Warm Sausage, Potato and Roasted Vegetable Salad

I’ve had a request for more vegetarian recipes around here, but sorry, this is not one.  I will get to those, I promise…just not now.  This was a salad recipe I spied a few weeks ago that looked like a heaty, warm winter salad.  It was, and the mustardy vinaigrette was great with the potatoes [...]

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Chicken Curry with Gentle Spices

Posted by popular demand, here is a curry recipe some folks have seen on my camera and wanted me to post.  I didn’t post it when I made it because although it was tasty, the recipe wasn’t quite what I was expecting.  The main issue comes from the fact that you puree raw vegetables- like [...]

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Sausage and Lentil Soup

You probably thought I dropped off the face of the Earth.  That’s almost true, and I sure haven’t done any cooking in the past week.  However, I will leave you with a favorite recipe perfect for this time of year.  I love lentils and soup, and especially lentil soup.  This one gets a lot of [...]

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Roasted Butternut Squash and Apple Salad

Fall is here in full force- there isn’t a chill in the air, it’s more like a blast of cold air today.  I made this salad last week when it was much
warmer than today, but there was still a slight chill, which was enough to get me in the mood for Fall produce.  It’s a [...]

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Turkey Shawarma

So, first it was chicken shawarma, and now it’s turkey shawarma.  But whatever the shawarma you pick, it’s all tasty.  This dish is
surprisingly quick to make- if you ignore the recommended 4-8 hour sitting time for the turkey, which I did when we decided to grill out last Friday.  I don’t think we lost anything [...]

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Quick Pasta Fagiole

A weekend of over-indulging on food at the Greek festival, bachelorette party fare and an awesome brunch made me
want to get my act together on Sunday night for dinner.  I was craving something filling and with pasta, so I needed to get some veggies in there too.  I remembered seeing some recipes for pasta fagiole [...]

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Warm Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese and Smoked Paprika

This is one of those drop everything and go make this now recipes.  It was that good.  In fact, so good I bumped it up
in my queue of posts.
I made this recipe two nights ago thinking it would pretty tasty because I love lentils and smoked paprika, and I was lured in by the picture [...]

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Chipotle Chicken Quesadillas

I’m sure everyone has that go-to meal that when you have no idea what to make for dinner, you can always fall
back on this dish.  For some people that means a meal that can be made from ingredients you always have on hand (for me the only thing I could make at any given time [...]

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Sicilian Tuna Steaks

I’ve got a few recipes backed up that I need to post, and the good news is that many of them are on the quick side.
First off is tuna steaks and a great money-saving discovery!  Actually, this is Greg’s discovery of frozen tuna steaks at Trader Joe’s that are very reasonably priced.  He bought a [...]

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Chana Masala with Mushrooms

When I saw this Chana Masala with Mushrooms from Herbavoracious, the mushrooms started calling out to me and I imagined it
would have a really rich, spiced taste with meaty mushrooms.  Luckily, my guess was right on and this dish makes the short list of Indian recipes you can make at home that taste like what [...]

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