Category Archives: RECIPES

Roasted Cauliflower and Pea Shoots Mediterranean Salad

After the extremely harsh winter, my vegetable patch is just about starting to come to life. I am so happy to see little sapling making their way out of the ground. This year I have had mixed luck – my eggplant seeds, squash seeds, and watermelon seeds just seem to have been lost in the dirt (haven’t sprouted or...
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Confetti Crab Cakes

Being die-hard and proud Maryland natives (I love the fact that our state has the strictest gun lows, allows same-sex marriage and has some of the best public school – so basically MD puts is money where its mouth is!), my entire family loves Crab cakes. Of course, I prefer to buy my crab meat from local producers. A...
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Grapefruit, Avocado and Quinoa Salad

My regular readers may have noticed that nowadays my recipes are leaning more and more towards healthy cooking. The reason is that just recently I was told that my A1C is rising (due to asthma medications) and that if I want to avoid getting full-blown diabetes, I have to eat super-healthy food. Of course, this came as terrible news...
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Pickled Butter Beans

My college-going daughter introduced me to pickled butter beans available at the olive bar at Kroger in Bloomington, Indiana. It was love at first taste for me. So when I came back home I tried to look for these pickled beans at my local supermarket but they just didn’t seem to have any. Finally I found some at the...
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