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White beans and baby kale come together in a simple and quick soup. Food styling by Lisa Schumacher.

Kale looks back at pre-trend roots in a simple soup

May 31, 2019 at 1:36 p.m.

Kale salads and kale chips, the darling vegetable dishes last year, are still having an influence. Their ubiquity on dinner tables and at picnics has led to such supermarket products...

Sour cherry rugelach won the Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest in 1997. They feature cream cheese in the crust and walnuts in the filling.

Cherry-filled rugelach: cookie of the week

August 18, 2019 at 12:53 p.m.

Rugelach are one of the standout joys of the cookie world, but daunting even to think about preparing, with rolling out the dough, making and spreading the filling and rolling...

In 2006, blackout cookies took first place in the annual Holiday Cookie Contest. The cookie's name was inspired by a blackout caused by a snowstorm.

Double chocolate featured in cookie recipe of the week

August 18, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

Though people of all ages love the holidays, the joys of parties, gifts, feasts and cookies — especially cookies — are probably best seen through the eyes of children. The...

Roasted red peppers from a jar never tasted so good as when doctored with some herbs and melted cheese.

Laid-back pasta supper eases holiday stress

August 18, 2019 at 12:52 p.m.

You've just slid the umpteenth batch of cookies into the oven. Or you've been grocery shopping all day for that big Thanksgiving meal. Or you've been cleaning the house, wrapping...

Hazelnuts are toasted, ground, then stirred into a cookie dough, flavored with orange zest. The shaped cookies are dipped in dark chocolate, then drizzled with contrasting milk chocolate.

Holiday cookie recipe of the week: Hazelnut-chocolate combo

August 18, 2019 at 12:51 p.m.

Hazelnuts and chocolate go so well together that they're joined forever in a certain internationally known sweet, gooey spread. But in 2011, they came together in more sophisticated fashion in...

Holiday Cookie Contest: Voting ends today

August 23, 2019 at 8:01 a.m.

Today is the your last chance to vote for your favorite cookie. Voting in the baiduhai's annual Holiday Cookie Contest ends at 11:59 p.m. today, Nov. 7. This year...

Cranberry coin cookies made by Kim Koenig of Downers Grove feature the chopped fruit along with chopped pistachios.

‘Holiday Cookies’ featured recipe: Cranberry coins

August 23, 2019 at 8:01 a.m.

In 2013, a colorful cookie studded with cranberries and pistachios set a festive tone and took first place in Good Eating's annual Holiday Cookie Contest. We're featuring that cookie again...

The chocolate rolled cookie recipe can be cut into Halloween shapes, used to form walls of the grave or crumbled for the frozen pops.

3 Halloween desserts, from easy to crafty

May 31, 2019 at 1:35 p.m.

You want a special Halloween dessert, but you're no Martha Stewart? We've got a plan. Using three building blocks, you can choose from three desserts, each requiring different levels of...

A chocolate chip cookie is a good base to start experimenting, says Dorie Greenspan. Mrs. Levy's giant chocolate chip cookies recipe won first place in the Tribune's Holiday Cookie Contest in 2010.

Giant cookie delivers chocolate indulgence

August 23, 2019 at 8:01 a.m.

Good Eating's Holiday Cookie Contest has been one of our most popular projects every year. And now recipes from 25 years of the contest have been gathered into a new...

Paniscia is a very creamy dish, more wet than some risotti seen in the U.S. Chef Matteo Lorenzini prefers carnaroli rice for his recipe as it cooks up creamier than arborio.

Paniscia recipe: Risotto with sausage and beans

December 23, 2018 at 2:04 p.m.

Paniscia. The word sat at the top of the menu's short list of first courses. What's this strange word? A pasta shape? I had to know. It is a specialty...

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