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May / 162012

Beets and Sweets

This is a favorite recipe of my family as well as my clients.  I had a requests this week to add this to the blog – so Melissa here you go! Sweet potatoes and sweet onions help give this recipe it’s name as well as add amazing flavor.  Even if you never thought of combining [...]

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Apr / 062012

Roasted Brussels Sprouts with Shallots

Oh, how I love brussels sprouts.  It hasn’t always been that way though.  I can clearly remember as a child refusing to eat them.  The name alone used to bother me.  Thank goodness those days are over!  Today, my mouth waters from the thought of serving them.  My girls’ will tolerate them a thousand times [...]

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Mar / 292012

Spring Quinoa Salad

Spring is in full swing here in Atlanta, the trees are brimming with new bright green leaves and spring flowers are everywhere!  So what better to accompany these warmer days than a really clean tasting quinoa salad?  I have been looking for ways to up my iron and quinoa is stellar in everyway so naturally I look to it to [...]

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Mar / 282012

Chickpea, Lemon and Herb Salad

Popeye the Sailor Man – toot, toot!  Remember that show when you were a kid?  He was always popping open a can of spinach for extra strength so he could go and save Olive Oil from Brutus!  Well there really was something to it! This recipe was born out of a need for meals with [...]

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Mar / 212012

Carrot Fries

This is a fun twist on a kid favorite – the french fry!  These are not fried but rather roasted to bring out those natural sugars and delicious goodness!  Warning: they are addicting and have convered a child or two, even some adults who claimed to not like carrots have been seen eating these They [...]

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Jan / 042012

Carb Free Mashed Potato

What’s in season and how to eat it NOW :  Celery Root This is a interesting vegetable that is often overlooked based on how it appears on the outside – a large knobby brown root with smaller green stalks growing out the top.  It is not something that makes you want to just go home [...]

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