sauce

Five delicious rubs to better your barbecues

This dish is part of the Valentine’s Day-worthy menu suggestion at the back of the cookbook. I was excited to see that I didn’t have to fire up the barbeque and that it incorporated a variety of tasty mushrooms. I picked up some shiitake and oyster mushrooms and set out to make our pre-Valentine’s Day dinner a week or two early, since we will likely never celebrate a romantic dinner on Feb. 14th again—it’s our son’s birthday the same day—I thought that we may as well enjoy this meal with some friends.

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Normally, when we think of creamy pasta sauce we think of unhealthy saturated fat-laden cream based pastas, but I say it’s time that we re-think this idea.

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