SUNDAY | Family Enjoy family day with Pan-Seared Flat Iron Steaks (see recipe) for dinner. On the side, your own scalloped potatoes are good along with fresh broccoli, mixed greens and multigrain bread. Buy a carrot cake for dessert.
Alongside the beauty queens of squashes — the green, gold and white acorn; the pale yellow delicata, striped with forest green; the bright red-orange red kuri; and the comically shaped turban — butternut squash is the wallflower.
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In Mexico, chocolate isn’t just for dessert. Molé (pronounced MOH-lay, think “guacamole”) is a savory sauce made from onions, garlic, peppers, spices — and just a smidge of dark chocolate stirred in to add a richness and complexity.
Frank Annecchini cooks with the passion of his Italian heritage. An adventurous chef, Annecchini doesn’t limit his repertoire to an Italian menu. He’s also daring enough to prepare Mexican, Asian and Middle Eastern foods.
Pizza preferences are personal, as personal as boxers or briefs, Pepsi or Coke, MU or KU. In Kansas City we are blessed with an abundance of pizzerias serving all sorts of pies: thin-crust, thick crust, gluten-free or cheese stuffed.
I approached this year’s Missouri State Wine Competition with trepidation, but not because I thought the wines wouldn’t be good. The time is long past when the Missouri wine industry should have to convince anyone that it is creating acceptable wines. Those who continue to avoid Missouri’s best wines probably believe that the Earth is flat and that global warming isn’t happening.
