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This is nice with the wild mushroom bisque. It starts with arugula & almond pesto. This is based on something that I saw the increasingly annoying but still a little helpful, Rachael Ray make on 30 Minute Meals. She used hers as a dip for lamb chops, mine I spread on a sandwich -- hey! …

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This was so very, very good. We had this the other night when jwa's cousin and her husband came over for dinner. They are vegetarians, which are fun guests to cook for, as I used to be a vegetarian too. It brings me back. Anyway, while perusing for a recipe I remembered how much I …

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I highly dislike raw carrots. I know that they are good for me, I know that they are healthy, just -- ew -- they taste like dirt. But, then I found this recipe in the most recent issue of Everyday Food. Their version of this salad used grated carrots. Myself, because all we had were …

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This was...wonderful. Wait, I'm getting a little emotional. Hold on. Okay. I'm fine now. This recipe is from a cookbook that I've had for six years and have never made anything out of before. And now I've made this and I'm planning my dish for Cookbook Challenge4 to be from this book too. Why, it's …

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Really, it's just an excuse to post these tuna photos. jwa and I had a wonderful dinner of seared tuna, cucumber slaw and (this time) sesame noodles with bell pepper and shitake mushrooms not too long ago. The original tuna and cucumber recipes are here, which is exactly what I did for this dinner. We …

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