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    If you tend to fall into cooking ruts, one easy way to snap out of it is to check out the holiday calendars of different cultures. Next up on my list of inspirations is the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year.

    This makes a ton of soup, and you can freeze it at will. It's the kind of soup that sells itself, hits the spot, and has so much flavor and such a high level of comfort-foodness that you instantly feel better about life while eating it.

    I remember the first party I ever hosted. I was 5 and my mom invited all of my kindergarten girlfriends and their moms for a holiday singing gathering. We knoshed on homemade cookies dunked in hot cocoa made from packets of powder dissolved in boiling water. Standing there around our piano, …

    When a friend recently gave me a bag of sweet potatoes, freshly dug and very dirty, I went through my file marked "Sweet Potatoes and Yams," and came up with the following recipes that sounded easy enough.

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    These days there's never a time when we can't find blueberries at the supermarket. But summertime is the season for the homegrown varieties. They're abundant right now and can be used in all kinds of recipes. One of my favorites is blueberries and vanilla ice cream — it's sweet and tart and …

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