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All asparagus avocado Broccoli Broccolini Brussels Sprouts Cauliflower Corn Cucumbers Fennel Green Beans Kale Mushrooms Mushrooms Peppers Poblano Peppers Spaghetti Squash Spinach Squash Sweet Potato Swiss Chard Tomatoes Zoodles Zucchini
Roasted Mushroom and Spinach Casserole

Roasted Mushroom and Spinach Casserole

Roasted Mushroom and Spinach "pie"Poor little mushrooms. Somewhat underrated (what, a rubbery fungus?) and most often times an afterthought (I’ll take a large with pepperoni, sausage, peppers, olives….and, oh yeah, mushrooms) or delegated to the appetizer section of the menu (where they will be either stuffed or fried, let’s face it) mushrooms are really a versatile if not under-appreciated gem of an ingredient!

Thanks to the influence of my favorite fan of all things schroomie (hi, Michelle!), I took a look into the benefits of adding more of these guys into the diet….and I found that mushrooms contain just as much of an antioxidant capacity as tomatoes, pumpkins, green beans or zucchini! Surprise! Plus they are a great source of selenium, a mineral you don’t generally find in most fruits and veggies. Then there is the vitamin D and folate …. good news for any fungi fanatic, because lotsa people do not get enough of either. Consuming mushrooms can help with immunity, heart health, and even play an important role in DNA repair.

I don’t know about you……but I could definitely use some of THAT. eeek

SO eat your veggies….and your fungus. This creamy, cheesy, comforting casserole (yeh, I’m bringing the casserole back…don’t even try to stop me) will make it easy.

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Roasted Broccoli with White Beans Salad

Roasted Broccoli and White Bean Salad

Roasted Broccoli and White Bean Salad

Let me tell you why you want to make this salad. Okay, first and foremost…it is delicious! Charred and delicately crisped roasted broccoli spears serve to just barely wilt down a healthy pile of spinach leaves, all pumped up with cannellini bean powered protein and…if that wasn’t enough for you…..sumptuously draped in a creamy, briny, lemony-dill infused Dijon dabbled dressing! Secondly; it only takes about twenty-five minutes to get this on the table, and third; you can do the meatless Monday thing any day of the week here and be totally fat and happy.

Well. Happy, yes; fat, no.

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Kale Chickpea Sweet Potatoes with Sriracha Sauce

Kale Chickpea Sweet Potatoes with Sriracha Sauce

Kale Chickpea Sweet Potatoes with Sriracha Sauce

So we’re told to “eat a rainbow”, and of course that makes perfect sense. As a lover of all things delicious and good for you (as well as all things delicious and not so good for you…..Arg), this pretty plate comes pretty close.

Hearty, rib stickin SUPAH-green, kale plays well here with meaty chick peas and carmelized onion. Sounds good already! Now pop that over a beautifully roasted until it is soft and sweetly smooth boss of beta-carotene sweet potato. Slather the whole thing with a purdy pink dollop of sriracha spiced yogurt sauce and you will be seeing rainbows! And unicorns!

Or, maybe that could be just me who does that……😜

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Not Your Gramma's Stuffed Bell Peppers

Not Your Gramma’s Stuffed Bell Peppers

Not Your Gramma's Stuffed Bell Peppers

This is a recipe update from 10-17-2013

Soooooo…… do you know any vegetarians? Are they nice to you? Want to make ’em happy? Want to make anybody happy for that matter? Then take the twenty minutes you will spend in prep time out of your day and make these sunny jewels. Unlike the dense, rice and ground beef Campbell’s tomato soup inspired stuffed green bell peppers of your wonder years, (which I happen to love as well) these peppers are gorgeous, fresh, and actually healthy. Nestle these pretty babies over a bed of quinoa laced with peppery arugula and crunchy sunflower seeds, and you just may look forward to more “meat-free Mondays“.

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Quinoa Kissed Spinach Salad

Quinoa Kissed Spinach Salad

Quinoa Kissed Spinach Salad

I have good news. No, you didn’t win the Publishers Clearing House Giveaway.

Sorry. But, listen………

Mangoes are available in January. Did you know this? I gotta tell you, I absolutely did not so when I spotted them at my not exactly trendy local grocery store I bee-lined right over and snagged a couple….but not without my suspicions. Produce out of season typically equals either way expensive or not-sah-good (usually both). Turns out mangoes have two growing seasons depending on where they’re from. January mangoes! This is awesome! No, really, this is exciting stuff!

But only if you like to eat.

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Slow Cooker Beef and Peppers

Slow cooker beef and peppers

Slow cookers, crock pots, insta pots….call em whatever you will. I like this method. A lot.

Put a bunch of stuff in a pot; turn it on. Walk away. Set it and forget it, right? That is exactly right, until a few hours later when you catch a whiff of whatever good stuff you got going on over there on the kitchen counter. Then it slowly dawns on you… a-ha! Is it true? Could dinner be actually… (wait for it) …done?!???

Oh yes it can. Busy people (hi, Jen!) rejoice.

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Simple Homemade Marinara

So easy and incredibly delicious, there is NO reason not to ditch the dusty store-bought jar of marinara sauce you’ve got hiding there in the back of your pantry and make your own. With basically five ingredients (most of which you probably already have on hand) and some fresh herb-iage, in about 20 minutes….you’ll have a super quick, fresh sauce.

Got some time? Cook it down for another hour or more, and you’ll have a richer, thicker marinara. Want to add some heft? Add meat if you like…..mushrooms if that’s what makes your heart quiver….maybe some bell peppers. Want to get fancy? A glug or two of red wine….(easy now) will do the trick.

This saucy pot of crimson carotenoids (good stuff) will become the backbone of many of your favorite recipes, and you will feel really great about impressing everyone (yourself included) with a beautiful red sauce that is pure amore.

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Spinach & Ricotta Gnudi

Gnudi…as in nudie…rhymes with cutie…it’s your duty…(? ha) Yeah, these guys may not be so pretty to look at naked but they sure are good. Creamy, cheesy sorta dumpling-like, yet not quite dumplings, these little meatless-balls are like ravioli without the pasta wrapper. Hence, they are in the nude. (bada boom!)

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Sausage and Cauliflower Rice Stuffed Squash

Sausage and Cauliflower “rice” stuffed squash

Sausage and Cauliflower Rice Stuffed Squash

I love these little guys. You know, those cute little mini pumpkins popping up all over the place this time of year. They are almost too cute NOT to make into adorable edible vessels to stuff with all sorts of deliciousness, like this sausage and cauliflower “rice” goodness. Garlicky Chorizo adds earthy heat (not too spicy, just enough to keep things interesting) to a perfect base of onion and red bell pepper all married together with cauliflower rice. Yes, cauliflower rice, which is a wonderful thing…

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