Tomato Fennel Soup: Light, Tasty and Healthy

I adore those huge bulbs of fennel, slice thin and cooked down until they are sweet and savory. Pair it with some roasted tomatoes and you’ve got a winning alternative to the same old tomato soup.

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Got a great tomato recipe? Enter the Muir Glen contest

Calling all Tomato Connoisseurs!

As a Muir Glen® Tomato Connoisseurs’ Club member, we want you to be one of the first to hear about a special recipe contest from Muir Glen and Chow.com featuring your favorite—tomatoes.

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Entries are being accepted now through April 21, 2009, so get cooking! Your entry needs to be an original recipe that uses at least one whole can of Muir Glen brand organic canned tomatoes. The recipes will be evaluated based on taste, creativity, ease of preparation, and appropriateness to the contest theme. To submit your recipe entry and for the official contest rules, go to http://www.chow.com/contests/muirglen

Rich Italian sausage pasta sauce recipe

When my husband, Ron, having been just out of the hospital with a pacemaker, said he had a yen for some of my fine spaghetti the other night, I couldn’t say no. Spaghetti is one of his basic ‘food groups’ - the man must have spaghetti. My sauce, usually wonderful, was particularly spectacular - so I thought I would share with you, gentle reader.

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