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Lazy Man’s Ciopinno Recipe

Italian Fish & Seafood Stew A Lazy Man's Ciopinno, it's seafood stew packed with fresh fish and fresh shrimp, all hovering in a light tomato-y broth. For those of us who live far from saltwater and a waterside fish market, it's a seafood-lovers's dream. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ COMPLIMENTS! "I made this ... with haddock and king prawns. It was fantastic!" ~ Craig Add yours, leave a comment, below! BEST RECIPES! Lazy Man's Ciopinno Made the List! Best Recipes of 2003 Communal Stew Pots to High-End Restaurants So we've seen pictures of those big bowls of seafood stew at restaurants, right, especially along the Pacific and Mediterranean coasts? Ciopinno is a sight to be seen, an outright seafood spectacle: broth-filled bowls overflowing with fresh mussels and fresh clams cracked open, crab legs hanging over the side. That's ciopinno [pronounced, at least to my American ear, tchee-uh-PEEN-yo] and the name j

One Quick Tip:
My Most-Used Kitchen Tool,
a Garbage Bowl or Compost Bowl

Hey, y'all. No recipe today but I'm so excited to dish on the one kitchen tool I use every single day, a a Rachael Ray-style "garbage bowl" and "compost bowl". With all my tips and tricks, you just might decide that you need one too! Practical, Inexpensive Kitchen Tools for Real Cooks in Real Kitchens. No Purchase Required. What're you waiting for?! So Helpful!!

Homemade Chocolate Sauce In-a-Flash

Invest ten minutes and five pantry ingredients and you've got a sweet, chocolate-y, pourable, squeezable chocolate sauce! Real Food, Family-Tested & Fast, Mere Minutes to the Table Ice Cream Bowl. Budget Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Great for Meal Prep & Food Gifts. Easy DIY. Naturally Gluten Free.

One Quick Tip:
How to Freeze Tomato Paste in Convenient Portions

How to wrap leftover tomato paste to freeze in convenient portions. This is the first of an occasional series of posts I'm going to call "One Quick Tip" ... because, well, each one will include a single quick tip, quick to absorb, easy to adopt, memorable to use. Do you have One Quick Tip you'd like to share? Leave a comment or send me a quick e-mail via recipes@kitchen-parade.com . This week, how about we collect tips on how to preserve/save/use up little bits of food stuffs, something that would otherwise go to waste? Old or new idea, big or small idea, I'd love to know how you run your kitchen! WHAT IS TOMATO PASTE? Tomato paste is a much-condensed tomato pur̩e. In the U.S. anyway, it usually comes in a tiny three-ounce can and a still-small six-ounce can. You can also find tomato paste in convenient tubes Рyou squeeze it out like toothpaste Рbut it's harder to find and is often more expensive. WHY FREEZE TOMATO PASTE? So if you ever use

Slow Cooker Curried Vegetable Stew

We're an open-minded bunch, right? So we won't hold it against this recipe, will we, that it's called "curried"? A curry, after all, is just a spice mix and we all know what the right mix of spices does to foods, vegetables and meats alike, right? A vegetable stew strikes such the right note for January, for any month really, but especially a month when it feels so good to return to what's fresh and what's healthy and what's, you know, every-day delicious versus sugar-and-butter laden holiday-delicious. So please, if there's anyone in the kitchen who's prone to say, "I don't like curry" then please, just think of this as a "Spiced Vegetable Stew". I'm willing to bet, you'll love it. Real Food, Fresh & Flexible. Not just vegan, Vegan Done Real . Great for Meal Prep. Low Cal. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free. Paleo. Primal. All that Good Stuff!

Best Recipes of 2013

Favorite recipes from 2013, yours and mine both, just one "best" recipe per month. Looking back, does it strike you as it does me that my recipes are becoming simpler, more family-friendly – still real food and still healthy, flavor-forward and seasonal of course, those are the touchstones of my food sensibility, after all – but also more ready for preparation on a whim? Is your food sensibility evolving too? What was new in 2013, what do you look forward to in 2014? First, your favorite recipes! Each one is pictured in the collage above. Starting in the center , Kitchen Parade's top recipe for 2013, homey comfort food, a simple Hamburger Casserole . You couldn't get enough of this! Now, clockwise from the upper lefthand corner. First, Easy Skinny Turkey Roll-ups with Fresh Veggies , these are such an easy lunch, they keep and are great to carry along. Next, my own obsession for a few weeks, so easy to put together on a whim, just tortillas topped wit