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Panzanella – Summer Bread Salad Recipe

What’s the all-time best summer food combination? Tomatoes and basil, of course. Juicy, ripe summer tomatoes…sometimes still warm from the sun…served with fresh basil…you simply can’t get better than that. This helps explain why one of our favorite summer salads is panzanella, an Italian bread salad, made with summer vegetables and day-old bread. For kids, […]

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angel baby

Angel Baby (Angelcot Dutch Baby Pancake)

We’re in the middle of trying to convince our kids that a Dutch baby pancake is just as good as a Pop-Tart. “Mom, we’re on summer vacation now,” moaned our 9-year-old. “Can’t we just go down to the store and pick up some Pop-Tarts for breakfast?” Sheesh. How badly have these kids suffered during an entire […]

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lentil brownie

Lentil Brownies

You’ve gotta love brownies. You can put just about anything into them. As long as you have enough chocolate and sweetener in them, they’ll still make a gooey and satisfying dessert. Case in point: Our kale brownies, and now these lentil brownies. We hadn’t ever thought of adding lentils to brownies, until we met up […]

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purple potatoes and flowers

Purple German Potato Salad

There is nothing quite like the little thrill you get when you slice open a sweet potato and see…purple. These Stokes Purple Sweet Potatoes from Frieda’s are brilliant in color (the color intensifies when they are cooked) and they are not quite as sweet as a regular sweet potato so they’re versatile for both sweet […]

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cashel blue cornbread

Cashel Blue Cornbread

There’s blue cheese and then there’s blue cheese. If you’ve tried Cashel Blue Cheese from Kerrygold, you know that it is different from the ordinary. It’s so smooth, creamy, and fragrant, you just want to put it in everything. So when Kerrygold gave us an opportunity to sample some Cashel Blue and design a recipe […]

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beet soup

Beet Soup – Super-Easy and Super-Tasty

Roses? Rubies? If you want to show Mom some truly brilliant shades of red and pink for Mother’s Day, serve her a beautiful beet soup. That’s right, beets. Even though we live on a different coast from our mom, we know she’d love this brightly hued beet soup. It’s super-easy and super-tasty – simple enough […]

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orange ginger lemonade glass

Orange-Ginger Lemonade is a Refreshing Treat

Got fresh produce from the farmers’ market? That means it’s a chance to make orange-ginger lemonade. Of course we’ve mentioned that on farmers’ market days we love to cook greens and make pesto. But we love doing fun things with the fruit as well – and that means more than just making mini-jitos. When we […]

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