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How to Make Pesto – Part 1 – Basil Pesto
This is gonna be one of the simplest things you’ve never made. At least that’s what I thought when I made it for the first time about a month ago. I don’t know why I’d waited this long. I was missing...
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Creamy Cucumber and Tomato Salad
Creamy dreamy salad. Perfect for these last days of summer. The tomato is ripe and sweet, the cucumber crisp and cool, the dressing bright and herb-filled. It’s one of my favorite ways to eat salad. A...
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Grape Toasts
One of my all time favorite snacks is crackers and cheese with grapes. When I used to teach aerobics many years ago, I’d come home starving, and would eat like it had been a really long time since I’d...
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How to Create the Perfect Pasta Dish
Joy to the… pasta. I’m practicing Christmas songs for a concert in December. Mostly I have a really high screechy “eeee” sound in my head. Along with a medley of the other seven or eight songs that...
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Eight Years
Once upon a time, there was a Canadian girl, and an American boy. They met at a wedding (her cousin, his friend) and shortly thereafter fell in love. A year and a half later, it was a week before...
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End of the Week Pasta
It’s nearing the end of the week. And the cupboards are a little bare, the pantry is kinda empty, the produce drawers are filled with distant memories (and a few stray veggies). Sound familiar? Maybe...
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Vegetarian Soft Tacos
Even though I’m tired of the heat we’re still experiencing, I’m hanging on as long as I can to the summer veggies. Specifically summer squash. I’m fine that the apples are here. I’m glad that we’ve...
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How to Deseed Pomegranates
Beautiful pomegranates are in season right now. Ruby red jewels inside tough skin. We could go deep and get philosophical about how that’s how so many people are… Tough on the outside, but when you...
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Chicken Pot Pie
Today is one of those fall days where it actually feels like fall. I’m wearing jeans and a sweater and am totally comfortable. I’m also going through the photos that I took of the Chicken Pot Pie that...
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Spicy Twice Baked Sweet Potatoes
I’m thinking about the upcoming holidays. I’m making lists of gifts to buy for others, things I’d love to have (not that I need anything else), and recipes to make while we’re with family. A few weeks...
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How to Make Pesto – Part 2 – Kale Pesto
Kale is one of my favorite greens. No offense to spinach, chard, and collards. I just extra love kale. I love that it’s sturdy enough to be turned into chips, but that it’s softness can be brought out...
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Apple Rosemary Flatbread
I love when it’s apple season. I think I say that every season about something. I love the changing of the seasons and the promise of something new that comes with it. I especially love fall. There...
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Holiday Dinner Party Menu Ideas
It’s getting to be the holiday season. I love this time of year! I love family gatherings with people I don’t see often enough, dinners with friends who are so dear to us (especially being so far from...
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Sautéed Persimmons with Bacon
Sometimes inspiration just hits. Something pops into my brain, like, “I wonder if spaghetti would taste good served in a roasted butternut squash” (we will find out at dinner tonight), or “persimmons...
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How to Make Pesto – Part 3 – Mint Pesto
It’s time for another pesto installment. I still can’t believe that I hadn’t made pesto before I tried my hand at Basil Pesto, the more traditional pesto. Then came the Kale Pesto, a bright, green...
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Cannellini and Beet Green Soup with Feta
Let me tell you how my day was. It was fine. Nothing out of the ordinary happened. Nobody made me take a late lunch break. No one threw out the food I’d brought for lunch. I just waited too long to...
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Spring Rolls with Spicy Honey Mustard Dipping Sauce
Today, I was inspired to try something new. Something I’ve never attempted before. Spring Rolls. What a fun idea! I felt like I was playing as I cut the avocado and veggies into matchsticks. And then...
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Cabbage Rolls with Bulgur Wheat and Italian Sausage
I had my menu all planned for this week, but I caught a cold and the fridge is full of leftovers from two Christmas events from this past weekend, plus there’s an enormous cabbage that’s taking up the...
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A Menu for Your Holiday Brunch
It’s always been a tradition with my immediate family to eat brunch after we’ve opened our gifts on Christmas morning. When we were younger, the brunch took place at a much earlier hour. Now that...
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Lentils on Crispy Sweet Potatoes
I wonder if you may have some sweet potatoes left over from Thanksgiving. Hiding in the dark pantry, waiting to be used. Purchased with the best of intentions… Sound familiar? I was out of town for...
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