It's snowing right now...again! Which makes it a little more tolerable that, as I write this, the weekend is coming to an end. It was a weekend filled
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Main Dish
Curried Lentil Salad
This curried lentil salad might be the easiest dinner recipe I've published to date. As my sister so candidly pointed out on FaceTime recently, most
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Step-by-Step Fluffy Sweet Potato Rolls
Big, juicy hamburgers veggie burgers and buns--they go together like peanut butter and jelly, right? So how rude of me to give you a veggie burger
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Swiss Chard Gratin and Roasted Red Pepper Sauce
Sometimes when life gives you lemons, making lemonade isn't really in the cards.
I had a great weekend. A relaxing night at home with this chard
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Tex-Mex BBQ Black Bean Veggie Burgers
I won at dinner this week. First, there was eggplant stew with not one, not two, but three homemade sauces (see details below). Then there were the
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Essential Home Cookware and Spiced Eggplant Lentil Stew
Late last summer, as my sister was registering for her wedding, she called me to see what cookware she should add to her registry. I responded with a
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Golden Root Vegetable Gratin
My alternate name for this recipe is "bright and sunny root veg gratin". Really, how can you not cheer up and forget about the below zero wind chill
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Mediterranean Zucchini Gratin
I feel a little relieved that the scramble for Valentine's Day planning is over. What's that? You still want to plan something but have no idea where
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Winter Walnut Pesto Pasta and a Valentine’s Dinner at Home Menu
Valentine’s Day at home is not a copout. Nights out can certainly be special. I have to cover my bases, after all, because I’ve been extended an
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Roasted Cauliflower and Smoked Cheddar Gratin
A couple bites into this gratin on Friday night, Steve takes my hand, brings it a little closer to him, and declares matter-of-factly, "You're
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Arugula Orange Salad with Toasted Sesame Vinaigrette
Desperate times call for desperate measures, and grocery shopping for a fresh salad recipe and photo shoot four hours before THE east coast blizzard
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Artichoke, Celery Root, and Potato Gratin
Cooking for one or two? I know, I know, it can get so boring to eat the same thing or the same type of thing when you live alone. Cooking for two
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