Category: Side Dish
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Acorn Squash Cream Soup with Bacon
We love a good squash, butternut, spaghetti, acorn, etc. Today we would like to share our Acorn Squash Cream Soup topped with yummy crunchy bacon. Mark Sisson calls Acorn squash a smart fuel, and duly so. This soup is fabulous warm or served chilled on a hot day for lunch. Either way, it is incredibly…
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Rhubarb Kompotte
One of my personal all time favorites is Rhubarb. I love the tart taste, the beautiful color and the amazing diversity of it. As kids we used to just cut a stalk, peel it with our fingers and either dip it into a little sugar or just eat it by itself. The peeling part was…
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Ring my Bell Pepper!
Mmmmm, one of my personal all time favorite vegetables is The Bell Pepper. It is not only absolutely beautiful, deliciously sweet, but also extremely good for us. Most of us are familiar with bell peppers as green, red, orange or yellow. But they also come in purple and black, and each is incredibly delicious. We are currently…
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Kohlrabi Who?
Today let’s introduce a vegetable not very widely used here in the U.S. One of my absolute favorite vegetables: The Kohlrabi. This wonderful vegetable can be prepared in so many different delicious ways. Soups, Sautee, Raw, Steamed, BBQ, or just plain part of a stir-fry. Either way it is so delicious. Please pick some up…
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Almond Bread Breakfast Muffin with Pine Nuts
We love our eggs and bacon in the morning, but on some days when you’re looking for more carbs in your day, it’s nice to dunk that wonderful egg yolk up with a tasty muffin. Almond Bread Breakfast Muffin with Pine Nuts Ingredients6 Eggs 1 tablespoon Raw unfiltered honey 120 grams Almond Meal 1 pinch…
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Conventional Chip Alternatives
Are you thinking of having a few friends over? Or perhaps you’re throwing a birthday party? Well it’s always important to serve foods that inspire, but that are also healthy and very easy to make. For those of you that haven’t seen my BIGOVEN posts yesterday on Sweet Potato Thick Chips and Kale Chips, I…
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Looking for a lunch alternative? Butternut Squash Soup
Let’s face it, salads are great and we eat them all the time. But once in a while we welcome an alternative. So with that said, let us share our Butternut Squash Soup with you. You can easily make this in advance and have it at work or as a dinner. We just made this…
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The Power of Fennel
Time to introduce you to another fantastic veggie. Fennel Fennel has been used in Europe and especially in the Mediterranean for a very long time. It is far more widespread now, but many people still don’t consume this powerful vegetable because they either don’t know how to prepare it or just aren’t aware of it. We…
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It’s Grillin’ Season: Henry’s Spicy Chimichurri
Husband, you have outdone yourself with this one. I came home from yoga last night to his latest invention: Henry’s Spicy Chimichurri, along with some grass-fed steaks on the grill and an amazing salad! Wow, I am a lucky gal 🙂 So I thought that you’d like to try some yourself. (I even put some…
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Happy Easter!
Ahhh the wonderful taste and power of eggs. There are so many things that you can do with eggs, boil them, poach them, bake with them, color them for easter, devil them…on and on it goes. We grew up with true cage-free and free-range eggs. The chickens were not confined to some little patch of…
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