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Baby Summer Squash, Tomatoes and Blue Cheese Salad

This time of the year, when the local produce is hitting the supermarkets and farmer’s markets, I try to eat my vegetables in their raw form because they taste amazingly good. Of course, if the vegetables are from your backyard, they are super fresh and cooking them is probably squandering away some of their vitamins and definitely their taste....
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Fresh Mint-Dill Dip

For the past 4-5 days it had been raining cats and dogs in Washington DC. We had constant rain and I barely managed to get out of the house. Of course, the result was that my backyard veggie patch had to be totally neglected. Finally this morning when a tiny bit of the sun came out, I went out...
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Stuffed Potato Pancakes

Indian potato pancakes (or Aloo Tikki as they are known in India) are the ultimate in comfort food for me but since they are usually loaded with carbs and don’t have any protein in them, I feel awfully guilty eating them (as they are tantamount to eating completely junk-food in India). Also, most Indian deep fry them, which also...
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Italian Sausage, Beans and Corn Tropical Salad

This is another one of those spur-of-the-moment one pot dishes that I put together for lunch yesterday. It tasted great and was a well-balanced meal – with protein coming from the sausage and the black beans, carbs from the corn and beans again, crunch from the red bell pepper and yummy taste coming from the mango and spices. The...
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