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Have a Healthy Thanksgiving
I know! I hear you. Thanksgiving is for eating all of the “brown” food, and for enjoying all the gooey, sweet and sticky with abandon…and then taking a nap while pretending to watch football. Add a little healthy and healing food to your traditional table. Yes, that’s true, but what if… What if you reduced…
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Soups & Stews
GOOD HEAVENS, IT’S COLD, even down here in South Carolina, where I live with my exceptionally sweet partner and spouse, Dewey. We went from temperatures in the low 70s to the 50s. Tonight we bring in Dewey’s lemon tree–it’s going below freezing out there, folks. Brrrrrrr! Time for hearty and comforting soups and stews. Don’t…
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Roasted Vegetable Salad
Frozen (or fresh) Brussels sprouts are roasted with cubed butternut squash. Once they cool, I add diced apples, red onion, sliced radicchio and pumpkin seeds. Everything is tossed with my apple cider vinaigrette and there’s your easy weeknight or weekend dinner. Add a roasted chicken, and you have a memorable meal loaded with nutrition. The…
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Pumpkins & Spice & Cream & Pralines
An easy-to-assemble and bake pumpkin spice custard topped with a glorious combo of whipped cream and almond pralines. How’s that for a make-ahead dessert to turn you into a dessert celebrity? I developed this recipe last November, typed it up in December and forgot to post it! Today, I present you with the best seasonal…
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A Dessert to Make You Cry
That’s right. My recipe for a traditional rice pudding with a Greek twist may actually cause you to cry. It’s another GrecoSoCo recipe–my take on a traditional Southern rice pudding. If you’re in a hurry, here’s the printable recipe, otherwise, scroll down for a teeny touching story. Rice Pudding? Yes, I’ve taken the traditional recipe…
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Where’s the Meat?
If you were to scroll through my posts over the years, you’d find meat dishes, but most of my posts and recipes are vegetable-forward. Why is that? Is it because I prefer to post recipes about side dishes? No, that’s not it. I’ll give you the answer, but first, please bear with me as I…
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Serendipity
Yes, that’s the word! Serendipity–an unexpected surprise. We’re visiting Dewey’s son, Thomas, in Seattle. Thomas has been a great host. Over the weekend, we visited his favorite spots at Pike Place Market to enjoy samples and small bites, had a fabulous first night dinner of local seafood while enjoying a late afternoon view of Puget…
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Keeping It Simple
Keeping it simple doesn’t mean that your meal will be tasteless. Gasp! Why, there’s a whole dietary movement devoted to “clean eating” where you cook the way people all over the world used to cook–you eat whole foods without much added and without sauces and processed foods. If you try it, it will be a…
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End-of-Summer Mediterranean
The Mediterranean diet is loaded with fresh vegetables. Today I had eggplant, yelllow squash, onions, garlic, red, yellow and green peppers and frozen Fordhook lima beans. I threw them in frozen. Chopped a lot of fresh parsly, added salt, pepper and a generous amount of olive oil. Link to method and ingredients here, but use…
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GrecoSoCo Greens, Beans & Middlins
Middlins? Yes, middlins, the broken pieces of rice collected during the processing of Carolina Gold Rice. My friends at Marsh Hen Mill in Edisto, South Carolina, like to work backwards in a way that preserves tradition and a simpler way of processing beans and grains, cornmeal, grits and rice. I love these guys! Yes, it’s a…
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the digital alias of Despina Panagakos Yeargin
