By Gretchen McKay, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Many family dinners are planned ahead of time after pulling a delicious-sounding recipe out of a cookbook and making a detailed grocery list. But there are plenty of nights when this home cook just wings it based on what’s lurking in her freezer, has ripened on the counter or — more often than I’d like to admit — is about to spoil in the refrigerator crisper.

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