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Slow Cooker Chicken Tortilla Soup

We are skeptical of most slow cooker recipes, but chicken tortilla soup is genuinely suited to the format. Everything goes in raw in the morning. The chicken breasts braise low and slow in a smoky broth of fire-roasted tomatoes, green chiles, cumin, smoked paprika, and …

No-Cook Spicy Tuna Rice Bowl

This is the bowl we make when takeout is tempting and we would rather not. Spicy tuna over sushi rice with creamy avocado and crisp cucumber, for a fraction of what a poke bowl costs, and it holds up for lunch prep as well as …

Pumpkin Sauce Spaghetti and Meatballs

Spaghetti and meatballs doesn’t need reinventing, but this is a version we keep coming back to. Pumpkin puree in a crushed tomato base makes a sauce richer and slightly sweeter than straight marinara, velvety enough to coat the pasta properly. It’s a natural fit for …

Potato and Cottage Cheese Pierogi

Pierogi are Polish dumplings: rounds of soft dough folded over a potato and cottage cheese filling, boiled, then usually fried in butter. They are also a project, and that is part of the appeal. You make the dough, let it rest, boil the potatoes, cook …

Salmonella sickens 16 in Sweden

A Salmonella outbreak in Sweden has been linked to a type of produce. Sixteen people fell sick in the Salmonella Napoli outbreak that was suspected to have been caused by arugula from Italy. The Public Health Agency of Sweden (Folkhälsomyndigheten) said patients are eight men and …