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Vegetable Lasagna [Star Icon] 4.8 (26 ratings)
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No-cook tomato sauce, no-cook cream sauce, and hassle-free veggie prep including a cool trick with coffee filters add up to a hearty and structurally sound vegetable lasagna that you can sink your teeth into. Holiday-worthy. Weeknight easy. Vegetarian friendly. Seasonally perfect. Test kitchen smarts on display in every simple step. [â] I have made this lasagna for years!! It is a holiday favorite as well as an anytime or âfor companyâ dish. Even people who think they donât like eggplant love it. I make it 2 days ahead but can also make the sauces or noodles ahead. –Suzanne P., All-Access Member [â] [Icon]
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Eggplant is full of water that will wash out the flavors of lasagna as it bakes in the oven. It’s also riddled with air pockets that act as a magnet for oil. Salting cubed eggplant and then microwaving it solves both problems: Microwaving not only speeds up salt’s ability to pull moisture out of the eggplant but also collapses the eggplant’s air pockets. (We set the eggplant on a double layer of coffee filters to absorb the excess moisture as it is released.) The result: low moisture, meaty-tasting eggplant that doesn't soak up too much oil when sautéed.
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Perfect-every-time, moist, flaky salmon takes patience. Though slow roasting is an uncommon technique for cooking fish, a long roast at a very low temperature gave us ultratender salmon. Finishing the dish with a buttery, lemony sauce poured over the cooked fish makes this a succulent, luxurious treat. You wonât want to cook salmon any other way. [â] This was outstanding!! May never make salmon any other way! The sauce was perfect for this dish—easy to make and so good. Served it with a Cook’s Country Grapefruit-Avocado Salad—another winner—and a lemon rice recipe. –Judy H., All-Access Member [â] [Icon]
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Strawberry Galette [Star Icon] 4.9 (11 ratings)
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Baked strawberry recipes seem simple to pull off, but all too often the results run more soup than showstopper. Donât let disappointing history stop you from strawberry dessert glory. This recipe solves the problems of soggy crust (ours stays crisp and is easy to make) and flooded filling (gelling helps) and also levels up any-season strawberries to concentrated, peak-of-season flavor.
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