Top 5 Pasta Dishes to Order Out

Top 5 Pasta Dishes to Order Out

I hardly ever order pasta in a restaurant. Especially in the United States. I mean, with some basic ingredients and a modicum of skill, one can recreate most pasta dishes found on most menus. But there are some pasta dishes that I'll order whenever I see them. Even if I spy lamb scottadito on the menu. Because they are so fabulous, and so hard to replicate, it feels like I won the lottery just finding them on the menu.

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Top 5 Simple, Warming Soups with Global Flavor

Top 5 Simple, Warming Soups with Global Flavor

I'm throwing a fundraising dinner to benefit the International Rescue Committee's work with Syrian refugees and also our local refugee community, and we're serving soup. I adore soup. It feels like love in a bowl. It's pretty much my favorite food and so I'm delighted with my friend Christina's idea to have all of us hosts make a vat of soup to ladle out to guests who will each donate what they'd pay for a meal out. And so now I'll have to think about what soup I'll make. These are my favorites, worthy of consideration as we pay tribute to the Light in our community, and the Light that lies in all people.

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