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Eat Well, Spend Less: Five Ways With Lentils (Curried Lentil Soup)

by Aimee
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This month for our Eat Well, Spend Less series we’re talking about emergency preparedness. We were hit fairly hard by Hurricane Irene recently and lost power for 18 hours; others fared much worse. We were scrambling a little for things like flashlight batteries and warm blankets, but all in all, we didn’t suffer much during [...]

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Pantry & Spotlight Ingredients

Salute Spring! Asparagus (Recipe: Cream of Asparagus Soup)

by Katie G
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Join us as we Salute Spring with a week-long series featuring the finest fruits and vegetables of the season. Written by Katie Goodman Spring is here and so is one of my favorite vegetables – Asparagus! Asparagus has been one of my favorite vegetables for as long as I can remember. Growing up, I recall [...]

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Cooking School

How to Make Soup From Scratch

by kate
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This is a guest post from Kate Tietje of Modern Alternative Mama. Welcome, Kate! Do you love soup?  I do.  It’s a delicious, simple meal that can be tailored to any season, and contain almost any flavors.  There are even chilled soups and dessert soups. Most often, when people want to make soup, they go [...]

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Giveaways

Simple Food for Winter e-book Giveaway (recipe: French Lentil Soup)

by Aimee
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This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to Char, Megan, and Josie Landon, our three winners! You’ve been notified via email. Thank you to all who entered. There’s a cookbook I want you to know about, because it is different from anything that is propped up on your bookshelf right now. Simple Bites contributor and Nourishing [...]

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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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