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White Bean and Tomato Salad

Friday, June 18, 2010

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White Bean and Tomato Salad

Salads usually aren’t on the “must eat” list for dads out there but this one is a great side dish to just about any grilled or picnic food and dad will love it too! This white beans and tomato salad in it's lemon and oil dressing just gets better as it sits!

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Pizza Bianca

Friday, June 11, 2010

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Pizza Bianca

Pizza is loved by all, but sometimes you want something different than the usual tomato sauce. This pizza includes an alfredo sauce that is topped with roma tomatoes, fresh basil and mozzarella cheese!

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Basil Tortellini Pasta Salad

Saturday, May 22, 2010

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Basil Tortellini Pasta Salad

This basil tortellini pasta salad is a perfect dish to bring on a picnic or to a BBQ for Victoria Day or Memorial day which are coming up! It’s made with a vinaigrette dressing that will have it tasting better and better the longer it sits so, it will keep if you have to make it ahead of time!

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Taco Salad with Baked Tortilla Shell

Sunday, May 2, 2010

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Taco Salad with Baked Tortilla Shell

Taco salads are tasty but can be very fatty due to frying the tortilla shell. This recipe makes it much more healthy just by baking the tortilla instead! For a lighter Cinco De Mayo meal try this with ground turkey, shredded chicken breast instead of beef and 0% plain yogurt (instead of sour cream).

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Homemade Ketchup

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

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Here’s a video showing how to make homemade ketchup with a pressure cooker!

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Tomatoes, Sweet and Savory!

Monday, April 26, 2010

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Tomatoes, Sweet and Savory!

What food is both sweet and savory? Considered to be both fruit and vegetable? Loved by many and hated by just as many? The tomato! Tomatoes are considered to be the most popular fruit (botanically speaking) in the world. They’ve even been given some interesting names such as “apple of love” by the French and “apple of paradise” by the Germans!

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Cooking Technique: How to Preserve Food Through Pickling!

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

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Cooking Technique: How to Preserve Food Through Pickling!

Preserving foods has been going on for thousands of years in different forms to keep our food from spoiling. One of the main ways is to pickle your food, which not only preserves the food for later use, but can change the taste and texture of it.

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