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How have I gone this long posting photos of this recipe without actually sharing it!?  Very weird.  I grew up on this salad.  To me it was the epitome of summer.  It’s one of my strongest food memories from my childhood, and every time I make it I think of eating outside with my whole family, our hair wet from swimming in the pool all day.  It’s so refreshing.  We ate it as a side dish growing up, but I’ve started to make it as a main course, occasionally adding in diced chicken or roasted… Read more >

THIS DINNER! I think I may be eating this for the next week straight.  Or at least every day that Kyle’s out of town from now on.  It’s so good!  And so easy! It all came about when I was brainstorming what to make for dinner.  Usually when Kyle’s gone I try to make something with ingreds he doesn’t like (ie zucchini, cucumber, dill, pickled stuff).  But what I was really in the mood for was Italian dressing.  I know that sounds weird, but when you have a craving you have a craving. Rather than buy… Read more >

You HAD to know this was coming, right? This was actually inspired by a pot of steel cut oats I made for the kids last week, which smelled JUST like pie and thanks to the vanilla, cinnamon and brown sugar (!!!) I added to it, it basically was! Can you believe how juicy these nectarines are? Should I stop asking you rhetorical questions?? Seriously, though, all I did was a rough chop of these (in the pyrex).  Some of them I just squeezed with my hands until the pit popped out.  So that’s just raw… Read more >