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Baked Rigatoni with Broccoli, Green Olives and Pancetta

It’s been a whirlwind few weeks at work, with travel to such exotic locales as Des Moines and Dallas and a couple of nights of next to no sleep. Having started my career as an investment banking analyst, a role notorious for its neverending high pressure and many sleepless nights, it’s hard for me to imagine now how I did that for so many years. Maybe it’s part of getting older, or maybe I burned out a little too hard those first few years, but nowadays I need a lot of sleep. A few all-nighters will mess me up in a way that takes me a week to recover from.

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Farro and Broccoli Salad

 

This week I achieved a personal milestone- one that can only signal I’ve reached full adulthood at age 32. I haven’t gotten married, or had kids, or moved out of my shared bachelorette pad. I’m in fact no closer to doing any of these things than I was last week or, quite frankly, 2 years ago. But what I have done, readers, is purchase my first real (i.e. not from Ikea) mattress.

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Broccoli-Spinach Soup with Crispy Broccoli Florets and Croutons

It feels like a very long time ago that I was slurping my way through soup after soup. It also feels a little strange to be writing about soup, because I’m sitting on an island in a Nicaraguan lake sweating through my sundress at the moment. I know, poor me. But this is a selfless act, because I know that in many less fortunate parts of the world, it’s the absolute doldrums of February, which means you feel like it will never NOT be soup weather. So I wanted to share this recipe in case that’s the predicament you’re finding yourself in- to warm you up and remind you that winter can be cozy and delicious.

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Broccoli Quinoa Salad

I have a well-documented obsession with bulgur, I adore farro in preparations from soups to salads, I have about 8 jars filled with different types of rice, and I think pearled barley is incredibly underrated. But I typically give quinoa a big “no, thank you.”

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