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Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad

Packed with bacon, veggies, cheddar cheese, and ranch dressing, this bacon ranch pasta salad is a must for your next cookout.

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We Can’t Stop Making These Rice Cakes with Dulce de Leche and Dark Chocolate

Plain store-bought rice cakes get a major upgrade with dulce de leche and dark chocolate. It’s a heavenly treat that requires zero baking sk

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Oven Baked Hash Browns

Crispy Oven Hash Browns are baked in muffin tins using frozen or real potatoes. Perfectly golden without spending all that time at the stove

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Winter Squash and Kale Pasta With Pecan Breadcrumbs

Tender butternut squash, crunchy pecan breadcrumbs, and an entire bunch of kale come together to create fall bliss in pasta form.

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Garlicky Smashed Chickpeas With Corn

These aren’t your average crispy chickpeas–here, garlicky garbanzos get lightly smashed before frying, creating layers of texture.

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Cheesy Rice Porridge With Greens

This 5-ingredient rice porridge is pure cold-weather comfort in a bowl. (Did we mention it’s cheesy? It’s cheesy.)

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This was originally known as Morgan Hill Garlic Mushrooms, but since more people are familiar with Gilroy name from the annual Gilroy Garlic Festival in Gilroy, CA I am posting with the Gilroy name. This was from 1979 contest and oh so good. Marinated mushrooms became very popular in the late 1970's and this is a wonderful recipe highlighting both garlic and mushrooms.

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Carrot and Habanero Tamales

A tamal filled with carrots, habaneros, and garlic is chef Maricela Vega’s celebration of how the harvest from summer and fall floats into wintertime.

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Pasta With Mushrooms and Cashew Cream

Might you mistake this vegan cream for actual alfredo sauce? Maybe. Maybe not. It’s delicious either way.

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Tamarind Chicken Thighs With Collard Greens Salad

Tamarind concentrate gives this chicken its sticky, glossy quality, not to mention its sweet-and-sour flavor.

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Crispy Rice With Ginger-Citrus Celery Salad

To get the best texture, evenly distribute the rice in your pan and gently press down to flatten it. Don’t touch until you hear it crackle!

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Skillet Salmon With Pickle-y Salad

The award for best supporting actor goes to this bright, tart root vegetable salad. Slice the daikon and carrots as thinly as possible so there’s tons of surface area to absorb the coconut garlic glaze.

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Cuisine Noir is a multicultural digital food, wine and travel lifestyle magazine that shares delicious and entertaining stories from around the African Diaspora that savor the rich and diverse history that continues to influence the way the world eats.