Before my body shows a single sign of illness, it predicts the future by craving tea. Maybe that sounds unassuming, but I will always ALWAYS choose
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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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Butternut Squash Tostadas
Store bought tostadas kind of saved me this week. Months ago, I saw the episode of Triple D featuring Taco Bus and their wildly popular butternut
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Gluten Free Butternut Squash Mac and Cheese
As I planned what to make for my parents for dinner back in May, when I was wedding venue scouting back home, I tried to apply my regular meal
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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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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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Mushroom Potato Gratin
Today is one of those days that makes me wonder--what happened to the fun in blogging??? When I started Balancing Active, not so long ago, I worked on
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Potato and Celery Root Gratin
This week I went a little crazy and made two gratins--this potato and celery root gratin sprinkled with insanely tasty truffle salt, and a "side dish"
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My Healthy Pumpkin Smoothie
It's part of a complete breakfast. One might argue that it's a complete breakfast all by itself. Remember the graphic on cereal boxes (maybe it's
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Rustic Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash
You know how I was saying on Monday that I didn't have anything lined up to help those that might not get to have Thanksgiving at all? Well, things
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Easy Maple Pumpkin Oatmeal (Vegan)
What did you have for breakfast this morning? Pumpkin-something from Starbucks? If you're a pumpkin lover and this is your most favoritest food time
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BLT Salad and Crispy Shallot Croutons
BLT sandwiches are not really in the cards when you're trying to eat mostly gluten free. However, the Olson family was clueless (or shall I say, not
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