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When I was going to graduate school and working full-time, I used to really miss having my weekends to myself. Walking to the library on crisp fall Sunday afternoons, I would pass so many people watching football at sports bars. I'm not even a huge fan, but it made me super wistful - it just represented free time! Last fall, the first since I finished grad school, I made a point to enjoy a couple of games on Sunday afternoons at a sports bar. It made me feel proud of the hard work I had done.

Vintagejenta - I have wondered the same thing about local producers versus large grocery store providers!

I wonder why green beans made the Dirty Dozen list last year but not this year.

Smitten Kitchen's snickerdoodle recipe is so easy and is completely from scratch. You only need 8 ingredients, that I always have - flour, butter, white sugar, eggs, salt, baking soda, cinnamon, and cream of tartar. You don't even have to let the butter come totally to room temp, or refrigerate the dough, if you are pressed for time.
http://smittenkitchen.com/blog/2009/09/snickerdoodles/

I love this idea, too! An added benefit for me is that it would make me much better about keeping my place "company-ready" :/

This is a delicious, filling, healthy soup!

I made a few changes/interpretations - I used dried, cooked navy beans, and I didn't have any tomato puree so I just used some jarred marinara. I love garlic so I doubled it, and I added half of a red bell pepper. Ina Garten's recipe for ribollita includes bacon or pancetta, so I added 3 slices of large-dice bacon, too, but got more bacon flavor than I would have wanted. I think I would have preferred 1 or 2, both for flavor and healthfulness.

These are great! I just activated two of them.

Loved this post! Looks like an amazing trip.

Gragnano, which is a slightly fizzy red wine from Campania, is my favorite. To my palate it's not quite as sweet as many sparkling reds and tastes great with pizza.

I'm with thescreamqueen - thick and bready crusts ruin it for me!

I ordered a veggie pizza once in Ireland that came topped with the usual - pls corn! That was a pizza dealbreaker, too

I love thekitchn, but I have to say I'm disappointed in the cookbook reviews on this site. I wish you would try out a few of the recipes and comment on whether the directions are clear, the cook-times seem to be on target, the yield is accurate, the portions are appropriate, etc - not full-on recipe reviews, but it would definitely be helpful to know whether or not, in general, the reviewer had success in actually using the book, and whether or not the book's recipes accurately reflect actual results.

Cookbooks aren't just for reading - they're for using, for a specific purpose. While the ease of reading, analysis of the format, and a description of the topics covered is useful to know, I think the tastiness of the food and the experience of following the recipes is much more important.