Healthy Choices
"lighter" recipes without sacrificing flavor...
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Peach Basil Relish {or Salsa}
Peach Basil Relish aka Peach Basil Salsa.
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Homemade Fresh Tomato Juice {Vegetable Juice}
Homemade Fresh Tomato Juice. When you’re craving a Bloody Mary with brunch and you’re in your pj’s with no intention of removing them anytime soon and there’s zero tomato juice in the house…
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Veggie Frittata {Breakfast Burrito or Quesadilla}
“We can sleep til we get up.” That’s what we love about Saturday mornings. We did at least until we got a puppy. Now we “sleep til Scrappy Thyme gets up.” So while I lay in bed this morning waiting for her to call to us, I was thinking about breakfast. And how I might use up the mother load of leftover fresh salad ingredients that had taken over my fridge. That’s when I decided to make a Veggie Frittata.
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Fresh Veggie Nachos {Sundays with Shelby}
Fresh Veggie Nachos {Gluten Free}. I love my kid. I know. We all do (love our kids that is). But I’m at that really great place you get to, when your ‘kid’ isn’t that much of a kid any more and becomes that cool friend you want to hang out with. For our most recent Sundays with Shelby outing, we went to R. Thomas Deluxe Grill.
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Whole Roasted Tandoori Cauliflower {with Mint Chutney}
Whole Roasted Tandoori Cauliflower with Mint Chutney. I realize this recipe is not for everyone. Someone in my house was a bit skeptical himself. Having said that, if you’ll follow this picture montage to the end, you’ll see what a whole roasted tandoori cauliflower looks like, only 17 minutes after it comes out of the oven. And I didn’t work alone.
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Curried Chicken Salad & Avocado {with Almonds & Pomegranate}
Curried Chicken Salad & Avocado with Almonds & Pomegranate. The avocado is one of the healthiest fruits you can consume….and would benefit from by doing so every day. Check out these Nine Amazing Avocado Health Benefits you may not have known. Then start thinking about the many ways you can enjoy these in your daily diet.
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Watermelon Salad {with Feta & Mint}
Watermelon Salad. Simple, yet so refreshing. A perfect bite-sized summer appetizer. Chilled seedless watermelon cubes, crumbled feta cheese, sprinkling of fine diced red onion, drizzle of balsamic glaze, garnished with mint leaves.
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Homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup
Homemade Cream of Mushroom Soup. I recently saw a fb post from a well known blogger that asked followers if they used canned goods in their cooking. She received hundreds of comments that ranged from “NEVER” with a long list of the reasons why not to, to “My husband and I both work. Coming home to a crock-pot meal (that calls for cream of…) allows me time to play with my daughter before bed.”
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Baked Summer Squash Chips
Have you ever made Baked Summer Squash Chips? Last July when summer squash was in abundance at the Farmers’ Market, I couldn’t help but bring home my fair share after every visit.
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Thai Beef Salad {with Fresh Herbs}
Thai Beef Salad. What a lovely way to enjoy a good piece of beef. I know most recipes call for using lean flank steak. And while I’m sure that’s very nice on this salad, on the rare occasion that we have steak, I prefer the most tender cut I can find. And that would be a filet. Grilled to medium-rare. Sliced nice and thin. It was that thought alone that inspired this recipe post. Every bite of this Thai Beef Salad is a flavor explosion.
