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Vegan Marinated Roasted Red Peppers

October 3, 2019 14 Comments

When I have one foot holding onto summer and the other reaching for fall, I turn to roasted red peppers as a satisfying dish. This marinated roasted peppers dish is a perfect example of one of my favorites, as it brings in so many flavors of late summer and early fall. Best of all, it gets party dish bonus points, since it should be made at least a day ahead to allow the flavors to meld. To be honest, here in the mountains we're firmly planted in autumn and seem to be reaching for winter. So ...

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Best Traditional Greek Salad

August 8, 2019 5 Comments

This is the best time of year to make a traditional Greek salad, so if you're looking for your next salad, this is it my friends. All of the ingredients are in season at their peak flavor, and easily found at grocery stores and Farmers Markets. For bonus points, this might also be one of the easiest salads you'll make this year - and for the win, one of your most popular. Seriously. Make it for dinner, a pot luck, or a picnic. It travels well and is best made a little ahead of time. (And if ...

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Easy Southern Pimento Cheese | #ProgressiveEats

February 25, 2019 14 Comments

Traditional Southern spread of cream cheese, mayonnaise, cheddar cheese, pimento and spices. Use it as a dip, burger topping or make it a sandwich. #easydips #easyvegetariandips #vegetariandips #creamcheese #appetizers #partyappetizers #makeaheadappetizers

Southern Cooking My mom was a southern girl, my dad too. They married the day after her college graduation, and she came to the marriage knowing absolutely zero about cooking. As she often put it, she had to learn how to boil water. Over time, she became a great cook, and her favorite recipes were traditional southern dishes. Fried chicken, okra, grits, and this Pimento Cheese dip for parties. But it was a long road for her, and I don't think it was ever fun for her in the way it is for me. ...

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Weekly Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips for Omnivores // Week 5

February 23, 2019 10 Comments

Weekly vegetarian meal plan with tips for omnivores at the table, including tips for meal planning, and prep ahead tips to make dinner easy this week. #EatingClean #HealthyVegetarian #VegetarianRecipes #VegetarianMealPlan #MealPlan #WeeklyMealPlan #quiche #breakfast #brunch #cauliflower #healthyrecipe #easyrecipes #easyvegetarianrecipes

This Week, The Theme is an EASY Vegetarian Meal Plan ...  I mentioned in my last post, that I had had a skiing accident. This past week, all I wanted was comfort food, like this lentil soup. Well, I had my MRI this morning, and Carnivorous Maximus, who is a retired ER Doc, looked at the images. It appears I completely tore my ACL. So now I face the decision of either (1) surgery + rehab, which will take about 1 year; or (2) aggressive rehab, and hope pray to God PT is good enough to strengthen ...

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Weekly Vegetarian Meal Plan + Tips For Omnivores // Week 4

February 9, 2019 8 Comments

Weekly vegetarian meal plan with tips for omnivores at the table, including tips for meal planning, and prep ahead tips to make dinner easy this week. #EatingClean #HealthyVegetarian #VegetarianRecipes #VegetarianMealPlan #MealPlan #WeeklyMealPlan #lentilsrecipes #mushrooms #risotto #cauliflower #healthyrecipe

Confession: I didn't do very well last week with sticking to my weekly vegetarian meal planning. In fact, it was a huge fail. Why? Because I didn't have a real meal plan. I'd done a roundup on Parade's online magazine for Best Roasted Veggies Ever For Easy Dinners , and saw in it all kinds of great ideas for the week ahead. So I figured my job was done. Wrong. So this week, I'm sharing 4 common mistakes people make in meal planning. Of course there are many more than 4, but these are the ...

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Easy Sweet Potato Latkes

November 14, 2018 29 Comments

Appetizer or Entree: Sweet potato latkes with jalapeño, scallions and Ancho chili powder, topped with lime sour cream and chives.

