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Slow Cooker Vegetable Curry with Chick Peas
Slow Cooker Vegetable Curry with Chickpeas is a perfect recipe for a busy week night. It is warm, comforting and packed with nutrients. The recipe will work with just about any vegetables you have on hand. I make this dish all the time and rarely make it with the same ingredients twice for that very […]
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No Bake Peanut Butter Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies
What is not to like about peanut butter and chocolate? Oh yes…the calories. Well, I can’t do too much about the calories, but I can at least adapt the recipe so that it is suitable for vegans as well as vegetarians and those with normal diets. These peanut butter chocolate oatmeal cookies will not last […]
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Crock Pot Vegetable Curry with Apples
This recipe for crock pot vegetable curry is a remake of one that recently tried our on my meat eating husband and he loves it. I love the smell in my house when a curry has been cooking all day long. The aromas are fragrant and so inviting. The recipe is vegan, vegetarian, gluten free […]
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Roasted Garden Vegetables with Fresh Herbs
When the harvest is booming, roasted garden vegetables are on my menu. Roasting brings out their natural sweetness and is so easy to do. It’s that time of the year again! So many things are ready from the garden to put on the table. Tonight it is a recipe for roasted baby potatoes, with onions […]
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Hash Brown Potatoes – Great Breakfast Dish
Looking for an easy recipe for hash browns to cook for a Sunday Brunch? These delicious hash brown potatoes are so simple to make and the fresh herbs make them taste just great. Sunday morning is a special time for us at our house. We normally go out to eat for breakfast as a treat […]
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Strawberry Shortcake with Whipped Cream Topping
This strawberry shortcake is one that my mother made each summer when the fresh strawberries started appearing in the supermarkets. It is our family’s most favorite summer time dessert and is lovingly called “Grammy’s Shortcake” by all her grandchildren. Fresh strawberries make such a great addition to desserts. They are fresh and naturally low in […]
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Sour Cream Banana Bread with Walnuts
I love recipes that make use of overripe produce that might otherwise be destined for the garbage bin. This sour cream Banana bread is a great recipe for the frugal cooks out there. It makes a great snack and easy breakfast on the go. Sour Cream Banana Bread This banana bread starts as a thick, […]
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Today’s Featured Recipe: Gluten Free Treat – Pão de Queijo
It’s featured recipe time. This one comes from my friend who used to blog at an international recipe site called Molly Mel. Regina is a fabulous cook and many of her recipes are Brazilian in nature. Most are easy to do and look just delicious. Regina submitted this gluten free treat called Pão de Queijo. […]
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Taco Recipes – Add Some Spice to Your Cinco de Mayo Celebration
These taco recipes are perfect for an easy weekday meal and the obvious choice for a Cinco de Mayo celebration. Tacos are a popular Mexican recipe. Who can resist the traditional hard taco shell filled with ground beef and your favorite toppings? It is one of my favorites and my family’s too. Here are a […]
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Potato Recipes to Highlight your Next Meal
Enhance your meal time with one of these potato recipes. I’ve always been a meat and potatoes kind of gal. No matter how I do them, I always feels as though the potatoes are the star of the dish. Potatoes can be cooked so many ways. They always make a great addition to any meal […]
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Caramelized Mushrooms – How to Make Savory Caramelized Garlic Mushrooms
Caramelized mushrooms are one of my favorite side dishes. Who doesn’t love the delicious taste of these slowly cooked mushrooms that take on a lovely caramel color and a boat load of amazing flavor. This recipe is super easy to make and a must have addition to any side dishes recipe collection. Cooking mushrooms this way […]
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The Secret To Perfect Mashed Potatoes – the ultimate comfort food
Mashed potatoes are the ultimate comfort food. We all love them, don’t we? I get asked often for cooking tips, but when people taste my mashed potatoes, they always want to know my tip for making them. So…drum roll… Here we go: How to make the perfect mashed potatoes, step by step. For me, the ultimate […]
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Rich Chocolate Brownie with Pecans – Dessert Anyone?
