A seething mass of turgid drama.

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: 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: Tortellini and Spinach Soup...For Science!
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Roasted Cod, Potatoes, and Anchovy.
"Rubbing a garlicky anchovy paste on pretty much any kind of fish before roasting is possibly my favorite way to add flavor without much work."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Black Bean Burrito Bowl...BFor BScience!
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Wild Rice and Mushroom Salad.
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Side note: I knew that the English term "rocket" came from French roquette. I was curious and now know that the French word was borrowed from the standard Italian word ruchetta, derived from the original Latin eruca. "Arugula" is a loan word from a "non-standard Italian dialect" (popularized in English in the '60s by NY Times cookbook author Craig Claiborne). That makes "rocket" and "arugula" cognates. The more you know!

Resolution Recipes are going on hiatus for a couple weeks.

This week's Resolution Recipe: Ham and Goat's Cheese Couronne.
"I'm very fond of the French 'crown', because it's a great way of getting flavour into a dough."
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Garlic Noodles with Mushrooms.
"This recipe takes the beautiful simplicity of San Francisco-style garlic noodles and marries it with ribbons of summer squash mushrooms, a little cilantro, and Parmesan."
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This week's bonus Resolution Recipe: Yet Another Sourdough Bread Recipe. (Title given by me)
This may seem like a lot of work, but it's mostly planning and scheduling.
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