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Contents Intro Prepping the Dish Cooking the Dish Overall Impressions Final Word Recipe Intro This week, fall began to announce itself rather noticeably outside the windows of the Quincy Kitchen. We not only saw our second nor’easter (though this was was also a “bomb cyclone”), but for the first time I noticed the leaves on the trees outside my window beginning to change color. Although only a few of those “fixed,” made on a specific week for a specific reason, dishes remain on my menu, the recipes from here on in do have a more strategic, seasonally-appropriate feel. Meant to...

Every fall, the sight of winter squashes in all their glory — stacked in bins at the supermarket, arranged in piles at the farmers market — brings me a shiver of joy almost as invigorating as the realization that I can finally turn on the oven at any time of day without worrying it’ll overheat the house. Roasting is my preferred way to cook so many vegetables, and these babies are no exception. My favorite varieties are the drier, firmer ones such as kabocha, acorn and red kuri, partly because they turn so nutty and caramelized in the oven, but...

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Ree’s latest cookbook, The Pioneer Woman Cooks: The New Frontier, is officially on sale and we’re celebrating with a sweet treat! These mini glazed brownies are filled with chocolaty goodness and are the perfect dessert for the whole family to make and enjoy together. A wife of a cowboy, mother of growing kids, and a businesswoman with a packed work schedule, Ree knows exactly what it means to juggle life’s numerous demands simultaneously. The recipes in this book use everything from a skillet to a Dutch oven to an Instant Pot, so you’ll have a mix of options to suit...

A whole head of steamed cauliflower is great for slicing into cauliflower steaks, chopping into florets, or drizzling with sauce for a beautiful vegetarian dish. It’s easy and just takes a few minutes to steam it in the Instant Pot / pressure cooker.  Cauliflower is really having its 15 minutes of fame. Cauliflower rice, cauliflower gnocchi…this vegetable is being transformed into all sorts of things. Frank and I were served a whole head of cauliflower in a rich butter sauce two years ago in Paris that inspired this Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Lemon Butter Caper Sauce. (That recipe was the most...