These rich chocolate brownie is made with cocoa and butter, and filled with chocolate chips and nuts. You can also use white chocolate chips for a change if you prefer. Brownies are one of my favorite sweet treats. I love the cakey texture in a smaller size. And the fact that they normally are […]
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Lightened Chocolate cherry Cheesecake – Decadent Recipe
A normal cheesecake recipe has a lot of calories. This lightened up version of a chocolate cherry cheesecake is just a bit lighter on your hips. Ahhhh, cheesecake recipes. This is one of those desserts that I just adore but don’t eat too often because of the calories. Just by nature, cheesecake screams “I’m going […]
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Searching the Web for Best Healthy Recipes
New Year is a time for resolutions, and one of them is often finding more healthy recipes. Still managing to stick to my resolve to eat in a more healthy way for the New Year. How about you? Are you still feeling motivated, or have the resolutions gone bye bye? Here are some more of […]
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Spinach Gouda and Onion Quiche
This spinach and onion quiche is hearty and filling and will please even the most ardent meat eaters in your life. I am a quiche girl and my husband loves them too. There is nothing quite like the combination of eggs, cheese and cream with your favorite veggies to say that you are going to […]
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Best Healthy Recipes – Nutritious Taste Sensations
Searching the Web for Best Healthy Recipes January is always a time for me to rethink my eating habits. Like so many others, I gain weight over the holidays and try to start anew on New Years day. For the past few years, I have found that although I really love great tasting (and naughty) […]
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The Best of The Gardening Cook in 2013
January is always a time of reflection for me. I look back over the previous year – see what worked and what didn’t and make plans for the new year. Often the plans have to do with my weight. Alas, I always seem to have a new year’s resolution aimed at something to do with […]
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Slimmed Down Roasted Root Vegetables
These roasted root vegetable bring out the sweetness of any vegetable choice. Use them as a side dish or as part of a salad. Printable Recipe – Slimmed Down Roasted Root Vegetables When my daughter is visiting, we often go to a local restaurant in Raleigh called Lily’s Pizza. The restaurant is located in Five […]
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Copycat Recipe: Roasted Vegetables and Chicken Salad
This hearty salad is a copy cat recipe of one of my favorite café meals: Lily’s roasted vegetable and chicken salad. Copycat Recipe: Lily’s Roasted Vegetables and Chicken Salad ( with Vegan and Vegetarian adaptations.) Ah…Lily’s Pizza. One of my daughter and my favorite restaurants in Raleigh. Lilly’s is located in Historic Five Points in […]
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Roasted Butternut Squash Recipe
This recipe for roasted butternut squash is just delicious. It combines the richness and sweetness of butternut squash with a wonderful Moroccan spice mix, for a taste sensation. My garden had a huge harvest of butternut pumpkin this year. I particularly like growing this type of squash because it is known to be a variety […]
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Vegan Peanut Butter Walnut Fudge
This vegan peanut butter fudge is made by using a few easy substitutes. It is easy to make and tastes very much like my normal peanut butter fudge recipe. We just had meatless Monday at our house and a Thai peanut stir fry was the star attraction. All of us are in the mood for […]
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Kebab Recipes – Beef Chicken Shrimp Veggies
Feed your holiday guests with one of these kebab Recipes Kebab are the perfect party food. We often think of them as barbeque fare, but if you put these combos on short bamboo skewers, they make the perfect appetizers. Why not try one of these flavor combinations for your festive holiday party? There is a […]
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This Colorful Sauteed Swiss Chard Brightens up Dinner Time
This recipe for colorful sauteed Swiss chard is brimming with the flavor of garlic, onions and Chardonnay wine for an easy and refreshing side dish. Swiss chard has a taste that is quite similar to spinach or beet greens, with stems that are slightly sweet and taste almost like bok choy. It is a wonderful addition […]
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My Favorite Recipes for Guacamole Salads
Great Guacamole Salads It is hard to beat an avocado to get your daily dose of heart healthy fats. These are some of my favorite recipes for Guacamole Salads. They will please everyone from true die hard vegetarians and vegans to the most meat loving friend or family member. Click the links below the pictures […]
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Healthy Cookie Dough Bars
Today’s featured recipe comes from Angela at Untrained Housewife. Angela says she is happy to provide seconds because these cookie dough bars are very healthy and inexpensive too at only 40c a bar! What a great breakfast on the go! Cookie Dough Bars that are actually Healthy The recipe has just five ingredients dark chocolate, […]