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What to Eat on Hot Summer Nights (Recipe: Versatile Black Bean Salad)

by Katie G
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Written by Katie of GoodLife Eats. With temperatures hovering just under 100 degrees F since we returned from our vacation I have decided one thing about meal time: It is simply way too hot to cook right now. But that doesn’t mean I can’t prepare dinner for our family. We still have to eat something. [...]

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Dinner

The Everything Beans e-Book (recipe: Black Bean Burgers)

by Aimee
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Beans are a staple in our home and I’m fortunate that both Danny and the boys enjoy them any way I serve them. While they insist they don’t get tired of bean & cheese burritos or Frijoles rancheros, I sometimes feel like I want to mix things up in the bean department. Enter a new [...]

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Dinner

5 Tips to Create Vegetarian Friendly Meals (Black Bean Burritos)

by Katie G
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Written by Katie of Good life {eats}. With the New Year beginning many of us find ourselves setting goals and often those goals are health related in some way or another. Yesterday while grocery shopping, the check out clerk casually commented that in January she sells more salad related ingredients than any other month. Health [...]

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Menu Planning & Batch Cooking

7 Favorite Do-Ahead Dinners for Winter (recipe: Chocolate-Chip Chili)

by Aimee
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A little blogging conference called Blissdom is happening in a few weeks in Nashville and I’m skipping the country to attend. I’ll also be skipping out on four days of laundry, lunch-packing and cooking. Woo-hoo! Hmm, the last time I traveled internationally on my own? It was over a decade ago and included sights such [...]

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Dinner

Warm up your Season with Beans (Recipe: Frijoles Rancheros)

by Diana
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Written by Diana of A Little Bit of Spain in Iowa. I am so excited to be here at Simple Bites sharing my family’s traditional Spanish and Mexican recipes. My hope is that you will be encouraged to try new flavors that are sure to spice up your life. Since the weather outside is calling [...]

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