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Pad Thai w/ Shrimp

Pad Thai with Shrimp ~ Quick & Easy Weeknight Recipes

  Who loves Pad Thai? We do! Every sauce-soaked noodle, crunchy peanut, fresh cilantro and lime part of it! Spicy? Yes, but not scorched-earth spicy (a.k.a. Thai hot), I prefer just-gets-your-attention spicy, somewhere around medium, please. I’m not looking for a bead of sweat to form on my brow unless I’m trying to finish a [...]

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Creamy Garlic-Dijon Chicken: Back from the Archive Abyss

  Do you ever have the occasion to stare at a hunk of meat and wonder what it wants to be for dinner? It was a package of boneless-skinless chicken breasts that held my gaze. In general, I have a plan, but sometimes I am just not in the mood for the predictable. When that [...]

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Stone Soup and The Well-Fed College Student

College is a season of life with precious little time or money for nutritious food. Most meals are heavy on carbs to fuel the schedule, yet light on the sustaining nutrition the brain requires. However, being a well-fed college student goes beyond checking the mail for the next care package or searching the grocery aisles [...]

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Tuscan Garlic Chicken Pasta: Test Kitchen Tuesday

This is one of those recipes I have had tucked away for a long time–anything with six cloves of garlic has promise, right.  Pasta dishes are ideal for a quick weeknight meal, use Tinkyada brown rice pasta and it’s gluten-free too. Basil is at its peak right now, available at most farmers markets—I anticipate that [...]

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That Easy, Go-To Meal: Grilled Tri-Tip Roast

You know what it is like cooking for a family—you cannot please everybody all the time.  Wherever two or more opinions are gathered there is rarely 100% agreement over what to have for dinner, except when Tri-Tip is on the menu. We discovered tri-tip when we lived in California years ago and it remains our [...]

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Curry Chicken Salad

  Curry Chicken Salad is a popular menu item for a luncheon or afternoon tea, but I do not often think to make it at home.  Just a couple handfuls of ingredients creates a refreshing lunch or light dinner—too good to reserve for dining-out only. Upon reviewing recipes, it was apparent how easy this salad [...]

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