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Catch-Up Post #4: Orzo Super Salad
Lisa saw this recipe on 101 Cookbooks and immediately added it to her must-have list. The cool salad was a tasty treat during our mini-heatwave a few weeks ago. For the sprouts, we found a pack that included many varieties we hadn’t previously tried — they added crunch and texture to this healthy dish. Orzo […]
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Catch-Up Post #3: Portobello Salad with Spicy Mustard Dressing, and an award
Here’s a recipe from Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook that’s been sitting in the “need to post” pile for a while… we broke out the grill for this one a few months ago. We love the taste and texture of grilled portobellos, and when placed over a bed of greens and garbanzos with a slightly spicy, […]
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Catch-Up Post #2: Tilapia with Shiitake Mushrooms
A month or so ago, we made this easy fish dish, adapted from a recipe in Fitness Food: The Essential Guide to Eating Well and Performing Better. The original used fish steaks (snapper, halibut, swordfish…) but we had a few tilapia fillets on hand and it sounded like a good match to me! We paired […]
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Quick-Seared Poblano Beef Tips
Meat and potatoes, Rick Bayless-style. This easy recipe from Mexican Everyday features deliciously tender… tenderloin… dished up with potatoes and full-flavored, slightly spicy poblano peppers. We don’t cook tons of red meat and aren’t fans of huge slabs of beef, so this was a nice treat. The potatoes took a lot longer than suggested in […]
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Catch-Up Post #1: CSA Soup & Asparagus Stir-Fry
[donotprint] Not sure if it was a major ice-cream headache, weekend trips, or other commitments, but somehow I’ve ended up with a backlog of a dozen or so posts to catch up on. Rather than try to recreate the magical conversations we had when enjoying these meals, I’m going to post a quick summary of […]