17 Easy Baked Pasta Recipes — StyleCaster

I don’t know if it’s the dreary weather or my higher-than-usual stress levels, but I’ve been craving pasta a lot lately. First, I just threw together simple stovetop pastas with whatever I had in the fridge. A few days in, though, I went on the hunt for a few easy baked pasta recipes that could … Continue reading 17 Easy Baked Pasta Recipes — StyleCaster

Dinner For Two: Mushroom & Shrimp Coconut Curry

Cook this: An incredibly delicious, Oscar-worthy pear and blue cheese savoury galette — National Post

Our cookbook of the week is French Appetizers by Québec City-based writer and food stylist Marie Asselin. Over the next two days, we’ll feature another recipe from the book and an interview with its author. To try another recipe from the book, check out: gougères, four ways. Marie Asselin devotes a chapter in French Appetizers… via … Continue reading Cook this: An incredibly delicious, Oscar-worthy pear and blue cheese savoury galette — National Post

Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

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The Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge protects 7800 acres of wetlands and forested areas that are an important migratory rest stop and habitat for over 200 species of birds and other wildlife.

Great Swamp was once the Glacial Lake Passaic formed by the retreat of the Wisconsin Glacier at the end of the last Ice Age. Today, the watershed feeds the Passaic River and serves to ease floodwaters and provides water purification for the surrounding water supply.

A good place to begin your visit to the refuge is the Helen C Fenske Visitor Center. Fenske was a community activist who campaigned to stop the Port Authority of NY/NJ from building an airport…

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Sparkling Hibiscus Orange Soda — Cooking with a Wallflower

Hibiscus tea with freshly squeezed orange juice topped with club soda and crushed ice. This sparkling hibiscus orange soda is refreshing and delicious, perfect with brunch or for entertaining. Happy Wednesday! This past weekend my cousin turned 30 so we went to Napa Valley to spend the day eating and wine tasting. Despite the cold… via … Continue reading Sparkling Hibiscus Orange Soda — Cooking with a Wallflower