Category: Seasonal Favorites
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Springtime Creamy Asparagus Soup
Fresh asparagus is one of the first foods harvested by most gardeners. The fresh taste is welcomed and long awaited by asparagus lovers everywhere. Roasted, steamed, and grilled are all popular ways to enjoy asparagus. If you want to indulge in a delicious, low-calorie soup, try Springtime Creamy Asparagus Soup. It tastes rich and yet…
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Cream Puffs – Not Just For Dessert!
Cream Puffs are so easy to make, delicious to eat, and work with so many different fillings. Did you know cream puff shells are great for dessert, lunch, and as an appetizer? I like making mini-cream puffs as in the recipe below and using them in a variety of ways. Flavor your pudding or whipped…
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Easy Seafood Shells
Looking for an alternative to meat-based pasta dishes? How about a jumbo pasta shell filled with a seafood mix that is a bit crunchy, a bit succulent, and filled with rich seafood flavor, without using a ton of seafood? Seafood filled shells are the answer. The recipe is a bit on the ‘light side’ as…
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Scrumptious Marinade For Beef & Venison
Steak on the grill is a warm-weather favorite. Whether beef or venison this marinade works so well. It adds a luscious flavor, not over-powering, just delicious. A nice benefit is it also tenderizes the meat and allows you to enjoy less expensive cuts. Beef stew meat marinated and then placed on skewers is great. Like…
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Pizza Bundles
[ultimate-recipe-submissions][ultimate-recipe-submissions] Pizza is my ‘go-to-favorite’ thing. We lived in northern Italy for a time and I swear I became addicted to pizza. Now anything that even closely resembles pizza is an automatic win for me.I have never met a bad pizza.Well once I did – a pizza with goat cheese and figs. Another story. There…
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Baked-Squash With Onion Glaze
Thank goodness you can get squash nearly year-round from your grocery store. Squash makes a good vegetable side when you are craving something that isn’t canned or frozen and your garden is resting under a blanket of snow. Lucky for me, in early March, I still have a few squash that are stored in my…
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Creamy Wild Rice Soup
On a cold day nothing tastes better than a bowl of homemade soup. Creamy Wild Rice Soup is tasty and comforting and will fill you up with its deliciousness. Wild Rice has a unique taste and a satisfying texture. Did you know wild rice isn’t really rice at all, but a grass? No matter, it…
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Not Your Typical Baked Chicken Burritos
Leftover baked chicken is so versatile, and I always seem to have a bit in the freezer. I wanted a hot chicken-type casserole to utilize a bit of leftover chicken and came up with this burrito recipe. The recipe includes a few ingredients unique to burritos, and excludes a few you would commonly expect. It’s…
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Italian Vegetable Soup – Just Right Anytime
This is a seriously good soup. It can be finished on the stovetop or put all the ingredients in a crock-pot on low to cook all day to have the rich aroma greet you when you get home at the end of a long day. There are lots of good vegetables in this thick soup…
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Beyond-Good Baked Chicken Dip
Chicken salad is a favorite of mine. While craving it the other day I got to thinking about how good a hot chicken salad might be so I gave it a try. The result is a fantastic chicken dip that has the most unique flavor. It works perfectly for a dip and is just…