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Holiday Dishes Salad Bar

Harvest Butternut Quinoa Salad

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How about some beautiful color for your holiday table? Let’s serve up a quinoa salad with some colorful fruits and vegetables. This time of year, I’m always looking for ways I can use winter squash. We usually grow several kinds in our garden but I also love feasting on all […]

Holiday Dishes Plant Strong Veggies

Scalloped Potatoes

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Potatoes have always found their way to my family’s table on Thanksgiving, usually in the form of mashed potatoes or scalloped potatoes. Creamy potatoes have always been part of my comfort food, which is why I love serving them for the holidays. But they can be overloaded with fat and […]

Holiday Dishes Main Entrees

Thanksgiving Roast

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What’s on your table for Thanksgiving? The centerpiece on my holiday table isn’t the same year after year. I switch my entrees because I love variety. But it’s always about the harvest. I like to celebrate the delicious foods that I have grown in my kitchen garden or that are […]

Plant Strong Veggies

Broccoli Tots

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I don’t where I heard it–maybe it was a real estate agent–but I’ve never forgotten the words, “Presentation is everything!”  When I was studying home economics back in my college days, that was one big lesson I took away from a course in meal planning. Food can be ever so […]

Super Soups and Stews

Golden Red Lentil Soup

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My favorite soups are the kind that fill me up with one bowl. Which is why I probably love the creamy kinds best. Though anything creamy and warm just automatically becomes one of my comfort foods. That’s why I love red lentils. They are always so smooth whenever you cook […]

Salad Bar

Tropical Pineapple Salad

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One of our favorite cooking classes was when we had our Aloha Luau. I wish we could have all gone on a Caribbean cruise with waving palm trees and sandy beaches. But if you’re yearning for a taste of that right now, why don’t you join me in whipping up […]