Healthy summer recipes :

Summer Tomato Pasta Salad

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You see certain recipes and you know its YOU (err..or should it be FOR you?!?… .whatever!) It suits your personality, tastes, style, timing, your energy levels and well throw few more of “bits of you” in there! You realize[...]

Cheesy Summer Veggie Saute

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Feeling repentant for weekend excesses?  I know I am.  (We aren’t going to talk about the love affair I had with the guacamole dip and chips at a party we went to the other night)  Getting back on the bandwagon is hard when you’re[...]

Sizzling Summer Steak Tacos

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So, tomorrow is July 4th and the biggest barbecue day of the year. I’m having my own barbecue tomorrow for my friends and I’m really looking forward to it. I love the traditional barbecue foods of burgers, hot dogs, ribs & all[...]

Ecume d'été: Summer mousse

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For those not-so-torrid summer days. Frozen blueberries add just the right amount of cool. Other ingredients include: apricots [an early July must], jasmine green tea [leaf-form, not brewed], cinnamon, and whatever else you[...]

Easy Zucchini Summer Soup Recipe

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Easy Zucchini Summer Soup It’s getting to be that time of year when zucchini starts to pop up everywhere.  And if you have a garden with zucchini in it, you’ll start to feel suffocated by the little green[...]

Summer Fest Week 4 - Tomato Salad

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Tomatoes are a paradoxical plant. Botanically, they're a fruit ? they have their seeds on the inside ? but in the kitchen we treat them as vegetables. While their flesh is a staple in many world cuisines, their leaves are toxic enough to poison[...]

Summer Fest Week 3 - Zucchini Soup

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Zucchini is one of those innocuous vegetables that doesn't really stand out. Sure, the small ones can be tender, but the large ones tend to get spongy. Because of the high moisture content and neutral taste ?and it's debatable zucchini actually[...]

End of Summer Quinoa & Lentil Salad

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I can hear it now across the pond…’What is Kweenoah anyway?’ That was you Mr. Eske, was it not? Pronounced KEENWA, this is an ancient “grain” native to South America. It is high in protein and has light, fluffy[...]

Lemony Summer Squash with Teriyaki Tofu

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The farmers’ markets are filled with beautiful courgettes & summer squash — I couldn’t pass them up! If you made my homemade Teriyaki sauce over the weekend you may have some extra sauce in the fridge. Here’s a[...]

Summer Sufferin? Succotash (with Grilled Chicken)

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Suferrin’ Succotash! Remember that saying from Sylvester the Cat in the Looney Tunes cartoon? That was pretty much the only time I had heard the word succotash and as a kid I had no idea what it was or meant. Come to find out[...]