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Sara's Weeknight Meals
Family Choices
Season 5
Episode 508
Sara has always found ways to please kids' finicky palates with food adults love too. Like her easy weeknight mini meatloaves baked in a muffin tin that kids love to make themselves. There’s also odd lots mac and cheese, a dish using leftovers from the fridge and a creamsicle drink for dessert. Speaking of cheese, we also visit a Benedictine nun who is the world’s foremost expert on raw cheeses.
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Holiday showstopping dishes for everyone: vegetarians and meat-lovers alike.

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Two meals morph into four for easy weeknight cooking.

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Two recipes elevated by melty cheese: French Onion Soup Burger and Alsatian Onion Pie.

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Sara goes to the source for parmesan cheese, prosciutto di parma and local tomatoes.

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Sara’s on the pizza trail in Naples, Italy, where pizza was born.

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A food shopping tour in Rome's hip Trastevere area ends with a delicious vegetarian pizza.

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Sara kicks off a visit to Rome with a street food tour led by American Ex Pat Katie Parla.

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Taco nights with Sara’s duck tacos and nacho pie and a Cuban twist from a Miami blogger.

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California recipes – sushi with Sacramento farmer, and shrimp tikka with a cookbook club.

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Three cool recipes – seafood gazpacho, watermelon screwdrivers and steak salad.

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Sara travels to Turkey and Spain to learn new recipes for meatballs.