Being from the north, lentils, split peas, or beans aren’t a staple on our dinner table, not like they are in the south. When I got a bag of lentils as a present it forced me to do recipe research and inevitably lead me down the road of soups and stews along with dips and salads.
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This spicy lentil soup is perfect to make when you’re looking for something healthy and delicious to eat or have a whole bunch of veggies to use up in your fridge. This recipe makes a big batch and freezes well.
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This Scalloped Potatoes and Ham recipe is true comfort food. Warm and creamy, this recipe has a light scattering of cheddar cheese to bring everything together.
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A fresh, tangy lemon meringue pie is the perfect contrast to a heavy meal. It’s also a reminder that while a little chocolate cake is a delicious way to end a dinner, lemon meringue cleanses your palate, with just the right amount of sweet.
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The next time you’re craving a cheesy snack, skip the processed cheese and make this recipe for homemade queso dip instead.
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Like most good food memories, I have a craving to relive them when I am far away. Those memories influence the Greek Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette that I typically serve to large groups as a lighter dinner.
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Serving a Greek salad with lemon vinaigrette is a great way to highlight summer vegetables at their peak. This salad has enough going on that it can be served by itself as a lunch or as a main course for dinner.
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Most cookbooks skip right over the BLT sandwich, which in my opinion is an oversight because while a bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwich may seem simple, getting it right requires some know how.
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The simple BLT (bacon, lettuce, and tomato) sandwich shouldn’t be pooh poohed as too simple to be worthy of much cooking thought. Fresh summer produce and locally raised bacon can make the BLT an extraordinary sandwich.
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Lots of food companies use the word natural to describe their products, but what does natural really mean and can it help you eat healthier?
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Elevate a simple dish of olives by baking them for a few minutes before serving them to your guests. Baking the olives gives them a buttery texture and mellow flavor that make them a unique appetizer for parties and dinners.
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Sunrise Flour Mill’s Sourdough Bread Recipe shows how a little time and great flour can come together to create delicious flavors and complex textures in homemade sourdough bread.
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To be a better baker Darrold Glanville needed the best flour he could find, his search for better flour led he and Marty to start Sunrise Flour Mill.
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Apple Galette is a free-form apple pie with a flaky pie crust that gently encircles tart apples, brown sugar, and walnuts. This galette is less sweet and more of an everyday dessert, versus something for a fancy dinner party.
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Maple Frango is a frozen, creamy dessert, where the tanginess of greek yogurt contrasts with the sweetness of real maple syrup, and toasted pecans round out the texture and flavors.
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I get a little giddy when fresh tomatoes take over my favorite farmers market in late summer. Giddy because it takes tomatoes forever to show up and they’re gone in an instant.
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This simple frittata recipe is easy to make for a quick weekday breakfast or brunch. Once you learn the technique for making frittata you can use any combination of ingredients you like.
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Tomatoes and mozzarella come together to create a simple late summer caprese salad that is a delicious way to highlight the flavors in heirloom tomatoes.
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This Bruschetta recipe is a favorite summer appetizer when fresh tomatoes and basil are plentiful. For great bruschetta use a good baguette that compliments the flavors in the tomatoes and basil.
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The farmers market can be a challenge during the summer with all those beautiful veggies begging you to take them home. All it takes to make sure everything gets used up before it goes bad, are a few good salad dressing recipes.
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Having a homemade creamy ranch style dressing recipe at one’s fingertips helps make sure everyone eats their veggies. This ranch dressing recipe takes 10 minutes to make and keeps for a couple of weeks in the fridge.
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It is the simplest thing in the world to make vinaigrette salad dressing. This easy vinaigrette recipe is delicious and a great way to start making homemade salad dressings.
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Making homemade strawberry jelly lets us preserve summer strawberries in small half-pint jars that can be opened all winter long, whenever we need a reminder that summer will come again.
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Canning strawberries in the summer always makes me feel nostalgic for the generations of my family who canned before me and for how this summer’s strawberries will help us weather the cold winter nights ahead.
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Finding healthy snacks can be hard for a family when organic snack food starts getting loaded with chemicals, sugar, salt, colors, and flavors that you don’t want to put in your body.
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The great bread experiment is our search to find out what’s in our bread and what we can do to make great tasting, healthy bread a part of our everyday lives.
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I love lox and bagels for breakfast, the problem is it usually has more calories than I want for an everyday breakfast. This smoked salmon breakfast toast recipe uses smoked salmon, cottage cheese, and toast to create a healthier version with lots of great flavors.
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At the beginning of the year, I did what most Americans do; I made a resolution to clean up the food in my kitchen and to eat better. Over the next few months, I will be writing about the big ideas in Bittman and Pollan’s books and sharing how I’ve brought them into my kitchen.
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This super simple breakfast salad recipe is a good solution to getting a serving or two of veggies in as the day starts. This recipe uses one egg, cooked anyway, served over a bed of lettuce and reheated leftover vegetables to create a healthy breakfast.
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Our two tasty onion dip recipes work for whatever mood you’re in. The healthier version substitutes Greek yogurt for the mayo and sour cream in the more traditional recipe.
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A story of a prince, a girl, and love nudged along by the magic of a delicate rosewater cake laced with saffron accompanies some recipes for Persian Love Cake. It’s an origin story shrouded in mystery that inspires images of two lovers hunched over a tiny table in a faraway place.
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On Christmas Eve, long ago, I navigated the tunnel-like streets of Florence to my apartment on a curvy hill across the river. The risotto we cooked is normally too simple for a holiday feast, but that night no one seemed to care.
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Risotto is one of the recipes that every cook needs to know. The technique for making risotto becomes easier with practice, and the simplicity of just a few ingredients that turn into a creamy, soothing texture make this risotto recipe a perfect weeknight dish.
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In my opinion, turkey, stuffing, spuds, dressing, beans are some of the easiest things you can cook for Thanksgiving. The food is forgiving and most basic cooks can get the meal together without too much fuss. It’s good, but cooking Thanksgiving dinner bores me.
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Recently I was teaching a group of people I work with what organics, GMOs (genetically modified organisms), rBST, artificial flavors, and colors are and why we are starting to talk about them as a company. My purpose was not to scare anyone or to take a political stance; I just wanted to share facts.
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