Category: Fall Favorites
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Mediterranean Pasta Without The Pasta!
If you love pasta and you love vegetables, you will love this! It is packed with vegetables and flavor. Pastas are high in carbohydrates and most often, high in gluten. If you are looking for a change pick up a spaghetti squash at your grocery store or market and enjoy a ‘pasta-look-alike’ that has only…
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Fall Cabbage & Onions
Fall brings on welcomed, oven-baked dishes. Cabbage and onions are pantry staples that bring lots of hearty flavor to anything they are part of. Add a bit of diced, cooked ham and the wonderful fall flavor of this recipe intensifies. I like to bake this in four, individual dishes, but it works just as well…
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Extreme Chicken Ciabatta Sandwich – For Tables & Tailgates!
My Extreme Chicken Ciabbatta Sandwich is a meal in itself. It really is as it has your vegetables, fruit, dairy, grains, and proteins in every bite. This is the perfect sandwich to take anywhere, even to a tailgating event, and it is just as perfect for your own table. The recipe makes 6 sandwiches that…
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One-Bite Raspberry Pies
Raspberries are luscious. Stretch them out by making these little pies. They are one-bite jewels! Simple and very low in fat, they are hard to resist. The ‘pie crust’ is made by using mini-phyllo dough shells that are found in the frozen food aisle at your grocery store. These usually come twelve to a package…
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Fresh Tomato & Barley Salad – A Healthy Taste Of Fall!
Tomatoes appear everywhere in September in the Midwest. Grocers, farmers markets, and generous neighbors often host more tomatoes than you would think anyone could possible use. Cherry tomatoes are no exception, and are the star in this salad. The barley, which by the way if you haven’t tried you should, is delicious, filling, healthy, and…
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Mushroom Sauce – Stands Alone or Dresses Up Anything!
Mushroom sauce is delicious served so many ways! Mixed into any pasta with a bit of Parmesan cheese and you have an easy, but delicious meal. When my kids were little they loved it spooned on buttered bread and eaten for lunch. They were fussy about the mushrooms though, they had to be cut into…
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Baked Oatmeal – Breakfast In A Bite! Low-Sodium, Fat, & Gluten Free!
While visiting my daughter recently she mentioned eating baked oatmeal. Thoughts of mushy, gooey, porridge came to mind. Our grandchildren instantly perked up! “Yum!” Their ‘yum’ surprised me, and intrigued me. The girls were too hungry to wait the thirty-minute baking time and enjoyed stove top oatmeal laden with fruit. Baked oatmeal didn’t leave my…
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My Favorite Sloppy Joe Recipe
Sloppy Joes seem to have been around forever. Ever wonder how they came to be? Loose meat sandwiches were popular in the early 50’s. Legend has it that a cook named Joe (of course) in Sioux City, Iowa (of all places!) added tomato sauce to his loose meat sandwiches and people loved them, but thought…
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Holiday Sweet Potato Rounds
Sweet potatoes and holiday dinners seem to go hand in hand. Mashed sweet potatoes are good, but not traditional. Baked sweet potatoes oozing with brown sugar, butter, and marshmallows are present on many, many, holiday dinner tables. Sweet potatoes are delicious this way, but usually everyone who eats them, if over the age of 20,…
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Cranberry Banana Bars – Just In Time for The Holidays!
Oh my! May I just say these bars are a nice change of pace! If you have never combined cranberries and bananas, you haven’t lived. For some silly reason we always think of cranberries in the fall around Thanksgiving time. I am sure it is because cranberries ripen and are harvested in the fall. But…