Ready for a delicious feel good pasta recipe? It’s loaded with garlic, sweet leeks, and marinara sauce and it’s easy as 1,2,3.
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Mt. Tam Spinach and Cheese Pasta Gratin
Think of this as a pasta gratin with creamy cheese sauce, lots of spinach, lots of onions, and full of flavor.
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Kohlrabi Kootu
Kohlrabi kootu is a lentil stew made with South Indian spices and kohlrabi. A delicious stew with the lovely fragrance of asafetida and coconut milk all combined with soft creamy lentils and vegetables such as kohlrabi, peas and green beans.
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Farro Salad with Baby Spinach, Apple and Blue Cheese
Another hearty salad to share with you today. This one is made with farro that is soaked in lemon honey dressing and tossed with crunchy apples, spinach and bleu cheese.
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Kale and Pear Salad
Pear, peppers, olives, red onions and feta with kale sauted in garlic and herbs. These are the ingredients that make this salad so good.
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Pear Grape and Farro Salad
This is a wonderful salad with mixed greens, whole grains, pear, grapes, nuts, red onions, and sharp cheese all tossed in a maple sauvignon vinaigrette. Sounds so good, right?
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Mushroom & Spinach Pasta
Mushroom, spinach, garlic, pasta – for one of those sucky days at work or one of those lazy nights at home, when all you want is something quick, easy and comforting. Besides, did someone say pasta? It’s always a winner.
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Christmas Eve Dinner Twenty Twenty
Today I’d like share some pictures from a phenomenal dinner on Christmas Eve with just our two families – ours and Vijay and Priya’s. A small gathering with loads of fun!
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Early Fall Black Eyed Pea Salad
I call this an early fall black eyed pea salad because it has lots of ingredients that are in abundance right now- veggies such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and even fruits such as pomegranates. Really hearty and wonderfully delicious this black bean salad is.
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Tomato Rice
At this time of year I get loads and loads of tomatoes from my neighbor. So many that to prevent them from spoiling I chop them up and freeze them to use throughout the year. I’ve made so many tomato based recipes that taste fabulous just from that one wonderful ingredient – garden fresh tomatoes. Having exhausted a lot of tomato recipes I ventured to try something new with my current batch of tomatoes – an Indian style tomato rice.
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