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Erin

Zucchini Fritters

Start This Recipe about 1 hour before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation,

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Erin

Marinated Zucchini Salad

Start This Recipe 3-5 hours before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation,

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Erin

Tomato Dill Soup

Start This Recipe 1-2 hours before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation, and affordability

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Erin

Zucchini Frittata

Start This Recipe 1-2 hours before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation,

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Amy

The True Cookie

In our house growing up, this was known as the “True Cookie.”  The best chocolate chip cookie recipe ever.  I’ve changed a few things, as

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Erin

Stuffed Zucchini

Start This Recipe about 90 minutes before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of

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Erin

Carrot Coconut Mold

Start This Recipe 2-3 hours before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation,

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Erin

Camp Stove Pad Thai

We’ve always been a camping family. The Sweetie Pie and I once made a two-week cross-country trek without ever staying in a hotel room. Once

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Erin

2 x Green Beans = More Beans

Start This Recipe about 30 minutes before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of

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Andrea

The Perfect Pancakes

On busy weekday mornings, we often settle for a quick bowl of cold or hot cereal. However, if you stop by our house on any

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Erin

Zucchini with Tomatoes

Start This Recipe about an hour and a half before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility

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Mandi

Plan to…Craft?

Photo by AForestFrolic.com My mom and I recently held a marathon crafting session to prepare for an upcoming Christmas series that I’m hosting at Life…Your

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Amy

Fried Lily Blossoms

You could probably fry grass clippings and they’d taste pretty darn good; it’s hard to go wrong with crispy and fattening.  Here’s just one more

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Erin

Peach and Mango Chutney

Start This Recipe about 2 days before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating   1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease

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Erin

Grilled Tuscan Chicken

I know it’s the end of summer and your grilling recipes have gotten pretty stale. Maybe you’re entirely sick of the grill and are ready

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Erin

Carrots Vichy

Start This Recipe about an hour before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of

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Amy

Agar Agar, Matey!

I often discover something new and exotic to love when I shop at the local Asian market.  This time it was agar agar.  I’ve been

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Erin

Not-Your-Mama’s Ketchup

Start This Recipe About 2 days before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of

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Erin

Popcorn and Peanuts

Start This Recipe 10 minutes before you want to eat it (Popcorn); 36 hours before you want to eat it (Peanuts) Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb

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Amy

Pink Fairy Drink

When I was in middle school my dad went to Nepal for a month.  He came back bearing exciting stories, turquoise jewelry, stunning photographs, and

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Erin

Wild Rice Casserole

Start This Recipe about 10 hours before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of

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Andrea

Cleaning Out Your Stockpile

Now that it’s officially summer, I am thankful that our weekly schedules have slowed down a bit. We have almost no sporting events, committee meetings,

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Erin

Pemmican

Start This Recipe 24-48 hours in advance Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation, and affordability I didn’t know

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Erin

Natural Cleaners

One of my allergen-induced symptoms was a horrible case of eczema on my hands. It made my job as a mama really difficult, since I

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Erin

Crispy Pepitas

Start This Recipe about 24 hours in advance Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation, and affordability This recipe

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Erin

A Few of My Favorite Things

I have logged many, many hours staring at nutrition labels in the grocery store aisles reading ingredient lists, searching for allergens and hidden allergens (why

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Erin

Brown Rice, Two Ways

Start This Recipe 2-3 hours before eating (for unsoaked rice) or  8 hours before eating (for soaked rice) Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member

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Amy

Summer Flower Salad

Along with the veggies in our garden, there are a bunch of delicious, edible flowers in our yard. We have a ton of day lilies

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Mandi

Mix & Match Fruit Smoothies

Because all of my girls have dealt with dairy intolerances when they were infants and toddlers, I’ve never made yogurt/milk smoothies. Instead, I make pure

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Erin

Moroccan Style Chicken

  Start This Recipe about 12 hours before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease

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Andrea

Quick, Simple Cookie Bars

I LOVE fresh-from-the-oven cookies, but I don’t always love the time it takes to scoop out individual balls of cookie dough, wait in the kitchen

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Amy

Whole Wheat Challah

I wish I’d made this bread for Easter, it’s so delicious and lovely. It is, of course, another Peter Reinhart stroke of of genius. The

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Amy

A Perfect Spring Dessert

My mom has this amazing recipe for rhubarb pie.  Unfortunately she has forbidden me to ever share it!  However, I recently made this rhubarb cobbler,

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Erin

Stuffed Endive Leaves

Start This Recipe the day you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of ingredients, ease of preparation, and affordability I

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Erin

Cultured Dairy 101

Start These Recipes at least 4 days before you want to eat it Dinner Table Rating 1 thumb per family member Cook’s Rating Accessibility of

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Lisa

A Change in Direction

Congratulations to Lisa. She is the winner of the final giveaway in our Jamie Oliver cook-along. We have really enjoyed cooking through much of Jamie’s

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