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Summertime Cooking Strategies

May 1, 2009 By 2 Comments

Vickilynn Haycraft and Shonda Parker released a fabulous new book, “Naturally Healthy Cuisine: Real Food for Real Families.” Since we’re coming up on summer, when we all hate to heat up our kitchen with cooking, I’d like to share one of their helpful summertime cooking strategies from the “Surviving Summertime” section.

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Cold Cut Dinner

July 11, 2007 By Leave a Comment

As I mentioned in Healthy & Cool Summer Meal Ideas a cold dinner can be every bit as delicious as a warm meal. In the summer, it is infinitely better because one isn’t left feeling stuffed and hot. Here’s a cold dinner Jeff and I shared this weekend. Jeff’s dinner – green slaw, smoked wild [...]

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Cold Quinoa Salad

July 11, 2007 By 5 Comments

Undoubtedly, my favorite grain is quinoa. We use it in place of rice, for variety. I think it is beautiful. The pearls turn translucent when cooked and the pretty little spiral threads that curl off the grains are enchanting. This summer, I’ve discovered cold grain salads — and quinoa makes delicious cold salads. This is [...]

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Healthy & Cool Summer Meal Ideas

July 8, 2007 By Leave a Comment

Don’t want to heat up the house to cook a healthy, tasty dinner? In the mood for a cool and light meal, rather than a meal that leaves you feeling hot and stuffed? Here are four healthy ideas to help you beat the heat with your summer meals. Cook Outside You don’t have to have [...]

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Summer’s Bounty Cabbage Salad

September 11, 2006 By 1 Comment

This salad gets its name because it is so good with summer garden produce. The salad we enjoyed yesterday contained patty pan squash from our garden; perfectly ripe tomatoes from our friend’s garden; and local cabbage and bell peppers from a farm stand. Summer’s Bounty Cabbage Salad 1/2 head green cabbage — thinly sliced 2 [...]

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Cooking Outside

July 25, 2006 By 5 Comments

In the heat the last few days, I’ve been cooking our meals outside in the roaster oven. No heating up the kitchen. For easy cleanup, I line the insert pan with a couple layers of foil no matter what. When I baked burritos, I rolled them up and layered them in the pan. In between [...]

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Baked Burritos

July 5, 2006 By 3 Comments

We had lots of taco fixings leftover from having guests on Sunday. For Monday’s dinner and lunch, we had baked burritos. Perhaps you know about them already, but for us, we have just discovered them and love them! I’m planning to have a tray of them ready for Haniya to pop in the oven next [...]

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