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Recipes: Asparagus Soup
Pureed asparagus thickened with potatoes and cream or flour and milk and garnished with emerald green asparagus tips will make both recipes springtime favorites.
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Asparagus: Quiche and Salad
Lightly steamed asparagus can be used for main dishes, side dishes, soups and salads. These asparagus quiche and asparagus salad recipes are two delicious examples.
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Asparagus: Pizza and Wraps
Here are two quick and easy asparagus recipes for indulging in one of Spring's most glorious offerings.
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Recipe: Tuna with Chickpeas
This easy-to-make tuna and noodles dish can be cooked up in half an hour, start to finish.
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Fish Stew with Coconut
This Brazilian seafood stew is easy to make and works well as a main dish when served with rice. The chiles make it just right for a cold winter night.
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Recipe: Kusherie
This Middle Eastern main dish is the perfect combination of legumes and whole grains.
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Recipe: Banana Nut Bread
Banana nut bread is delicious for breakfast, lunch, brunch or a snack. These two recipes include instructions for mixing the batter in a blender: quick and easy!
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Recipes: Oven Puffed Pancake
These brunch recipes for Easter or any spring brunch occasion are easy to make and fun to serve.
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Caldo Verde and Chard Tart
This green soup and savory tart are both Swiss chard recipes, easy to prepare and elegant to serve.
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Recipes: Chayote Squash
This Mexican squash is becoming more popular in the States and easier to find in grocery stores.
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Kitchen Gadgets Galore
Owning and using the right kitchen utensils can make putting together a nutritious meal faster and easier.
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Recipe: Breakfast Granola
A variety of grains and nuts combined with oil and honey make this a recipe for a healthy breakfast cereal.
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New York Style Cheesecake Recipes
These recipes for 2 cheesecakes are made with plenty of cream cheese and flavored with lemon juice or semi-sweet chocolate and amaretto liqueur.
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Recipe: Pumpkin Cream Cheese Roll
Cream cheese filling spread on pumpkin cake is a variation on the traditional jelly roll.
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Recipe: Chocolate Cake Roll
A twist on traditional jelly roll, this chocolate cake and whipped cream holiday dessert is sure to delight everyone on Valentine's Day.
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Recipe: Sauted Winter Greens
Kale and chard are hardy winter greens that can be sauted quickly and easily for a tasty side dish rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, potassium and dietary fiber.
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Recipe: Curried Winter Squash Soup
Using a hand blender makes pureeing this vegetarian soup quick and easy.
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Recipe: Super Bowl Chili
This chili recipe for 20 can be made a day ahead to save time on the day of the big Super Bowl party!
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Recipe: Sopa Salsa Sabrosa
An easy recipe that can be put together quickly after a day of outdoor winter fun.
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Recipe: Spinach Mushroom Quiche
Whether in the dead of winter or in the warmth of midsummer, this quiche and its variations will delight family and friends.
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Recipes: Hot Cheese Squares
Combine beaten eggs with green chiles and cheddar cheese or spinach, mushrooms and 2 kinds of cheeses for a tasty appetizer to serve hot or at room temperature.
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Cheese Balls and Cream Cheese Dips
Softened cream cheese is easily transformed into a variety of dips and cheese balls to be served with fruit, vegetables, crackers, chips and party breads.
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Appetizers for Super Bowl Parties
Tortilla pinwheels, one with ham and cream cheese, one with salsa and cream cheese, are easy to make- and-take when someone else is hosting the party on Super Bowl Sunday
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Recipes: Corn Bread Variations
There are as many different ways to make corn bread as there are different kinds of corn meal. Here are two recipes that work well with yellow or white corn meal.
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Recipes: Black-eyed Peas
Just in time for New Year's Day, here are 2 recipes for dressing up those black-eyed peas to bring good luck to friends and family for 2008.
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Recipe: Mexican Biscochitos
Two recipes for this spicy cookie (also called Bizcochitos) provide options for ingredients
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Community Supported Agriculture
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) promotes seasonal cooking with a weekly delivery of fresh tasty produce and many other healthy advantages.
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Cookbooks: Fresh Vegetable Recipes
These 3 titles offer tasty, easy recipes that make cooking with fresh, in-season fruits and vegetables a pleasure regardless of the time of year.
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Roasted Butternut Squash Pie
Follow these steps to take butternut squash from the garden to the dessert plate.
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Recipe: Braided Christmas Bread
Christmas bread is a tradition in many households. Follow these steps to create a decorative cinnamon braid that will easily become a Christmas tradition in your family.
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Black Bean & Butternut Squash Stew
Whether you use dried or canned beans and fresh or frozen tomatoes and chilies, this recipe will yield 8 delicious servings of hot spicy stew.
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Growing Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes are easy to plant, require a minimum of effort while growing and yield a bountiful harvest that will store well into the winter.
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Radio Astronomy
Instead of optical telescopes, astronomers use antennas and computers to study the Universe at wavelengths invisible to the human eye. So, how does that work?
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Garlic: Hardnecks & Softnecks
Whether hardneck or softneck, your choice of garlic for the garden should be a variety well-suited for your environment.
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Sweet Potato or Yam?
Whether you call it a sweet potato or a yam, it is packed with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants and is super easy to enjoy.
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Storing Apples
Nothing evokes the feeling of fall like the smell and taste of a good crisp apple. Here are three easy ways to store them and preserve that taste.
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Book: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle
Barbara Kingsolver's "A Year in the Life" details how her family attempted to eat only foods produced within a 100-mile radius of their farm in Virginia. How did they do?
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