​​Recipes on Rotation

​​Hi! 

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​​I overheard a cookbook author on a podcast say that if you have 15 recipes, you have 3 weeks worth of meals, no repeats. Which brings me to this doc, a work-in-progress that hopefully proves useful the next time you are low on ideas. I’ll keep adding to it / improving / editing. Comments and feedback are - more than - welcome. 
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​​I included recipes that I have made more than a bunch of times and I keep going back to, i.e. they are
  • ​​on regular rotation, i.e., weeknight family meal 
  • ​​a dinner party staple
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​​General notes:
  • ​​Heads up, these are majority Italian / Mediterranean recipes. Shamefully, very few are my mom’s because I host a website for our family recipes (host = Christmas gift for my niece two years ago that hasn’t been updated since), including her infamous microwave Risotto al Pomodoro. 
  • ​​We cook at least 5 days a week. About once a week the kids have the Italian version of lazy fast food: some kind of tortellini. When we were in NY, the ones from Eataly were hard to beat. Giovanni Rana are a good commercial alternative. For those in NL, I often buy these from AH. Or, corona-update: buy wonton wrappers and make these. 
  • ​​I like leftovers. I freeze them, eat them for lunch, feed them to the kids when we have other plans for the evening.
  • ​​Always in my fridge and/or freezer: 
  • ​​It took a while, but finally got into the habit of making chicken stock and now have it stocked (ha) in my freezer for soups and risotto. 
  • ​​parmesan
  • ​​pecorino: I don’t use it much, but try to keep a piece in the freezer (not ideal) for pesto 
  • ​​lemons
  • ​​greek yoghurt
  • ​​raw nuts (almonds, pecans, hazelnuts)
  • ​​My go-to websites when I have an ingredient and need some ideas. 
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​​*) nth = nice-to-have = not having this ingredient shouldn’t stop you from making the dish, in my opinion
​​**) if you hover over the margin on the left, you will see an index! 
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​​Pasta ​🍝​

​​Kale Pasta 

  • ​​This makes enough sauce for a 12oz / 500g serving of pasta
  • ​​Bon Appetit has a similar version with pistachios that’s creamy and lovely as well. And inspired me to eat it with whole wheat pasta which was actually…nice 
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​​Sausage Broccoli Rabe Pasta 

  • ​​Orecchiette are typical, but any short pasta works well
  • ​​I haven’t found broccoli rabe in Amsterdam - it must be a New York delicacy ​😜​ - so I have substituted with plain broccoli, which is fine, but better with rabe. 
  • ​​No yellow raisins, use black raisins or currants
  • ​​Chicken stock and raisins are nth, but def make this “extra”
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​​Julia Turshen’s Lasagna