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Chickpea and Desiccated Coconut Salad

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This salad is my take on a standard Indian recipe for a warm chickpea salad. For some odd reason my husband loves chickpeas – in every shape of form! He loves hummus, he loves Chana Masal and he loves this couscous chickpea dish that I make and he loves this chickpeas salad. He loves them so much that if...
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Spicy Nicoise Salad

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A few years ago I spent a whole month in Nice, France and fell in love with the city, the weather and most importantly the food! I know most hoity-toity French think of Nice as dirty and low class and prefer the surrounding towns on the Mediterranean Coast in southern France such as Antibes, Cannes or Ville-franche sur Mer....
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Feta and Veggie Pasta

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Now that the holidays are behind us, most of us are trying to shed the weight we gained during the crazy party season.  For me, even though I didn’t go to too many parties, I gained the weight because both my kids were home from college and being a typical Indian mother I thought the best way of making...
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Asian Shrimp and Avocado Salad

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Asian Shrimp and Avocado Salad I love sushi but I am also trying to reduce my intake of simple carbs.  Of course, I could try making sashimi but then I miss out on balancing my diet – so the compromise for me is to make a green salad (baby arugula and baby spinach)with some of the elements of sushi that...
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Feta Burger with Caramelized Onions

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Being complete carnivores, my husband and my eighteen years old son are absolute burger hounds. When my son comes back from college (he is a very small liberal arts college which has an isolated campus, so his only food choice is the college cafeteria or a measly Quizno’s on campus), the first place he hits is Five Guys! And...
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