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Rustic Garlic Butter Pasta with Roasted Broccoli

I love pasta. I eat mushrooms. And I buy clearance shirts that are actually swim cover-ups. How and why could I fall in love with a shirt that’s not a shirt? That makes me nervous.

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Caribbean Jerk Salmon Bowl with Mango Salsa

This week I made salmon. Spicy salmon with tons of flavor and good-for-you vitamins. Then issued myself an automatic license to eat 50 leftover Cadbury Eggs. I love salmon. But really, the salmon. Chipotle seems to always be on the brain these days, which lead me to morph my salmon dinner into a Caribbean Burrito [...]

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Skinny Fajita Shrimp Pasta

You guysss. I’m looking at the world through Mexican-flavored glasses. I may not definitely do not have the looks, the suave, or the rhythm whatsoever, but I swear I have Mexican flavors in my soul. Mexi-Italian fusion skinny pasta? I’m telling you, it’s gotta be in my soul. I did take salsa lessons once. I [...]

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Garlic Chicken and Vegetable Pot Pie

Easter Highlight #10: Cheesy potatoes, carrot cake, and chocolate bunnies. Cheesy potatoes, carrot cake, and chocolate bunnies. Chees… Easter Highlight #9: Wearing my sunglasses minus one sun glass and not being the first to realize it. Easter Highlight #8: “Daddy Took the Bunny” – an original vocal composition by Bjork sung from behind the wheel [...]

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Light BBQ Chicken Pizza

I’ve always been fashionably late with… fashions. Like Capris. As a brace-faced-bad-bangs 8th grader, I was convinced that I would never ever wear them. My friends went capri crazy but I resisted. As luck would have it, I came to realize that my friends were right and now I have a closet full of capris [...]

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Healthy Mexican Sweet Potato Skins

Oh my goodness. Like, WHOA. Could there be anything better than sweet potato skins filled to the brim with roasted corn, black beans, cilantro, a kick of spicy chipotle, and melted cheese? Seriously?

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Almond Crusted Tilapia

Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to work from home. This week I’ve been on Spring Break, and since I have a book to finish writing (almostdone almostdone almostdone), I get to try out this whole working from home gig. If you can call it that.

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Coconut Green Curry Lentils

You guys, when it comes right down to it, I’m an OCD hypochondriac. I’m pretty sure I’m singlehandedly driving Web MD’s traffic right now. In between stuffing my face with lentils, I’ve been known to do investigative work on Web Md and make extreme self-diagnoses. I also do this in between bites of sandwiches. And [...]

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Chicken Tamale Pie

Today’s lesson is on healing foods. You might be thinking of brightly colored veggies and lean proteins, and I can dig that. Most of the time. But today I’m thinking of creamy corn bread, spicy enchilada sauce, seasoned chicken, and melted cheese baked into a pie dish. A PIE DISH. That right there is healing.

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{Light} Orange Beef and Broccoli

Beef reminds me of my Grandpa. And Grandpa reminds me of the tour-de-Grandpa’s-old-farms that we did last summer after he passed away, which reminds me of cornfields, sunsets, and hanging off the back of trucks while driving down dirt roads. And by hanging off the back of trucks, I mean hanging off the back of [...]

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