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Looking for a healthy and fresh winter salad? Try an Italian orange salad full of sliced cara cara oranges, bitter radicchio, and toasted pecans all tossed with a lemony honey mustard dressing. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Orange, Radicchio, and Pecan Salad

This smooth and creamy cauliflower soup is swirled with blue cheese and topped with truffle oil for great comfort food on a chilly day! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Creamy Cauliflower Blue Cheese Soup with Truffle Oil

Creamy burrata, crispy shallots and ripe tomatoes along with fresh green beans give my Italian green bean salad plenty of flavor and balance. Add in a homemade Italian dressing and you'll want to make this salad every week! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Green Bean Salad with Burrata and Crispy Shallots

Making crispy fried shallots is a simple and easy process! All you need are three ingredients and a little time to get them golden brown. Gluten-free. Vegan. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

How to Make Crispy Fried Shallots

Lemon basil risotto is topped with a luxurious swirl of creamy burrata in this flavorful Italian main course. Vegetarian and gluten-free! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Lemon Basil Risotto with Burrata

Potato Salad Nicoise - This tasty and relaxed version of salad nicoise mixes green beans, potatoes, olives, and tomatoes with a lemony, anchovy spiked dressing. Add all the ingredients to the salad bowl, toss with the dressing, and dinner is served! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Potato and Green Bean Salad Nicoise

Leftover Roast Vegetable Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette - This salad is a tasty and easy way to use leftover roast vegetables and roast meats along with whatever salad fixings you have in the fridge. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Leftover Roast Beef Salad with Shallot Vinaigrette

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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

Fall, winter, spring, or summer, you'll love sipping a simple maple lime bourbon sour! This drink is the perfect balance of sweet and sour combined with smooth whiskey to make a refreshing cocktail. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #cocktailrecipes #drinkrecipes #drinks #bourbon #cockails

Maple Lime Bourbon Sour

Roasted cauliflower and sweet potato combine with tender French green lentils and peppery arugula in this delicious warm salad all topped with a creamy yogurt and tahini dressing. Perfect for a healthy Mediterranean vegetarian dinner! | justalittlebitofbacon.com #saladrecipes #mediterraneanfood #lentilrecipes #frenchlentils #cauliflower #sweetpotatoes

Cauliflower, Sweet Potato, and Lentil Salad with Creamy Yogurt Dressing

For an easy and healthy dessert, bake my favorite apple cranberry crisp with fresh cranberries and oatmeal topping! Easier than a pie and great for holidays and parties. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #applepie #applecrisp #applecranberry #holidayrecipe #fallbaking #winterbaking #cranberries #apples

Apple Cranberry Crisp with Oatmeal Topping

For simple oven roasted whole chicken with crispy skin and juicy meat, try my recipe for roasted spatchcocked chicken along with tender root vegetables! Great for Sunday dinner, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Easter, and any other holidays. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #roastchicken #chickendinner #chickenrecipes #christmasrecipes #holidayrecipes #thanksgivingrecipes

Roasted Spatchcocked Chicken with Root Vegetables

This creamy, spicy roast pumpkin soup is full of Spanish flavors like paprika and roasted red peppers and topped with crispy pancetta. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Spicy Roast Pumpkin Soup – Spanish Style

Cinnamon Sugar Apple Fritters - A snap to make, these apple fritters are little pillows of happiness full of chopped apples and covered in cinnamon sugar. And you just need one, little easy trick to turn out perfectly shaped fritters every time. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Cinnamon Sugar Apple Fritters

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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

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

Authentic Italian marinara sauce is cooked low and slow to create a thick and flavorful sauce made in the manner of my family tradition. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Authentic Homemade Italian Marinara Sauce

Dinner comes together in a flash with this recipe for kid-pleasing, one-pot ground beef pasta skillet topped with pesto and ricotta. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Ground Beef Skillet Pasta with Pesto and Ricotta

Slow Cooker Potato Leek Soup - Comforting, creamy, cheesy, and now even easier to make, this potato leek soup delivers all the flavor for only minutes of work. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Cheesy Slow Cooker Potato Leek Soup

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

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