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Banana Blueberry Oatmeal Breakfast Bars

Make a batch of these bars over the weekend and have them on hand for the rest of the week. They make a lovely breakfast-on-the-go, and the combination of oats, almonds, oat bran, coconut flour, flax seed, hemp seed and amaranth means that these little bars are not only filling, …

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Moong Dal Vegetable Curry

If this dish were on a restaurant menu, it might read something like this: Split mung beans with eggplant, broccolini, cremini mushrooms, baby spinach and sweet cranberries in a light, creamy curry sauce, served over steamed basmati rice. Sounds fancy that way, doesn’t it? This recipe has a really diverse …

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Inspired Vegetable Broth

It’s flu season. I just finished nursing my husband back to health from a rather nasty version of the bug that had …

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Crunchy Almond Pecan Granola

Crunchy granola. Breakfast of champions and timeless trailside snack? Ah yes, you know it well. But Dictionary.com offers an alternative interpretation: Adjective, …

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Green Tea Lime Pear Sorbet

Another celebration of fall fruits, this sorbet can be served as a light, refreshing dessert or a palate-cleansing intermezzo course for your …

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Pumpkin Caramel Brownies

Happy Thanksgiving! Around the holidays I’m about as gleeful as a child. Friends and family, excuses to make yummy food — what’s not …

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Homemade Caramel

Caramel is sugar that has been heated to a liquid state, so that its molecules are restructured, giving it its characteristic color …

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Green Piña Colada Smoothie

What would you like for breakfast today? How about an instant vacation? I was originally planning to dub this concoction my “green-ya …

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Garlicky Heirloom Tomato Sauce

Growing up in a household in which the predominant ethnic influence was Italian, I was raised on homemade tomato sauce. (Interesting trivia: …

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Pesto-Stuffed Mushrooms

The perfect appetizer to accompany a glass of dry red wine, or a snack to add a little “gourmet” to your afternoon. …