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Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, begins on Sunday evening (Sept. 25), and the people in my house would get pretty ornery if I skipped the holiday's traditional brisket or kugel . But I also like to change up some dishes, like sides and desserts.

Even when they are tasty, creamy pasta sauces can be unappealingly heavy. A few bites and you鈥檙e done.

Ground beef is decadently dressed up with tangy blue cheese, red wine sauce

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Writer and actor Jenny Mollen has a knack for making her kids' lunches pop. She adds things like candy eyeballs to fruit and cuts funny shapes from vegetables. Her tips are in her new cookbook, 鈥淒ictator Lunches,鈥� including one for carrot bacon.

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Tuscany鈥檚 solution for stale bread, panzanella, is just the start of salad solutions for stale bread.

One of our secret ingredients to build flavor fast is miso. As an umami base, it helps balance and unify sweet and sour notes in everything from chicken to pasta, even cookies.