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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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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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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 was bored bored bored of my veggie routine so I reached out to my most trusted resource: my Mom. She suggested pine nuts, which I just happened to have in my pantry. A simple recipe took shape from there. I let sliced onions saute in a pan til they were nice and sweet. Yeah,…
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Thanks to some hard partying at a bachelorette party on Saturday night, I was unable to rally for Cinco de Mayo celebrations on Sunday. My Cinco party was therefore significantly downsized. There were no margaritas, maracas, or sombreros. But there were tacos and we all know that’s the most important part. I’m sure you read…
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Many of the pasta dishes I find are full on one-dish meals featuring lots of veggies, meat, and cheese. I was looking for a new pasta recipe that still had enough ingredients to make it feel special but that was a true side dish rather than the center of the meal. Most people would say…
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Great salad. That’s what I’ve got to say about this recipe. And with the purple of the radicchio and bright green of the avocado, it’s a good lookin dish as well. I’d never had red quinoa before. Guess what. It’s a lot like regular quinoa, just a little nuttier. And I’m a little nuttier than…
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Peaches to Apples 