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I love lemon cream pasta. Carbonara is pretty good, too. Basically pasta with cream sauce is decadent comfort food. Have I told you anything you didn’t already know? If you’re like me and you love creamy pasta, read on. I followed this recipe and couldn’t believe how amazing it tasted. You don’t feel like you’re sacrificing…
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Avocado goes great with citrus and anyone who’s eaten at a sushi restaurant knows that avocado and edamame work well together. Just a hunch, but that means grapefruit and edamame could work together with avocado doing the back end work of bringing them together. I just told you the three main ingredients for this salad.…
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Years ago my family took our boat out for a weekend camping trip. On the last morning I was put in charge of making breakfast out of whatever we had leftover. I ended up making breakfast burritos out of shrimp we caught straight off the side of the boat and some cajun seasoning we had…
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I had seen some sort of pasta made with brie on Pinterest but never got around to trying it. I’ll put cheese in anything, especially pasta, but brie seemed like the one cheese that wouldn’t work. I kept putting it off until I found myself leaving work late and needing something I could whip up…
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You and me go together like peas and carrots…except I don’t like peas and carrots. But once I discovered how great Greek yogurt and mayonnaise could be as a dressing, I wanted to see if it could save this dish. Once of my biggest issues with peas and carrots is that I don’t really like…
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As a child, I watched in horror as people would pile grocery store potato salad on their plates at grill outs. It looked like a gross mess and even made a weird “squirslop” sound as it plunked onto the plastic dinnerware. In recent years, however, I’ve become a fan of potato salad when it’s homemade…
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I recently found a recipe for a veggie sauté that was served as part of a breakfast dish underneath egg in a hole. However, if you take away the egg and toast component, this is just as well suited for a veggie side dish at suppertime. The first step is to sauté shallots and asparagus…
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I usually keep a package of chicken sausage in my fridge for those nights when I get home late but still want a home cooked meal. They stay fresh for a while and come in all sorts of fun flavors like jalapeno, the variety residing in my fridge this week. If you’ve ever seen an…
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Creamy = unhealthy. You don’t read this blog to get beaten over the head with the obvious. But wait – not so fast! This pasta sauce is creamy without any cream thanks to healthy almond milk. I followed this recipe and the sauce came out silky and delicious. The almond milk and leeks make it…
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I am a major supporter of sandwiches. Like Secretary of their fan club type of supporter. So when I found out last week was National Sandwich Week, a celebration was non-negotiable. But what type of sandwich should I make? Sure there was plenty of inspiration on the Pinterest board I devoted entirely to sandwiches, but…
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Peaches to Apples 