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This is a delicious and healthier spin on the traditional dried soup-mix spinach dip, using fresh vegetables like carrots, onions and garlic instead of dried vegetables from a soup mix — and avoiding chemical additives and an overabundance of salt. Just a little bit more trouble than ripping open a soup packet, the taste is [...]
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This is a fairly easy flat bread that you can flavor with any herb. I used basil because I have so much of it in my garden, but you could easily substitute oregano, parsley or dill. I used fresh, but dried probably works well too. It’s a delicious, soft, slightly chewy bread with just a [...]
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Home-made hummus is simple and easy to make, and the taste is fresh and smooth. This recipe, using canned garbanzo beans (chickpeas) is the classic variation, but the garlic and lemon with just a bit of cumin combine into a extraordinary taste, perfect for dipping. It makes a great appetizer, served with flat bread and/or [...]
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This is a big, beautiful, simple but impressive salad that is a very tasty and unique combination of textures, flavors and colors. The combination of quinoa, black beans, corn, tomatoes, lettuce and cilantro presents wonderful contrasting colors and textures, best served in a clear glass bowl so that you can appreciate the beauty of the [...]
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This simple salad is easy to make, but the taste is a complex and delicious combination of textures and tastes. It’s especially flavorful in the summer, using classic homegrown vegetables such as cucumbers and tomatoes. With feta cheese and chickpeas (garbanzo beans), it is a meal in itself. At Running with Tweezers, where I found [...]
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This is a slightly unconventional way to serve the traditional ingredients of a caprese salad,with the fresh tomatoes, mozzarella and basil all tossed chopped into bite-sized chunks and tossed together with olive oil, and a bit of salt and pepper.
There’s something extremely satisfying about growing your own food, and this salad is extra special because [...]
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D’Andrea’s was a small Italian deli in a storefront tucked into one end of an aging ’50s era strip mall in Berwyn, IL (Cermak Plaza, made famous in the movie Wayne’s World) that served the most delicious home-style Italian foods — homemade sausage, lasagna, sub sandwiches, mostacolli, olive salads, meatballs, pepper salads and more, all [...]
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This cool and simple creamy dill and cucumber salad is a standard Greek side dish, and it goes well with grilled meats of all types.
Cucumbers - 2
Sour Cream - 1 cup (8 oz.)
Lemon Juice - 2 tsps.
Celery Salt - 1/4 tsp.
Salt - 1 tsp.
Pepper - 1/4 tsp.
Sugar - 1 1/2 tsp.
Garlic Powder - 1/4 tsp.
Onion [...]
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This salad is so simple, and it contains many of my favorites from the garden. You could easily add to it (basil comes to mind) but the simplicity is the beauty of it, so I wouldn’t add too much more to it. Served with an Italian dressing such as Asiago Cheese Salad Dressing, Tomatoes and [...]
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I’ll start by saying that I am not usually a person who seeks out savory and sweet combinations. I’ll tolerate dried cranberries in a lettuce salad and am trying to be more open-minded about fruit and vegetable combinations.
So when I was shopping at Trader Joe’s last week, I had no intention of buying a mango [...]
