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Pizza with Butternut Squash Puree, Goat Cheese & Pancetta

I absolutely love having friends and family over for dinner.  I look forward to it like a child looks forward to Christmas morning.  I’ll spend the weeks leading up to the dinner making list after list (I’m a self-declared list-making addict), processing my thoughts, playing with different menu ideas and driving my husband crazy with ‘what do you think about…’ …

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Pasta Fagioli

For as long as I can remember I have heard my parents talk about Venice, Italy.  My Dad studied there twice, once for several months before he met my mother and returning after she entered his life.  They spent an incredible three months there, enjoying a once-in-a-lifetime honeymoon while my father studied architecture.  My siblings and I were lucky enough …