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I’m on a quinoa kick; I like the unusual, nutty flavor and springy texture. I found this lovely recipe (originally from the Moosewood Restaurant Cooks at Home ) at Morsels & Musings. I followed it fairly closely, and the result was delicious. It’s a simple combination of flavors, easy to prepare, and yes, it’s healthy [...]
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This is a delicious fresh-tasting soup that uses vegetables you may still have growing in your garden. Even if you don’t, buy some and make this soup anyway! Home-grown or not, the fresh vegetables give this soup a rich taste.
I still have lots of cherry tomatoes and I was happy to dump 2 cups of [...]
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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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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 make this chili at least once a year - usually in the fall - and invite my close friends over to share, along with tortilla chips, salsa and guacamole. This tradition, and the recipe, began many, many years ago, when I went on a weekend field trip with a small group of fellow students [...]
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I started making my own salsa because I love cilantro and most jarred salsas don’t include it, and they usually have too much sugar and salt. This recipe is pretty simple and can be prepared in about ten minutes.
Tomatoes - 1 28-oz can of whole tomatoes (regular, not in pureed sauce)
Onion - 1 small to [...]
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This is a delicious, light but robust-tasting soup that is quick to prepare and cook. This recipe originally comes from a restaurant where I worked while going to college. No, it was not a dark Italian place, but a private restaurant, Room 500, at Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke’s Hospital in Chicago, which was filled with hundreds [...]
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I used to top pasta with jarred commercial sauce because it was so easy, but then I started making my own sauce from canned tomatoes because it was almost as easy and tastes so much better and fresher than commercial jarred sauces. Even the “healthy” jarred sauces tend to use a lot of sugar, which [...]
