Food + Drink
Winding Down with Arugula-Proscuitto Flatbread Pizzas
It has been a crazy, busy, wonderful summer. Time to wind down and relax. Fire up the grill for easy to prepare flat bread pizzas Sit, relax and enjoy. Argula-Proscuitto Flatbread Pizzas Serves 4 Recipe from Food Network Ingredients: 2 pieces lavash or other flatbread, halved 1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive oil, plus more for brushing
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Chili Rubbed Shrimp Tacos with Pico De Gallo and Cilantro-Lime Crema
Let’s Get This Party Started! Friends open up the windows, invite your family and friends, turn the music up loud, fill the ice chest with cold beer, locate a good porch wine, or better yet shake up a cocktail, it is officially BBQ season (or inside grill pan season). This is an easy to put
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Garlicky Shrimp with Olive Oil
Let’s keep it simple…Life happens. A cold beer or a glass of wine….And a loaf of crusty bread to soak up the garlicky oil is all that you need to make this easy to prepare shrimp dish perfect. Garlicky Shrimp with Olive Oil Serves 8 (first course Servings) Recipe from Food and Wine Ingredients: 1
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Clean Eating: Roasted Apple with Ricotta, Hazelnuts and Dark Chocolate
Sharing my food from my kitchen and garden are important to me, followed by the simplicity of preparation. With these thoughts as my foundation I am also reminded that to be healthy, I have to eat healthy. Don’t get me wrong I eat my share of crap food, on the run, and through the drive
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Baked Sweet Potato “Fries”
Got sweet potatoes? Did you know that orange fleshed sweet potatoes have a significant amount of beta carotene (Vitamin A)? Did you know that just the addition of 1 tablespoon of olive oil can ensure that our body increases the uptake of beta carotene to about 35% of our daily requirement? There are a lot
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Savoring the Season: Lemon Chicken Orzo Soup
Soup in my world is fundamental. It is basic, real and soulful. My love affair with soup may be because simply stated Soup can just happen. It can be made from almost anything leftover bits of meat, veggies, discarded celery tops, a handful of beans or pasta woven together in a broth, it just works,