Try the roasted butternut squash soup with spicy pumpkin seeds, and the creamy polenta with mascarpone, walnuts and gorgonzola.

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But the dessert's basic layering of mascarpone and ladyfingers begs for improvisation.

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The National Cottonseed Products Association (NCPA) offers recipes such as "Chocolate Banana Bread Pudding with Mascarpone Caramel Cream and Banana Beignets" to anyone who might be interested.

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The next time, I brought home Brooks and Rainier cherries, decided to get them drunk and take them to a party with some ladyfingers and mascarpone cheese.

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Grapefruit curd with mascarpone and a crumble of pistachio and green tea demonstrated the more elegant notes of bitterness, and sunchoke cream with chestnut, black-trumpet mushrooms, and coffee expounded on the sweet-savory spectrum of nuttiness.

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