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Pesto Pea Pasta Salad
As I was planting my basil garden this past weekend, dreaming of all the summer dishes it would soon be a part of, I remembered that I still had pesto in the freezer from last year’s basil crop. D’oh!...
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Two summer salads
I think I’m probably in the minority when I admit that salads make me happy. But please don’t get me wrong — I’m not playing high-and-mighty on the food front, boasting a conveniently timely...
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Stuffed eight ball zucchini
What does it mean today to “eat healthy”? My adult lifetime has seen the many comings and goings of the Diets of Exclusion: No fat. No carbs. No sugar (but replaced with artificial sweeteners). No...
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Spinach, egg & harissa chopped salad
Green is the new black. At least in the food world. Kale, Swiss chard, spinach, arugula. They’re everywhere, in just about every recipe. This is a good thing. And it’s even better since I learned the...
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Pesto zucchini brown rice risotto
As summer reaches the middle mark — the height of the growing season — the gardening to-do list grows long. The tomatoes need constant staking and pruning (not so much picking yet, but we’re getting...
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Brown butter scones
A couple of years ago, I gave up soft drinks. (Diet, too — the whole shebang.) My vice was Mt. Dew. Oh, lovely, Mt. Dew, you got me through college, through grad school, and far too many years of...
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Asian brown rice + veggie salad
August is perhaps the best month to be a cook in the Midwest. Home gardens are busting out with fresh produce, while farmers’ markets fill in the gaps with their lovely varieties of heirloom produce,...
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Fried Egg Pupusas
I bought a tortilla press earlier this summer on impulse. It’s one of those single-purpose tools that has the very real potential to be used once, and then left, forgotten, in the back of the cabinet....
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Autumn Vegetable Pasta
Why oh why oh why is pasta the perfect autumn comfort food? Why do I crave pasta above every other carb (even bread — gasp)? I can eat plain pasta right out of the bowl — absolutely plain, no butter,...
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Red lentil pasta sauce
This has been a lentil kind of winter so far. I’m completely in love with the little bright red lentil — it goes in everything: pasta salads, green salads, soups (and even raw as sprouts — they’re...
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