Carrot Soup
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Curried Carrot Soup Recipe. Cold Variation

Carrot Soup: It stars the humble carrot, with all the flavorings that compliment it: Ginger, maple syrup, apple cider, orange zest. The warm autumn spices do wonders in this soup. Don’t be afraid of serving carrot soup to your guests! It…
dry spice rub roast turkey
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Dry Spice Rub Roast Turkey Recipe

This Dry Spice Rub Roast Turkey This recipe alone would justify why my dry spice rub recipe yields such a large batch. You will, like me, get so attached to it you will never again look at a commercial dry spice rub mix. You will…
A bunch of different spices in glass containers
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Dry Spice Rub Recipe. Multiple Awesome Uses

Dry Spice Rub   I guarantee it will lick any commercial concoction you may have been buying! Mine is overlaid with our beloved Moroccan flavors: oregano, cumin, paprika, turmeric, cilantro. Please don't recoil at the size of…
A bowl of food on top of a table.
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Wild Rice with Mushrooms and Chestnuts Recipe

Wild Rice with Mushrooms: You are in for a treat! Perfect with roast turkey. Wild rice can err on the expensive side when you buy it packaged in those little boxes. Buy it straight from bins at health food stores or in price clubs. Whatever…
A bowl of fruit is sitting on the table.
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Minted Cranberry Orange Relish Recipe

Cranberry Orange Relish is a treat you can make year round, since frozen cranberries are always available and delicious. The flavor match in this cranberry orange relish is unbeatable: Cranberries, mint and orange. Delicious with poultry dishes.…
A bowl of lettuce on top of a table.
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Boston Lettuce and Chopped Herbs with Shallot Cider Dressing Recipe

Boston Lettuce is one of my favorite lettuces. So delicious that just Boston lettuce properly dressed, and hardly anything more, is enough to make you a wonderful salad. I'll bet this Boston lettuce salad is the shortest salad green selection…
A close up of a pecan pie on a plate
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Pumpkin Pecan Pie Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

My Pumpkin Pecan Pie is a much lighter, less cloying and more natural but no less delicious version of the classic pecan pie. Kiss your corn syrup goodbye (I have long since banished it) and enjoy making this pecan pie filling and many other…
Cabbage Sauerkraut soup
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Cabbage Sauerkraut Soup Recipe

My Cabbage Sauerkraut soup makes double use of cabbage. I look for every excuse to use the humble cabbage, like in this cabbage sauerkraut soup. Talk about gastronomie sans argent, with nutrition worth its weight in gold. Cabbage and caraway…
Thai Pumpkin soup
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Quick Thai Pumpkin Soup Recipe

Thai Pumpkin Soup This flavor lineup in this soup is unbeatable. It is overlaid with Asian flavors: peanut butter, ginger, cinnamon, coconut milk: Mmmmm... it sounds almost like dessert! I love the whole pumpkin and squash family, and welcome…
apricot oat bars
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Apricot Oat Bars Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

My apricot oat bars are incredibly easy and wonderful! There is nothing I don’t do with oats, even mudpacks and hair rinses (which of course I don’t eat, or drink, respectively: Relax!) No problem whatsoever adapting these apricot oat bars to…
Fava Bean Soup
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Fava Bean Soup (Bessara) Recipe. Iced Variation

Fava Bean Soup Fava Bean Soup. This is a funky and much beloved Moroccan classic, called Bessara. Fava Bean Soup soup costs pennies It also takes no time to make, but it tastes like a million bucks, much more seductive than the sum of…
semolina soup
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Moroccan Semolina Soup Recipe. Gluten-Free Friendly

In my native Morocco this semolina soup is often breakfast. Semolina soup takes minutes from beginning to end and costs pennies, and it is so satisfying. I have whipped it up countless times when I needed to round out a meal in a jiffy. You…