Barley Pilaf with Fall Vegetables & Chicken
Well, you guys, we did it. We took our babies camping. And while I’m busy preparing an entire post, complete with pictures and snake stories (intrigue!), about our experience, I thought I’d share one...
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Well, apparently this is the year for making giant salads that I eat all week for lunch. And this sweet potato salad falls right in line. I love recipes like these – that you can make on a Monday, that...
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Easy Shelled Pea Pasta with lemon and sage
I’ve talked before on this blog about past issues with bugs and critters and snakes, but I’ve never really described the panic that sets in for me when I see a bug. It’s really kind of a phobia: I know...
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On the Cooking Club: Grilled Peach Salsa
Grilled peach salsa. Trust me when I tell you that this recipe is your new summer bestie. I made this salsa for my first (of a monthly) contribution to the Cooking Club‘s new section called The...
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Grilled Corn Salad with Cilantro-Honey-Lime Vinaigrette
Let it be known that I would be perfectly content to eat sweet corn, rolled in butter and sprinkled with salt, for the rest of all time. It’s the taste of late summer, of my childhood. And I gorge on...
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Thanksgiving Thursdays #5: Sweet & Savory Pumpkin Cream Cheese Dip
The story of this dip is that I went to Williams Sonoma last month to buy a gift (we never go there for ourselves, amIright?) I had Owen with me, and as soon as walked in the store, we headed for the...
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Mexican Elotes Salad with Amaize Sweet Corn
If you know me at all, you know that the way to my heart is through a good pun. There is a tiny portion of my brain that virtually never turns off, which constantly filters the words I’m hearing for...
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Deconstructed Banh Mi Salad with Grilled Vietnamese Chicken
What’s worse than being sick? Being sick in the summer. You guys, my kids and I have had it all the last few weeks. We’re like an ice cream truck of germs…we walk down the street, and every kid that...
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Roasted Tomatillo & Sweet Corn Black Bean Soup
Okay, so remember last week when I was all like “grill everything! summer forever!” and promised not to go all pumpkin on you yet? Well. I caved. And made you soup. But you have to understand what...
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Simple Asian Cabbage Slaw
There are times when I plot and plan what meals I want to make – some extravagant Pinterest idea, or a recipe that’s been rattling around in my brain for a year. I finally commit and make the meal; we...
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