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  • Chicken Piccata with Wilted Greens

    Chicken Piccata with Wilted Greens


    Chicken piccata, an Italian-American staple of thin pan-fried cutlets enveloped in a buttery rich and lemony bright sauce with briny capers, is truly special. It’s easy, calls for mostly pantry-ish ingredients and is just delicious. In this recipe, there’s the addition of wilted greens that are
  • Chopped Bacon Salad

    Chopped Bacon Salad


    For this salad, sweet romaine, fennel and bitter chicories get tossed in a fried garlic and pine nut-oregano vinaigrette. ButcherBox Bacon and creamy feta top this salad that is simple yet complex with textures and greens, nuts and cheese. This is the beauty of a chopped salad—almost anything can
  • Pasta Bolognese with Spinach and Parmesan

    Pasta Bolognese with Spinach and Parmesan


    This makes quite a large batch of saucy and savory slow-cooked bolognese, famed meaty sauce that hails from Bologna, Italy. Here, ground beef, pork and bacon are the main characters, but they are supported by a vegetable medley, warm and cooling spices, orange peel and tomato to keep things bright
  • Sheetpan Sirloin with Yogurt and Chili Crisp

    Sheetpan Sirloin with Yogurt and Chili Crisp


    This recipe is basically about how big things (flavor) come from small packages (sirloin tips). Super meaty and tender, sirloin tips do very well with minimal effort and cooking time. In this recipe, the tips are roasted hot and fast for an easy, peasy sheet pan dinner with roasted carrots,
  • Scallops in XO Sauce with Fried Noodles

    Scallops in XO Sauce with Fried Noodles


    In the kitchens of seafood restaurants near 1980s Hong Kong Harbor might just be where XO sauce was invented, or it also might have first been made at the luxe Spring Moon restaurant, also in the Chinese city. Either way, the sauce has become a staple flavor booster for many