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Israeli Couscous Pesto Salad Recipe

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Mediterranean Quinoa Salad Recipe

  Every now and then I discover or rediscover a particular food, and suddenly, my daily eating routine is altered by meals adjusted to accommodate that food. Eating is transformed.  Eating up until the moment of that first taste seems trite.  

Hot House Tomato Salad Recipe

  Winter is getting the best of me, as I ache for the fruit and vege of warmer months. This yearning makes me so weak that sometimes I can’t resist buying that fancy plastic box of exotic-looking cherry tomato varieties, shipped all the way from a hot house in Mexico. Such purchases weigh on my [...]

Pizza Margherita Recipe

  Each time Brian and I return to the city after being away with either of our families, we have a knee-jerk reaction to eat pizza. Under normal circumstances, this means that we either roshambo to determine which one of us is going to go stand in line at Artichoke, or, when we are feeling supremely [...]