Share your favorite recipes using an oven

The salad days – at long last – are over for this year.

And it’s time to think about your oven. There it has sat for the past few months, lonely and underused, because it was just too darn hot to heat up the kitchen by turning it on.

So we at Taste have decided to reunite you and your oven, with a contest of sorts. Send us a copy of that recipe that you really love but haven’t made all summer, and that you can’t wait to get into the oven. Recipes don’t have to be original (but please include the source, if known), and can be for anything from appetizer to dessert, soup to nuts.

When submitting your recipe, include your name, age, city and a sentence about why you crave this particular dish. Also include a phone number – not for publication – in case we need more details. From the submitted recipes, we’ll draw a name for the prize of a cookbook.

Email recipes to Hrinella@ reviewjournal.com (adding “Oven Reunion” in the subject line), fax them to 383-4676 or mail them to Oven Reunion, care of Heidi Knapp Rinella, Las Vegas Review-Journal, P.O. Box 70, Las Vegas, NV 89125. Recipes must be received by Oct. 19. We’ll share the recipes in the newspaper and online later this fall.

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