Roasted Beet and Orange Dip with Walnuts

September 1, 2009
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This recipe is a copycat version of the beet and orange dip at our local Wegmans grocery store. Wegmans don’t add walnuts to their dip. But I like the nutty, creamy muhammara-like flavor that the walnuts add to this dip. Its sweet, tart and great for dipping pita bread or in a vegetable crudite platter. I love [...]

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Crispy Polenta with Morel Mushrooms and Broccoli

August 30, 2009
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This is a great meal for a week night. Its filling, tasty, and doesnt take too long to make. I used store bought polenta to speed things up. If you havent tried morel mushrooms, you absolutely must! They are earthy, incredibly flavorful and have a great texture. Fresh morels are only in season very briefly [...]

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Watermelon Juice for the Purist

August 18, 2009
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Life doesn’t get simpler than this. Watermelon juice with nothing in it except….watermelon! I just cut up a seedless watermelon, removed the rind, put the fruit in a blender and then strained the juice out. Its even easier if you have a juicer; you don’t have to do the straining separately.
I decided not to add [...]

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Chocolate-Banana Yin-Yang Cupcakes

August 16, 2009
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When life gives you bananas, you wish they didn’t all ripen at the same time. But because your wish will never come true, you should banana cupcakes! Or rather, half banana, half chocolate cupcakes. These are banana-chocolate, yellow-brown, yin-yang cupcakes. This recipe was born out of a need to use up overly ripe bananas and [...]

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Chipotle-Lime Grilled Squash with Kalyn’s Creamy Tomatillo Sauce

August 12, 2009
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Call me crazy..but I grilled outdoors on a blazing hot, 98 degree day. I could have made my no-cook double layer summer vegetable sandwich instead, stayed indoors and stayed nice and cool. But I was really, really in the mood for some grilled summer squash/zucchini skewers with chipotle and lime.
When the wonderful Kalyn of Kalyn’s [...]

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Double Layer Summer Vegetable Sandwich with Hummus and Pesto

August 5, 2009
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 This is an easy sandwich for a sweltering hot day, when you don’t feel like turning on your stove. With all the raw summer vegetables and brown bread, this sandwich is healthy too. Its a double layered sandwich, so its quite filling. I love the combination of creamy hummus and the basil pesto in this sandwich.

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Easy Peach Tart

July 31, 2009
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This is a ridiculously easy tart to make. Just chop up some peaches, toss in sugar and spices, arrange the peaches on puff pastry and bake off. That’s it!
Ree from the Pioneer Woman blog made a puff pastry apple tart. The minute I saw that recipe, I bookmarked it. But I used peaches instead of [...]

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How to Pit a Peach

July 31, 2009
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 Here is an easy way to neatly pit a fresh peach.
 
First things first, wash and dry the peach.

 Using a paring knife, cut the peach vertically, going all the way around. Then, gently pull the peach apart so that you have two sections, one with the pit and one without.

 To remove the pit, just slip the [...]

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