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Fruit-Nut Wheat Berry Salad

Until I started this blog and started putting my recipes down on paper, I hadn’t realized that there was a pattern to my style of cooking/eating.  As I look at the various recipes and pictures I have uploaded, a clear pattern seems to emerging now – I clearly like colorful healthy foods that taste good and are easy to...
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Easy Sweet Corn and Bean Salad

This is the quickest and best tasting one-dish-meal that I prepare.  In the summer when I can get locally produced fresh sweet corn, this is on my table for at least a couple of times every week.  It takes very little time to prepare and is nutritionally well balanced.  A bowl of this salad is great by itself for...
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Lumpia Goreng/Crispy Spring Rolls

This is another one of those Indonesian recipes that I learned from a friend in Jakarta and is a favorite with everyone in my family. It is meant to be a snack in Indonesia but my kids often make a whole meal out of these. They taste so good that it is difficult to resist them. I try to...
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Mediterranean Tri-colored Quinoa

In an attempt to eat healthy, I have started experimenting with Quinoa. A few days ago I found tri-colored Quinoa at the local Trader Joe’s (TJ’s) and instantly thought of cooking with it.  This recipe has a base of Quinoa (which has the ability to absorb other flavors very well and still retains its texture) in combination with all...
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Chicken Friand

A Dallas based faux-French chain of restaurants called La Madeleine,  first introduced Chicken Friand to my family. For years my children would want to go to this restaurant just to eat that one dish. They did not even want to try anything else – it was the only thing they ever tried there and it was the only thing...
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