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Welcome ladies! Here is a place to share our most beloved recipes…everyday staples that get us through the week, time-consuming blockbusters when we want to awe with our cookerly prowess, nourishing adult beverages to ease us into evening. How To Add a Recipe Recipe of the Day

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Red Lentil Soup This Red Lentil Soup is from Heidi Swanson's excellent blog 101 Cookbooks. I made mine with low sodium chicken stock since I have never in my life encountered "good-tasting vegetable stock." As a... Vegetarian Baked Ziti This is what I made with my fresh ricotta—I was looking for ease, savory ease. I used a jarred tomato sauce (the horror!) to keep things simple, but if you have the time consider replacing with... Butternut Squash My parents, being elderly, they must have butternut squash at least once a week. I peal the skin off the squash. Cut in into large cubes then boil it until tender. You could steam them or roast... Pumpkin Latte 'Tis the Fun Fall Drink of the season. May make 2…or 1. Don't worry too much about the proportions. This is a drink you just really can't mess up. If it doesn't taste amazing, sugar is the... Fresh Ricotta Cheese I did a lot of research before I began. Most recipes online call for using whole milk and cream, but since I had 2%, that's what I went with. In the recipe that follows, I'll include alternative... see all new recipes... Add a Recipe	Your "kitchen" is your own personal corner of the website where you can post favorite recipes, cooking tips, links to treasured cookbooks, photos, and anything else you'd like. Amanda's Kitchen Claire's Kitchen Kajsa's Kitchen Paula's Kitchen Stacy's Kitchen Set Up Your Kitchen!	See and post cooking lore at the Ladies Recipes blog! Anyone can contribute. Halloween Brunch stacita A little late, I know! But here are a few very important photos from Amanda's Halloween Brunch. It was a brilliant affair, complete with pumpkin waffles, hot apple cider, and old school horror movies. It was just the way I wanted to pass my Halloween! Here's the menu and some photos: Great vegetarian recipe website ClaireMere If you haven't already, have a look at 101 Cookbooks, a blog and travelogue with (mostly) vegetarian fare. She's also a photographer, so it's really fun. The Ladies' Favorites stacita Check out the list of our favorite recipes after one year of sharing! The Ladies' Favorites read more....

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Feel free to browse the site! If you'd like to share your own recipes, first become a member. Then click here to get started. Make sure to set up your own Kitchen Space! Organizational Tips Help us find your recipes! If you create a recipe, make sure you create a link in one of the side-bar menus so other people can find it. Your recipe can appear in as many menus as you like. If you create a recipe on your Ladies' Kitchen page, you can also create another link in the side-bar menu. Use tags! Click the blue "tags" link at the bottom of any page. Insert tags like your name (so people can search your recipes), category words like "vegetarian", dish types like "salad", cuisine type like "Portuguese", or main ingredients like "avocado." New recipes appear automatically on the Homepage and on the New Recipes! page. Site Guidelines Only members can edit and add pages. Any member can invite other members. Any member can create, change or add to any page. Post only your own original recipes or your unique versions of common recipes; if your recipe is derived from another website or cookbook, please direct readers to the source instead of posting the recipe. Feel free to "sign" your recipes. It's ok to add your own version of a recipe already written by someone else. Just add your name to distinguish it: "Stacy's Pasta Sauce." Protect the integrity of other people's recipes (see below). Protect the Integrity of Other People's Recipes Making comments and suggestions on other people's recipes is welcome! However, do it in such a way that the person's original recipe is not compromised. Some suggestions: You can add a heading at the bottom of their recipe, i.e., "Variation by Stacy" You can add a comment at the bottom of their recipe, i.e., by first creating a category "Comments" and then typing in something like "Basil works well here!" You can add your own version of the recipe on the same page, i.e., "Stacy's Version of Eggplant Parm." You can add a link to your own version or a similar recipe on another page. For instance, if Amanda has a recipe "Amanda's Eggplant Parm", Stacy can add a link to the bottom of Amanda's recipe for "Stacy's Eggplant Parm."

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