Easy Beet Salad or Beet Spread

If you like beets, you’ll like this easy beet salad that you can also use as an easy beet spread on crackers and such. Grated beets, lemon juice, plain yogurt and finely chopped toasted walnuts are all you need. Well, and salt. And love. I serve it as a side salad sometimes, and other times…

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Make-Ahead Lentil Salad

make-ahead lentil salad with broccolini, lemon and hazelnuts

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again and again and I’ll never stop saying it, probably, but there is nothing better in the hot, hot summertime than a salad waiting for you in the refrigerator. This make-ahead lentil salad is a prime example. Make it when you have an off moment and it…

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Pizza Party Time!!

homemade pepperoni pizza with fresh basil

We recently got an outdoor pizza oven — Ooni Koda 16 — and it’s been so fun experimenting with different pizza dough recipes for ourselves and our friends. Friday night pizza night is a much more active tradition now. And our friends love it when we host a pizza party, too! Chris and I started…

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Vegetarian Cassoulet Beans

vegetarian cassoulet beans with field roast sausage

Springtime is the right time for vegetarian cassoulet beans. I finally got into the heralded and exclusive Rancho Gordo Bean Club and we’ve been eating our weight in beans to try and keep up! Included in the most recent delivery was a pound of cassoulet beans, which I’d never had before. And I was surprised…

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Sheet Pan Salmon with Asparagus

Roasted salmon and asparagus sheet pan dinner with pomegranate mignonette sauce

I realize I’m late to the sheet pan dinner game, but that’s only because I hate to turn on my oven because it heats up the kitchen so much. But I can’t deny the ease of this sheet pan salmon with asparagus! Add some purple cabbage for color and when it’s out of the oven,…

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Three Bean Salad Recipe

three bean salad recipe with red beans, white beans, green beans

Everything I love to eat was invented by someone’s grandma. Three bean salad is a good example of “old lady food” but you know what, old lady food is yummy and this three bean salad recipe is a good one. I have an undying devotion to bean salads. They’re wonderful. Make them on a day…

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Gigante Bean Salad

Delicious gigante bean salad with apples, corn, jalapeños and apple cider vinaigrette

Healthy, delicious gigante bean salad with apples, corn, jalapeños, apple cider vinaigrette and Royal Corona gigante beans

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Vegan Chili

Bowl of vegan chili with onions and pickled jalapeños

I served this vegan chili at our Super Bowl party last night (Go Rams!) as part of a Frito pie buffet and three people asked for the recipe so I figured as long as I was writing it down, I’d put it up here, too. I was kind of surprised I hadn’t posted this yet,…

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