence on Italian food and restaurants. I ended up falling...

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Dinner Tonight: Roast Beef Hash

The glories of roast beef hash don't make a lot of sense until you've got a hunk of cooked roast beef ready to go in the fridge. This is a leftover meal, and yet it manages to change the...

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Sesame-Crusted Oat Fritters with Chimichurri Dipping Sauce

Leftover bowls of oatmeal often have a sorry fate. They get hard, look even more inedible, and don't reheat well. But this unglamorous stage of oatmeal life is actually perfect for oatmeal fritters.

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Dinner Tonight: Mushroom Curry

I tend to do most of my shopping on Sunday, so by the end of the week I'm usually staring at a fridge that's seen better days. Usually all I can find is empty containers of olives, gnarly sprigs...

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What to Do With Leftover Wine: Mulled Wine Syrup

Did you wake up on New Year's morning swearing off the sauce forever? Do you have more half-empty bottles of vino than you know what to do with? Here's a way to repurpose the plonk, without the pain. Wine...

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Meat Lite: Spaghetti with Garlic, Broccoli, and Ham

I had a very meaty Christmas and I loved every minute of it. In the span of a week, I indulged in one braised rump roast, one giant fresh ham, one roasted chicken and two spiral hams. Today, the advance...

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Dinner Tonight: Cottage Pie

I've probably had as many bad versions of cottage pie as good ones, yet that doesn't seem to stop me from trying my luck. Perhaps I just associate them with cool, rainy weather of London, and the warm pubs I...

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