Zucchini Recipes

Pretty soon zucchinis are gonna be coming out of our ears! Really, more like coming out of the ground and shooting into our ears and mouths, and tummies, until everyone’s just sick of it and is ready for the world to end. BUTTTT……. Don’t do that! Instead, scope these zucchini recipes for some unique and…

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Sweet Potato Recipes

Everybody knows that sweet potatoes are chock-full o’ vitamins and fiber and minerals and all that. And probably everyone has a couple of go-to sweet potato recipes they use over and over again. Mine are microwaved sweet potatoes with butter, salt and pepper (not exactly a recipe, but it is an easy and quick way…

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Sweet Potato Salad

sweet potato salad

This sweet potato salad is a great way to have your delicious, potato-y carbohydrates while secretly incorporating some fiber and vitamin A and jalapeƱos — which are all very healthy. I made a pesto kind of dressing with cilantro and green onions and I have a strong suspicion that a few leaves of mint would…

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Grilled Corn on the Cob – Elotes!

Grilled Corn on the Cob Recipe Video (scroll down for recipe) Subscribe to my YouTube channel to get notified of new videos. GUYS. I learned how to make grilled corn on the cob, Mexican-style I mean. The kind, you know, it’s smoky and grilled and cheesy and creamy and lime juicey and salty and a…

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Spicy Peanut Coleslaw

peanut coleslaw

I’ve never been real big on mayonnaise coleslaw. It’s usually too sweet and too gooey. I am REAL big on this peanut coleslaw, however. It’s got a kind of Asian-thing happening with vinegar and soy sauce boogying down with cilantro and jalapeƱo slices and you can make it with either almond butter or peanut butter,…

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Hilah’s Texas Kitchen: Goat Cheese Salad

Episode Two: Blue Heron Farm, Pecan-coated Goat Cheese Salad This episode was one of my favorite to shoot. The owners of Blue Heron Farm, Lisa and Christian, are super cool (as is every small farmer I’ve ever met. I swear that business is a magnet for bad-asses.) and their goats were SO FUN! I’d never…

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Kale Salad with Bacon

kale salad

ANOTHER KALE SALAD?! GROSS!!!! Um, that was rude, guys. Hear me out. This one is super delicious. And nutritious. And colorful and beautiful. And has optional bacon bits. Which I realize is a kind of iffy ingredient when we’re trying to call it nutritious, but that’s why they’re optional! Get it?! JEEZ! Basically, everything in…

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Roasted Broccoli with Sunflower Butter

I love roasting vegetables, especially crucifers like cauliflower and broccoli. If you know someone who is averse to these gamey vegetables, try roasting. When you roast them, or any vegetable, it removes some of the liquid, develops the natural sugars, and of course gets toasty brown bits which is always good when food is involved.…

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