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Spicy sweet tart Thai Salad

Spicy Sweet Tart Thai Salad (or wrap!)

Spicy sweet tart Thai Salad
Oooo yeah – spicy, sweet, tart, Thai salad sorcery!

This is my take on a NOT so classic Thai favorite. Sweet, salty, spicy, earthy and tart flavors all harmonize into a sort of funky perfection in this restaurant inspired main dish salad. Lots of big bold flavors and textures going on all over the place here, I can tell you what. But wait! If you want to streamline this whole situation, and make things EVEN easier (yes, even easier than a SALAD) there’s the whole lettuce wrap angle to explore. Lots of crunch, lots of sweet, lots of spicy, lots of salty…lots of napkins (have you ever navigated a lettuce wrap? Don’t do it in a white shirt is all I’m saying 😏).Spicy sweet tart Thai Salad

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Super Speedy Kale and Sausage Pesto Pasta

Super Speedy Kale and Sausage Pesto Pasta

Super Speedy Kale and Sausage Pesto Pasta

Yeah, okay, so what you see right here is the reason that I occasionally succumb to the call of the carbs; the snare of the semolina; the pernicious pull of the PASTA…

I love the stuff.

But then who doesn’t?

Pasta is just so stinkin’ easy, and when you’re busy (who isn’t) and hungry (who isn’t) and quite possibly lazy (wait, maybe that’s just me over here) there is nothing that pasta can’t do for you. Throw it into a big pot of boiling water and ten minutes later (give or take) you are DONE. Douse it in something yummy (oh man, this ragu sauce will put you on a stretcher it’s so amazing…if you want to take all day to make it 😬) and you are good to go.

Nothing particularly newsworthy there.

So then what’s this?

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Grilled Corn on the Cob Salad

Grilled Corn On The Cob Salad

Grilled Fresh Corn Salad

This is the perfect summer salad for so many reasons.

  • First off, the star of this show is fresh corn on the cob which just happens to be available right now and is only about the best thing EVER.
  • Second, you have to do a little grilling for this, and what is summer without a little grilling?
  • Third, if you have any pot-luck, picnic type outdoorsy soirées to attend, show up with this and you will be very popular….even more popular then you already are, if THAT’S even possible.
  • Fourth (this is my favorite), sometimes it’s just not practical to be eating corn on – the – COB. Drippy, buttery, all up in your teeth? Um, delicious, yes, but no, not always the best look, amirite?
  • Last but not least (okay now, this is really my favorite) this is just so, so seriously good.
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Simple Summer Quinoa Salad

Simple Summer Quinoa Salad

Simple Summer Quinoa Salad

Summertiiiiiiime, and I’m sweaty and LAAAY-ZEE……

Bugs are bitin’……..and humiditys’ hiiiiiigh.

Still I’m hungry……and I gotta make DIN-ner,

this one is a winner, eas-y as piieeee.

(OMG, that was horrible, I must be suffering from heat stroke) 😬

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Chicken and Mushrooms with Garlic Roasted Broccoli

Chicken and Mushrooms with Garlic Roasted Broccoli

Chicken and Mushrooms with Garlic Roasted Broccoli

Winner winner; chicken, mushroom, garlicky broccoli dinner!

Okay yeah, I know I made that a little longer than it was originally intended but I think you’ll get over that once you try this one. IT IS just SO GOOD!

Take tender chicken cutlets lightly dredged in seasoned flour and sautéed until just golden, then smother them in a super simple mega mushroom made-in-the-same-pan sauce.

Yep, you remove the cutlets once they’re done and whip together a beautiful mushroom gravy with all the wonderful browned bits of goodness left in the pan, just like the pro that you are! Then you’ll sliiiide that chicken back into the hot tub and serve this sinfully saucy succulence with some crispy charred, garlic kissed roasted broccoli stalks.

You’ll be the MVP of the dinner crowd. As usual. 🤗

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Bacon Potato Asparagus Hash

Bacon Potato Asparagus Hash

Bacon Potato Asparagus Hash

I discovered this gem of a recipe by SmittenKitchen waaaahey back in 2010. I tried it. I loved it. Then for reasons that I can’t quite explain off it drifted into the vacuum that sometimes stands in for my brain…never to pop into my conscience thought process again. byeeeeeeeeee

Until just last week.

I was scrolling through Instagram (I know, I know, soul twisting time suck that it may be) and up pops this beauty – Deb’s Spring Asparagus Pancetta Hash – from the archives.

Hey there! I KNOW YOU! Memories suddenly flooded back into my vortex (wax on wax off, I guess) of smoky bacony goodness, perfectly browned cubes of potato and tender crisp asparagus pieces all loved up together with a little caramelized onion along for the ride. THIS WAS SO GOOD! I specifically remember how much I loved it at the time. HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN? (oh am I yelling now?)

Are you telling me I have wasted 8 years of my life???? This makes me so unhappy. Bacon Potato Asparagus Hash

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My Favorite Green Smoothie go -to

My Favorite Green Smoothie Go To

My Favorite Green Smoothie go-to

Wait. Where have I been?

Are green smoothies no longer considered cool?

Yeah well, it sorta looks that way. What was once considered edgy and avant-garde (what? raw GREEN vegetables in a DRINK? scandalous! too healthy! yucky! no thank YOUUUUU!) and exclusively for the nutritionally elite has since (d)evolved into something about as pedestrian as… a hamburger. Not that I don’t love me a burger now and then but throw a rock and you’ll find a green smoothie on the menu of at least a zillion coffee shops and fast-food joints nationwide.

Packing more fruit and fillers than anything particularly leaf-like, these corporate blends can serve up to 100 whopping grams of sugar in ONE smoothie! Now that is just KrAzIE! No wonder they are so dang tasty……..yet this kind of kills the charm of a green (as in = good for you) drink in the first place. Which is really too bad.

So I’m bringing leafy back.

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Super D-Raw Cauliflower Salad

Super D-Raw Cauliflower Salad

Super D-Raw Cauliflower Salad

D is for DETOX . . . but mostly plain old D-ELICIOUS.

Holy mother of munch-worthy-ness, I am insanely obsessed with this salad right now. I want to eat it every day of the week. I want to feed it to everyone I know. I want this to be the official salad that shows up at every pot luck and BBQ that you (or I) attend any time of the year from this day forward.

FOREVER.

Oh, and it will I tell you – because it is so stinkin’ easy, and EVERYBODY will love it. No lie.

AND it’s wildly good for you! I can’t even stand it….too many wins.

Is that even possible?

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Super Simple Tomato Tart

Super Simple Tomato Tart

Super Simple Tomato Tart

I know we have some time (and unpredictable weather) to muddle through before it’s actually tomato season, but since SPRINGING FORWARD we ARE officially one hour closer, right? Lose a little sleep, gain a different perspective, (#tradeoffs) I for one am too excited for the lighter later days ahead.

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