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Spicy Mushroom and Chicken Chili
Peter Andrew Bosch/Miami Herald Staff

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Chicken and mushrooms lighten up game-day chili

This easy one-pot chili is perfect for a couple or a crowd on Super Bowl Sunday. Chili is always a family pleaser. Using chicken and mushrooms gives a light, tasty result. All of the ingredients cook in a large skillet. It’s a meal on its own, or serve quick-cooking rice and a ready-to-eat salad on the side.

  • Stir-Fried Diced Chicken And Cucumber

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    Hoisin flavors quick stir-fry

    Garlic, sherry and hoisin sauce flavor chicken in this quick Chinese stir-fry. Thoughts of the start of the Chinese New Year next week inspired this quick and easy stir-fry dinner.

  • Dinner in Minutes-Ham and Lentil Soup with Garlic Toast.

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    Quick lentil soup makes a nourishing supper

    This thick and hearty soup made with ham, lentils, and tomatoes takes only 30 minutes to make and is a great way to brighten up a winter evening. It’s a whole meal in one bowl.

  • Italian Beef and Vegetable Stew

    Desperation dinners

    Turn Italian stewed beef into beef stew

    Though she is often cooking for one these days, Alicia still like to cook in big batches to freeze. Not only does she have her dinner with most of the work done, but she has food to share.

  • Pork Pizzaioli with Arugula and Bean Salad.

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    Pizza-style sauce tops quick-cooking pork

    A Neapolitan pizza-style sauce over tender, juicy pork makes a quick and simple dinner. The combination of tomato, olive and garlic on the pork pairs beautifully with the earthiness of the beans and the bite of peppery arugula in the White Bean Salad.

  • With Italian Stewed Beef already prepared, this easy ravioli dish is ready in under 10 minutes.

    Desperation dinners

    Slow-cooked meat handy for quick dinner

    Batch-cooking meat speeds dinner to the table faster than you can call for takeout, and it’s so much healthier. Today’s Italian Stewed Beef is a slow-cooked wonder that can simmer on your countertop all day.

  • Serve Maple Pecan Granola with Greek yogurt, honey and fruit garmish for any holiday gathering.

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    Homemade granola a great holiday gift

    Now that Thanksgiving is over and we are heading into the biggest gift-giving season of the year, we want to share a treat that is as wonderful to distribute as it is to keep and enjoy at home.

  • Warm and filling with just the right amount of kick, White bean and fennel stew will keep you company on any winter's eve.

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    Bean stew is flavorful and flexible

    Today’s offering, part of our “foods to be thankful for” series, is a hearty bean stew with the spicy flavors of hot Italian sausage and piquant fennel.

  • Turkey Skillet Casserole.

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    Turn leftover turkey into flavorful skillet dinner

    This is a great way to serve leftover turkey. It’s a one-pot meal — a hearty casserole with turkey, mushrooms and pasta with a light touch.

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    Food at the Book Fair

    Columnist’s cookbook for diabetics featured at book fair

    Linda Gassenheimer, The Miami Herald’s Dinner in Minutes columnist, is featured at this year’s Miami Book Fair International with her latest cookbook, Fast and Flavorful: Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table (American Diabetes Association, $18.95). Photo Gallery Available

  • Sweet Potato Casserole

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    A sweet potato casserole to swoon over

    Today’s installment in “Foods to Be Thankful For” is my mom’s amazing sweet potato casserole. In case you missed the delicious carrot bisque featured last week, check out the simply elegant soup recipe at www.kitchenscoop.com.

  • Veal Roquefort with Linguine and French Green Beans.

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    Blue cheese adds tang to veal cutlets

    Juicy veal cutlets with a tangy Roquefort sauce creates a tasty dish. Veal cutlets only take 2 or 3 minutes to cook. They will continue to cook in their own heat once removed from the skillet. Just one ounce of cheese helps to make a very light, flavorful sauce.

  • Already cooked lentils speed you to dinner in under 15 minutes.

    Desperation dinners

    With lentils already cooked, this veggie-packed dish goes together in a flash

    Brown lentils are humble little legumes that often get overlooked for a desperate dinner. While it’s true that you don’t have to soak them, they can still take up to an hour to cook.

  • Italian Meatloaf with Hot Pepper Lentils

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    Italian flavors enliven lean meatloaf

    Meatloaf, well-seasoned and served with a tomato-mushroom sauce, makes a delicious entree. Complete the meal with a side dish of Spicy Lentils plus a lettuce or spinach salad.

  • Enjoy this simple olive oil dressed salad everyday.

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    A potato salad for all seasons

    Does potato salad have a season? I don’t think so, but some folks consider it strictly a spring/summer side dish. But the ingredients are simple, inexpensive and readily available year-round, so why not serve it in the fall and winter?

  • Menu suggestion: Smoked Pork Chops With Lemon-Butter Pasta and Asparagus, sliced fresh tomatoes and a baguette.

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    Smoked pork chops and lemony pasta a flavor bonanza

    Deja vu in the grocery store: That’s just what it felt like when we glanced down in the meat case and spied an old reliable just begging to be picked up — smoked pork chops.

  • Penne all’Arrabbiata

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    Spicy, garlic-laden pasta sauce will transport you

    Sometimes a pasta dish comes along that’s absolutely captivating. That was the case for Alicia on a recent trip to the French and Italian Riviera, where she discovered Penne all’Arrabbiata. It’s so pure, so simple and yet so different from anything she’d ever eaten that she wondered how she’d missed it for so long.

  • Easiest "Iced" Cream Ever

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    ‘Iced cream’ is a simple treat

    A friend of mine called the other day and announced: “I’m making homemade ice cream on the deck today. Come on over.” Funny how all my “straightening up the house” plans for that Sunday afternoon disappeared at the words “homemade ice cream.”

  • Jacques Pepin's Shrimp Provencal and Brown Rice

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    Shrimp dish a taste of French cruise cuisine

    Fresh shrimp in a light Provencal sauce is one of celebrity chef Jacques Pepin’s creations I tasted on a cruise.

  • It doesn't matter which comes foisrt, the chicken or the egg in this lean protein salad.

    Desperation dinners

    Chopped salad: Variety in every bite

    Do you like chopped salads? I do! I love that with a chopped salad, you get a little bit of everything in every bite. When my kids were younger, a chopped salad was a sure way to get a variety of things in their dinner without turned-up noses and scowls. My oldest wouldn’t eat eggs, but boiled, chopped and tossed in a salad, she would scarf them up. My youngest hated tomatoes, but finely chopped and tossed with lettuce, cukes and carrots? Suddenly they weren’t so bad.

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