A seething mass of turgid drama.

This week's Resolution Recipe: Rillettes... For Science!
I thought I had made this recipe before, but if so I can't find it. So I'm treating it as new.
"It gets right to the heart of what's good: pork, pork fat, salt, pepper, and time."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Small-Batch Biscuits.
"With just five ingredients and ten minutes of prep time, you can have two golden, tender biscuits ready in time for breakfast."

America's Test Kitchen delved into making fruit cobbler some time ago - their conclusion was that it is impossible to get a consistent bake on the biscuit topping when it is on the fruit; the underside always is doughy. (Confirmed with experience, although I usually don't mind.) Their suggestion was to make deconstructed cobbler, with baked fruit cooked separately and topped with a biscuit. That's what we did here - we each had a small Pyrex pan of cooked apricot/sugar/cinnamon, with a split biscuit on top. It was lovely... but I will take apricot cobbler in pretty much any form during the season.
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Foolproof Apricot Jam.
"Apricots are one of the best fruits to make jam with thanks to their natural acidity and fragrance. Plus, you don't have to peel them."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: The Black Stallion cocktail.
I had planned to make rhubarb ice cream, but apparently it hasn't been a banner year for rhubarb here and there wasn't any available last week. Rhubarb rhubarb arugula. So I made nectarine ice cream instead. But since it was the same base as apricot ice cream but with only a related fruit substituted, I didn't think that was really a "new" recipe. So instead -

"Consider this a neo-tiki Negroni."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Cheesy Baked Pasta.
"It's seasoned with plenty of garlic, oregano, and fennel seed."
( your definition of 'plenty' needs work )

This week's Resolution Recipe: Lemony Turkey and White Bean Soup.
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Resolution Recipes are probably on hiatus for a couple weeks. I have eaten into my buffer (ha), so I will have to get back into it when things free up a bit.

This week's Resolution Recipe: Pasta with Chickpeas.
Italian poor food.
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Pasta with Asparagus.
"This dish is simple and elegant."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Turkey and Bean Tamale Pie.
"A tamale pie has little to do with an actual Latin American tamale. But the dish is retro comfort food you wax nostalgic for whether it was part of your childhood or not."
( It was not part of mine... nevertheless )

This week's Resolution Recipe: Roasted Root Veg with Mozzarella.
"I like to make this in the dead of winter, when root vegetables are pretty much the only viable options at the farmers' market and I'm desperate for a little color on the table."
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