The best things in life are...
oh so simple.
It's true, I love an afternoon in the kitchen, spending hours chopping veggies for a big pot of chili
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Side Dishes
Carrot Salad with Spiced Turmeric Vinaigrette
Do these carrot salad pictures look spooky to you? Because it's the perfect crunchy, healthy salad for Halloween and fall time! When I first threw
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Garlic Mushroom Rosé Risotto
Sometimes I do silly things like swear off wine for a month. Not necessarily a bad resolution in itself. Wine consumption in the soon-to-be Schatteman
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Antipasto Orzo Salad with Garlic Chickpeas
To be totally honest, I'm not sure I can give you an accurate definition of antipasto. I don't have the slightest trace of Italian in my blood, which
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Creamy Fresh Tomato Dressing (No Egg/Dairy)
My least favorite grocery store is about six blocks from my condo. In moments of forgotten ingredients or an excuse for a productive errand, I can
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Greek Tomato and Cauliflower Bake (Gratin)
This one gets filed under the "things that sound pretty weird but are actually delectable" category. In case you don't think cauliflower, tomatoes,
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Kohlrabi Gratin with Blue Cheese
Before I made this gratin, I perused the web for other kohlrabi gratin recipes and ideas for making it less blah to eat. See, I made a mini
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Perfect 4-Ingredient Spicy Black Beans
I felt like I was on Chopped when I put this "recipe" for spicy black beans together. Goat cheese stuffed baked chiles rellenos had just gone in the
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Chickpea and Olive Tabbouleh
I like to bend the rules when it comes to Mediterranean cooking. First with my "not hummus" garlic garbanzo bean purée, now with this highly flexible
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Butternut Squash Gratin (and an announcement)
Of course, just as the produce department is beginning to burst with signs of spring--ramps! non-droopy cilantro! locally-grown greens!--I'm making a
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Turnip and Leek Blue Cheese Gratin
I'm not sure how it came to this, but I discovered last week that this turnip and leek blue cheese gratin, in all its weird-looking blue cheese glory,
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Summer Quinoa Tabbouleh with Creamy Herb Vinaigrette
This quinoa tabbouleh recipe almost escaped me. Or should I say almost escaped you? Or maybe almost escaped the blog? Flipping through my images in
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