With sides of mashed potatoes, bread stuffing, and syrupy sweet potatoes, our Thanksgiving menu begged for something else. I wanted to add a salad, and lucky for me, my mother-in-law found this recipe for romaine salad with pears, blue cheese and pecans.

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This salad delivers, with enough self-confidence and poise to hold its own on any table, and balance out all that starch. Now, a big bowl of green crisp romaine lettuce, with blue cheese crumbles, perfectly ripe pears and crunchy sweet pecans, is an official and welcome side at our Thanksgiving feast. For this I am thankful.

Hi everybody! This homemade whole wheat parsley fettuccine gets its gorgeous green color from mixing parsley and green onions into whole wheat flour and eggs–in the food processor! Add a delicious 2-ingredient goat cheese sauce and a flourish of chopped hazelnuts and green onion and you’ve got yourself a fabulous pasta dinner!

This recipe shows you how to make homemade pasta dough and a simple sauce. If you’re thinking never mind—there’s no way you are making your own pasta—you must at least whisk up this amazing goat cheese sauce to go with purchased fettuccine.
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