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Summer Tomato Roundup - This roundup features 15 delicious summer recipes for tomatoes, including soup, sandwich, pasta, and salad recipes. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

15 Fresh Ways to Use Summer Tomatoes – Recipe Roundup

Ingredient Spotlight: Hakurei Turnips - Turnips are not just for cooler weather. Mild, even sweet Hakurei turnips are wonderful in salads, simple gratins, sliced into sandwiches, and more! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Ingredient Spotlight: Mild, Sweet Hakurei Turnips

Ingredient Spotlight: Swiss Chard - Swiss chard is a wonderful, hearty green that is great in soups, gratins, pastas, and many other recipes. Its flavor is a cross between spinach and beets and you'll love cooking with it once you give it a try. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Ingredient Spotlight: All About Swiss Chard

Ingredient Spotlight: Rhubarb - With its deep, red stalks and intensely sour and puckery flavor, rhubarb is great in desserts as well as in stews and savory sauces. If all you know is strawberry rhubarb pie, you'll be impressed by rhubarb's versatility. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Ingredient Spotlight: Cooking with Rhubarb

State of the Blog - Most Popular Blog Posts of January 2016 | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Most Popular Posts – January 2016

Thanksgiving Drinks and Desserts Roundup Post - All the drinks and desserts I've made that would be a wonderful part of a Thanksgiving holiday dinner. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Thanksgiving Roundup Post – Drinks and Desserts

Thanksgiving Sides Roundup Post - All the sides I've made that would be a wonderful part of a Thanksgiving holiday dinner. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Thanksgiving Roundup Post – Sides

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Hello, I’m Annemarie

Welcome to my kitchen! I’m a Italian-American girl who loves fresh foods, local ingredients, and all sorts of comfort foods. Here you will find Mediterranean flavors and recipes from a New England perspective.

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Winter Recipes

Pear Quick Bread with Streusel Topping - What to do with those overripe pears sitting on your counter? Make an easy pear quick bread from them! Great for breakfast, for snacks, and it freezes well. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Pear Quick Bread with Streusel Topping

Rich & Complex Traditional Bolognese Sauce - A long, slow simmer builds layers of flavor and makes this Bolognese sauce so rich and complex! Meaty, silky, and hearty. This is a sauce worth having on your stove all day long. Make some for today and freeze some for tomorrow. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Rich & Complex Traditional Bolognese Sauce

Pull out the Meyer lemons to give this classic NoLa cocktail a twist as you celebrate Fat Tuesday (or any day) with a cognac French 75. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Meyer Lemon and Cognac French 75 Cocktail

What is mizuna? What do you make with these leafy greens? What are the health benefits? Find recipes, history, and more in this ingredient spotlight.

What is Mizuna? Ingredient Spotlight

This is the best ever homemade deep dish apple pie! It's twice cooked for twice the apples - perfect for holidays, fall days, and Thanksgiving. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #applepie #thanksgiving #thanksgivingrecipes #dessertrecipe #pierecipe #holidaydessert

Best Ever Homemade Deep Dish Apple Pie

Learn how to make the best creamy shrimp bisque! This easy French recipe features a rich stock using the shells, tomato paste, and a bit of bourbon to create a wonderfully complex soup. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #shrimprecipes #seafoodrecipes #souprecipes #frenchfood #shrimp #bisque #french

Creamy Shrimp Bisque with Pancetta

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Italian comfort food of tomato, braised sausage, and pork shoulder ragu simmering on the stove is the perfect way to spend a chilly day. This pork ragu is easily doubled and freezes well. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Braised Pork Shoulder Ragu

My Favorite Bread and Sausage Stuffing - This classic combination of bread, pork sausage, aromatics, and lots of sage produces a stuffing that says Thanksgiving to me. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

My Favorite Sausage Bread Stuffing

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb - Butterflied lamb is rubbed overnight with a flavorful herb and garlic mixture and then quickly grilled for a perfect dinner. It takes just 15 minutes to bring this roast to a beautifully seared outside and medium rare inside. Great for Easter dinner or for any cookout get-together. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Grilled Butterflied Leg of Lamb with a Herb Rub

The fresh cranberries in these fresh cranberry cookies give them such a bright and zingy flavor which is completely different from dried cranberries! Don't just use fresh cranberries for sauce. Make cookies! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Fresh Cranberry Cookies

Leftover Lamb Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce - What to do with leftover lamb roast? Make these incredibly yummy lamb gyros and top them with a 5 minute tzatziki sauce. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Leftover Lamb Gyros with Tzatziki Sauce

Learn how to make the best homemade butterscotch sauce! This easy dessert sauce needs only a few minutes and a few ingredients for delicious old fashioned flavor! Use on ice cream, over cake, in buttercream frosting, and more. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #butterscotch #butterscotchsauce #dessertrecipes #dessertsauce #dessert

Old Fashioned Homemade Butterscotch Sauce

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