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Breakfast / Brunch
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Pumpkin Gingerbread Muffins
These delicious pumpkin gingerbread muffins are made with dates, honey, and loads of spices . . . A Healthier Pumpkin Muffin Option Sometimes, on a very cold morning in fall, nothing is more comforting than warm gingerbread. But typical gingerbread is essentially cake. So I wanted to see if I could make a gingerbread that…
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Buttermilk Cornbread Pancakes
This recipe makes a fluffy, delicately crispy, and comforting cornbread pancake. My ideal pre-Thanksgiving pancake (but we also eat them in summer with fresh peaches, whipped ricotta, and maple syrup!)
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Orange Fennel Chicken Breakfast Sausages
These orange fennel chicken breakfast sausages are sweetened with chopped dates and caramelized fennel and flavored with a hint of orange and nutmeg.
Dinner
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Easy Baked Fish with Tomatoes, Olives, and Capers
This fish with tomatoes, olives, and capers comes together quickly and is full of bright Mediterranean flavors.
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Skillet Chicken & Gnocchi with Caramelized Fennel, Onion, and Apple
This skillet chicken and gnocchi with caramelized fennel, onion, and apple cooked in chicken drippings makes a perfect fall one-pot dinner . . . It’s also super simple. You basically throw everything together in a cast iron skillet and roast it for about an hour. You’re left with caramelized fennel and onion baked in chicken…
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Whole Chicken Roasted in Maple Rosemary Butter
Just in time for fall, this roasted chicken with maple rosemary butter makes our whole house smell amazing . . . Why a Roasted Maple Chicken I started looking for more roasted chicken recipes recently. We had been doing lots of chicken thighs (which are completely delicious and are nearly impossible to overcook despite my…
Vegetarian Mains
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Goat Cheese Souffle with Fresh Herbs
I make this goat cheese souffle with fresh chives, tarragon, parsley, and sometimes basil from our garden . . . This is another great vegetarian main, especially in the summer if you have a lot of herbs on hand. We aren’t vegetarians in our house, but I try to swap out meat a few nights…
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Giant Greek Beans Baked with Tomatoes, Olives, and Herbs
These giant Greek beans are delicious straight out of the oven or cold the next day . . . I started making this dish just this summer. Our local Greek restaurant makes a fantastic version, so I decided to see if I could make an easy version at home. After several months of experimenting, I…
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Crispy Mushroom Tacos with Turmeric Yogurt
Easy crispy mushroom tacos (with an option to add beef) . . . These crispy mushroom tacos were inspired by a New York Times recipe for Mushroom Shawarma Pitas and my own unadulterated laziness. They are a great option for a vegetarian main. Origin Story The story starts with a plan to make the NYT…
Dessert
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Chestnut Tart with Dark Chocolate Ganache
This chestnut tart with dark chocolate ganache sits on top of a pecan shortbread crust and is topped with a lightly sweetened vanilla cream.
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Brown Butter Pecan Cookies (Melt-in-Your-Mouth Style)
Crumbly, melt-in-your-mouth brown butter pecan shortbread cookies that smell heavenly, topped with flaky salt . . .
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Healthy Dark Chocolate Pudding
This healthy dark chocolate pudding is incredibly rich and decadent, despite containing lots of nutrients and no added refined sugars.
Sides
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Lemony Wild Rice with Saffron and Fresh Tomatoes
This lemony wild rice with tomatoes is easy to make ahead of time and keeps well so that you can enjoy it again and again throughout the week . . . With everyone in our household adjusting to an earlier schedule now that school’s back in session, I’ve been turning to some of my “old…
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Giant Greek Beans Baked with Tomatoes, Olives, and Herbs
These giant Greek beans are delicious straight out of the oven or cold the next day . . . I started making this dish just this summer. Our local Greek restaurant makes a fantastic version, so I decided to see if I could make an easy version at home. After several months of experimenting, I…
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Za’atar Roasted Carrots with Yogurt Sauce
Easy roasted carrots that look like they took work, making for a delicious, last-minute, child-friendly side . . .
Salads
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Spring Pea and Cucumber Salad with Feta
Chilly spring pea and cucumber salad This pea and cucumber salad is all about celebrating springtime. There’s just something about hitting May and heading into summer makes me crave cold fresh peas. The ones that aren’t even a little bit mushy and almost pop when you bite into them. This salad was inspired by that…
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Fresh Corn and Tomato Summer Salad
This corn and tomato salad with fresh mozzarella is perfect for cooling down in hot weather! The weather has finally started to feel like it’s not trying to murder us all (it has started to warm up a bit), which means it is time for one of my favorite summer salads: fresh sweet corn and…
Snacks
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Orange-Scented Cranberry and Carrot Muffins
These cranberry and carrot muffins smell like sweet oranges and are filled with pops of tart fresh cranberry . . .
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Ginger Apple Bran Muffins
If you could put an apple crisp into a muffin, these ginger apple bran muffins would be how . . .These are relatively healthy, super-fiber apple and bran muffins. Because they are made with apple, dates, and bran, they are packed with nutrients and natural sweetness (no refined sugars in the recipe!), making them both…
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Honey Bran Muffins with Tart Red Currants
These honey bran muffins are great on their own or with tart red currants thrown in . . . Yay! It’s the end of summer and red currants are in season! And they are so pretty! But wait, what can I do with red currants other than make red currant jelly? (Hopefully you, unlike me,…
