ARTICLES BY KATIE WORKMAN/ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Time to banish the not-chicken-again weeknight dinner blues

Does back-to-school time have you humming a few bars of the weeknight dinner blues?

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Less can be more when it comes to great fresh tomato sauce

Tomato lovers wait for this moment all year, that moment when the plants in the garden are struggling under the weight of those gorgeous red (or yellow or orange or even green) orbs, and the tables at the farmers markets threaten to buckle under the load. We slice and eat …

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Quick, filling grilled veggie salad built on a base of farro

At this point, many of us have embraced whole grains, become friendly with brown rice, maybe even casual acquaintances with quinoa.

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Making the most of summer's vegetable glut with a Cobb salad

At the end of the summer, we all are awash in corn, zucchini and tomatoes. This is, by and large, a good thing. But it begs for a bit of creativity in the kitchen so the end-of-summer vegetables don't mount up and threaten to overtake us.

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