After reading the title of this post, are you wondering what the heck rivels are? They are simple little free-form dumplings made by combining flour, egg, and salt, then dropped into broth or soup. Hearty, warming, and delicious!
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Thick & Hearty Meat Sauce
You’ll notice I didn’t call this a bolognese, and I didn’t call it a ragu. That’s because it’s just a no frills, weeknight friendly, good ol’ meat sauce like the kind I grew up eating. Ground beef, garlic, onions, canned tomatoes. It doesn’t get much simpler!
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Harvest Salad with Leftover Turkey
This salad is the perfect combo of savory and sweet, fantastic textures and Fall flavors! Fiddlehead in State College, PA is the mastermind, but since it’s only available seasonally, I had to recreate it!
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Cheesy Squash & Brown Rice Casserole
This casserole is super hearty and delicious! It features even more VEGGIES than brown rice, and it makes a giant pan; so you can enjoy it all week!
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Sausage & Sweet Potato Stuffed Banana Peppers
Sweet potatoes pull double duty in this recipe; their sweetness pairs perfectly with the spicy sausage and peppers, and their texture gives a great hearty “stuffing” vibe and also provides binding action.
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Buffalo Ground Turkey Loaded Crinkle Fries
Okay so maybe 4 of the last 16 recipes I posted have been buffalo-flavored-something. If you are what you eat, then I guess maybe I’m 25% buffalo. This buffalo ground turkey meat is so easy to make, with only 5 ingredients + whatever toppings you want for your fries!
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Hot Pepper Mustard (for canning)
The perfect spicy, sweet, tangy condiment that you never knew you always wanted! Kind of a mix between a hot pepper relish and a sweet mustard, people freak out over this mustard!
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Rhubarb Bars
Rhubarb season may be over, but I had to put these bars here for safe keeping!
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Grilled Eggplant & Red Pepper Sandwiches with Garlic Basil Goat Cheese
SO simple. SO delicious. Toasted hoagie rolls layered with grilled eggplant and grilled red peppers, all pulled together with a tangy, garlicky, basil-y goat cheese spread.
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Buffalo Chicken Sweet Potato Noodle Bake
This buffalo chicken "pasta" bake is super easy to throw together! The hardest part is spiralizing the sweet potatoes (which takes some muscles!), but after that, you basically throw everything (raw) into a casserole dish, bake it, stir it, bake it some more, and dive face first into buffalo-chicken-goodness.
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