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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Side Dishes
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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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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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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Meatless Mexican Chili and Cheddar Grits Super Bowls
It's as bad as it sounds. And by bad, I mean oh so good. Seven layers of southern and Tex-Mex comfort food rolled into a single, build-your-own game
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Easy Cabbage Gratin and a New Cook-Through “Challenge”
Time to lighten things up a bit. As our dinner hosts this weekend would tell you, I could go on for hours about my dietary and life philosophy in
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Meatless Loaded Sweet Potato Risotto (2.0)
Writer's paralysis has hit. It's not writer's block, because I have a steady stream of topics I want to talk about, but none of them seem just right.
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