This post is sponsored by BabbleBoxx.com on behalf of Anolon. There are also affiliate links which help support the cost of running this blog. Follow these step-by-step instructions to make Sweet Potato Latkes.  Latkes are synonymous with Hanukkah, but I say this year - you should make Sweet Potato Latkes.  Hanukkah often coincides with Christmas, but this year it begins at sundown December 2 and ends at sundown December 10. For those of you who aren't completely clued in, ...

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And the Winner is….Spicy Skillet Eggs (Mexican-ish Shakshuka) !

June 28, 2018 Leave a Comment

Shakshouka Eggs (poached eggs in a spicy tomato sauce)

A Mexican-ish twist on Shakshuka! Last week I posted a poll on Facebook, asking followers to choose between two dishes from the book that they would most like the recipe for. The choices were Spicy Skillet Eggs (a Mexican-ish twist on Shaksuka, a popular north African and Middle-Eastern breakfast) or a very easy Asparagus Risotto made in the Instant Pot. I promised to share the recipe for the winner on my blog, and here it is! The winner was a bit of a landslide, at least partly - IMHO ...

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Grilled Vegetable Skewers over Zoodles | #ProgressiveEats

June 25, 2018 15 Comments

Skewers of potatoes, peppers, onions, zucchini, tomatoes, and halloumi over garlicky zoodles.

  I'm trying hard to go low-ish carb, swapping cauliflower rice for, well, regular rice, and spiralized zucchini for pasta. These grilled vegetable skewers of halloumi, peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, potatoes and onions over zoodles is a perfect example of my dinner. It's not Whole30, but I think of it as Whole30-Lite. Or maybe Whole29. And this dish was uber-easy, one of my new meal requirements. It looks a lot more complicated than it is. Your first question might be - what the heck ...

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Cajun Peppers + Cauliflower ‘Grits’

May 18, 2018 2 Comments

Cajun-spiced peppers and beans over cheesy cauliflower grits.

This is a spin on shrimp and grits, a Cajun favorite, using cajun-spiced baby bell peppers and black beans piled on top of cheesy cauliflower grits. Cauliflower rice is my new thing. And since I'm trying to be grain-free for a month (1 week down, 3 to go!), it's been a great substitute in some favorite dishes. This is my latest tinkering with cauliflower rice - and it rocks, you guys! Cauliflower grits! Who knew??!! Although this dish is an easy weeknight dinner - it comes together in ...

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Romanesco Pasta with Curry Cauliflower Sauce

January 1, 2018 5 Comments

Romanesco sautéed with apples, scallions, and garlic, and tossed with pasta and a curry cauliflower sauce.

  Have you tried romanesco yet? You've probably seen it. It looks like broccoli and cauliflower hooked up and had a baby.  It looks like something whimsical you'd see growing from the ground in the Lord of the Rings series. With a hobbit sitting underneath it.  I call it "broccoli light", because that's what it tastes like, but it really is a cross between broccoli and cauliflower. And with parentage like that, it's unsurprisingly nutritious. Top 5 Nutritional Benefits of ...

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Potato Leek Soup with Hatch Chiles

October 3, 2017 14 Comments

Comforting potato leek soup. Just like the one from your childhood.

It's been awhile since I've posted anything here for you. It's hard to believe how quickly the summer slipped by. I could blame it on the fact that we spent the summer painfully searching, finding, buying, and moving into a new home. And let's not forget that whole unpacking-getting settled thing, which may continue until my grandchildren graduate from college (the youngest are currently slaving over multiplication tables). I could blame my absence on the fact that until recently, much of my ...

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Idaho® Potato Nacho Stacks

January 28, 2017 16 Comments

Bites of potato stacks, nacho style with cheese, black beans, salsa, avocado and a dollop of sour cream.

This post is sponsored by the Idaho® Potato Commission in conjunction with a social media campaign through Sunday Supper LLC. All opinions are my own. I’m a just-in-time girl. I can plan. Really, I can. But, and this is what I blame it on, I’m an optimist. I always think I have more time available to get something done than I actually do. As a result, my husband and I live in a kind of parallel reality, since he’s exactly the opposite. It makes for some interesting ‘discussions’ as you ...

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