Each week we round up our most yummy posts and recipes from our friends at the Kitchn.

This week, the kitchn brings us a heaping bowl of tender meatballs in tomato sauce… perfect for a cold day.

Also in the kitchn, a cookbook devoted to grits, no-stir polenta, chewy chocolate (low-fat) cookies, and yummy butternut squash pasties.

• Glorious Grits by Susan McEwen McIntosh: A whole cookbook, including more than 100 recipes in all, simply devoted to the wonderfulness of grits.

• Marcella Hazan’s No-Stir Polenta: That’s right, it can be done without stiring, “Polenta is like risotto, but…”

• The Best Chocolate Chewy Cookies Ever (& Low-Fat Too):  These cookies look to die for, plus there low-fat, gotta try.

• Recipe: Butternut Squash, Sage, and Parmesan Pasties:  These Pasties are a vegetarian’s dream snack to munch on.

• With all the taxes going on, expect more taxes to be proposed on meat and fast foods.  — The Epi-Log

• Do you know, how to politely take photographs of food in a restaurant? — Serious Eats

• Sandwich of the week, Poached Egg and Prosciutto Muffinwich. — YumSugar

• The proper tips on how to store your coffee. — Slashfood

• Spice paste, what’s it good for? — Cookthink

• Need a cocktail, maybe a summer cocktail, go red and yellow! — Hostess with the Mostess

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