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Sunday Supper: Mexican Chicken Lasagna with Chorizo Beans
Sunday Brunch: Eggs Baked on Grits with Bacon and Tomatoes
Battle Your Hangover with Pizza from RedRocks in Washington DC
Video: Most Dangerous Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine

Sunday Supper: Mexican Chicken Lasagna with Chorizo Beans

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 12:18 PM PDT

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Cheesy, Latin-inspired lasagna, built with layered tortillas, chorizo-spiked beans and corn. [Photograph: Jennifer Olvera]

Lasagna feeds the masses and looks impressive. If you make every layer and every sauce from scratch, it's an inspiring, if time-consuming, affair. In this take, flour tortillas make an admirable stand-in for pasta, and fillings are swapped for Latin-tinged flavors: roasty tomato sauce made with ground chicken, smashed, spreadable chorizo beans, corn, and a mix of cheddar and pepper jack cheeses.

It's a flexible recipe, though, so swap out ingredients in your fridge and freezer at will. For example, use ground beef in place of chicken, or opt for tomatillo salsa instead of the tomato-based version called for here. Add other veggies of your choosing, be it sautéed zucchini; seasoned, thinly sliced, par-boiled potatoes; or roasted poblano rajas. Or eliminate the meat entirely, if that's your preference.

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About the author: Jennifer Olvera is a veteran food and travel writer and author of "Food Lovers' Guide to Chicago." Follow her on Twitter @olverajennifer.

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Sunday Brunch: Eggs Baked on Grits with Bacon and Tomatoes

Posted: 06 Jul 2013 10:48 AM PDT

Editor's note: Each Saturday morning we bring you a Sunday Brunch recipe. Why on Saturday? So you have time to shop and prepare for tomorrow.

[Photograph: Sydney Oland]

Grits are one of my favorite breakfast staples. Here, I've added eggs and a quick sauté of tomatoes and bacon for a quick and easy brunch. If you'd like, you can prepare it in individual serving bowls so that each guest gets their own dish—it makes for a striking presentation, (and makes serving much more simple).

Tomatoes add sweetness and acidity to the creamy grits and smoky bacon. If you have a few peppers in your fridge, they make a great addition to the mix. Best of all, the whole thing's ready to be eaten in about a half hour.

About the author: Sydney Oland lives in Somerville, Mass. Find more information at sydneyoland.com (or read eatingnosetotail.com)

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Battle Your Hangover with Pizza from RedRocks in Washington DC

Posted: 05 Jul 2013 10:10 AM PDT

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[Photo: Justin Cohen]

There was a time that I believed a fried-egg topped cheeseburger was the pinnacle of a good hangover meal. The runny egg's the key, of course, oozing over a food that everyone already loves. Our friends at RedRocks Neopolitan Bistro have taken this philosophy to heart with their Hangover Pizza.

Their creation is a pizza layered with housemade ground sausage and fingerling potatoes (which are roasted a bit before going on the pie). They crack an egg in the center, along with a sprinkle of parmesan cheese, then move the pie into the brick oven to cook for three to five minutes. (It's hot in there.)

Naturally, my first step in eating it was to break the runny yolk of the egg and spread it around the pizza... and the result was glorious. It made me wonder for a moment if I should be putting a runny yolk on all my meals. Combined with the sausage, melted cheese, potatoes, mild tomato sauce, and slightly charred thin crust, the egg took this pizza to a perfect limbo state between a great breakfast and lunch and left me in a state of bliss.

I should warn that it is a knife and fork job, since the weight of the potato chunks turns out to be too much for the flimsy crust. Regardless, it turned out to be a great meal... and just what the hangover doctor prescribed. If you're anywhere near RedRocks' four DC-area locations, you can feel comfortable taking that extra shot of Fireball at 2 a.m. knowing that this pizza awaits you in the morning.

RedRocks Neapolitan Bistro

Four DC-area locations, 202-506-1402; redrocksdc.com

Video: Most Dangerous Ways to Open a Bottle of Wine

Posted: 05 Jul 2013 02:26 PM PDT

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You've probably seen that video where some guy opens a bottle of wine with a shoe, but that's nothing compared to this super-patriotic video demonstrating a few, well, unusual ways to get that cork out.