Dinner

Dinner

Coconut Ginger Chicken & Vegetables (Slow-Cooker Challenge)

by Aimee
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Given as a wedding present nearly ten years ago, my slow-cooker hasn’t seen nearly enough use. I tend to reach for my cherry red Le Creuset French oven for braising and stewing. However, as our family is growing and appetites are expanding, I can see the practical side of having a large crock pot and [...]

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Pantry & Spotlight Ingredients

9 Foods to Stock in Your Pantry in 2012

by Aimee
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Every January, my pantry inevitably needs an in-depth examination. So I clear out the remnants of holiday foodstuffs that have collected – candy canes, cracker fragments, sprinkles and other cookie decorations – and take a good look at what is left. A lot of my homemade jam and preserves have been given away as gifts; [...]

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Dinner

Eat Well, Spend Less: One Turkey, Four Meals

by Aimee
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Perhaps you head to your parents’ or the in-laws’ for Thanksgiving and other holiday meals, where someone else cooks and carves the turkey. Maybe you’d also like to cook a whole turkey at home (and have a few leftovers to play with), but it’s way too much meat for your little family. Here’s my proposed [...]

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Dinner

A Vegetarian Dinner (Recipe: Leek & Mushroom Bake with Polenta Crust)

by Aimee
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We tend to eat at least seventy-five percent vegetarian during the week, yet for some reason when I entertain on the weekends, I often feel obligated to serve up a big slab of meat. It might be a roast chicken, filet of salmon, or lamb curry, but seldom is it vegetarian fare. As I was [...]

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Nourishment

Unprocessed Week Recap (Recipe: Cream of Potato-Leek Soup)

by Aimee
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To say that our week of eating only unprocessed foods went by without much ruffling of feathers would be a fair statement. If you remember, we had pledged to one week of ‘hard core’ unprocessed eating and the entire month of October as ‘soft core’, meaning we might indulge in chocolate chip cookies or hot [...]

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