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Green Smoothie: Super Greens, Pear, Banana, Grape

Green Smoothie: Super Greens, Pear, Banana, Grape

Ingredients: makes 1 large smoothie 1 cup seedless green grapes 1 pear, chopped 1 banana (essential to tame the bite of the arugula: I left it out once and did NOT like the result) 1  1/2 – 2 cups super greens 1/2 – 1 teaspoon honey (optional) Add ingredients to blender […]

November 3, 2014 × 4 comments

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Goat Cheese and Dill Omelette

Goat Cheese and Dill Omelette

I’ve made – and loved! – scrambled eggs with leftover dill before, but it wasn’t until I came across the Herb and Goat Cheese Omelet* recipe in Sweet Paul Eat & Make that it ever occurred to me to throw the dill into an omelette*! Ingredients: makes 1 how-you-like-it omelette […]

October 27, 2014 × 0 comments

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Smoothie: Sweet Banana Berry

Smoothie: Sweet Banana Berry

Ingredients: makes 2 good sized smoothies 1/4 cup water 1/2 cup apple juice 1 container vanilla Greek yogurt (about 6 oz) 2 bananas 1 1/2 cups frozen strawberries (although any berry or berry mix would probably work great) 1 1/2 – 2 teaspoons honey Blend, and enjoy 🙂

June 26, 2014 × 2 comments

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West Egg Cafe

West Egg Cafe

Taking its name from an obscure line in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, West Egg Cafe serves up a mean Southern breakfast in the Westside Provisions District 🙂 Breakfast Menu Fried Green Tomatoes with Pepper Jelly Belgian Waffle with Spiced Honey Butter Chai Latte Spinach, Mushroom, and Goat Cheese Omelette with […]

April 23, 2014 × 6 comments

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Baked Tomatoes with Feta

Baked Tomatoes with Feta

As soon as I saw this recipe on The Lipstick Giraffe blog, I knew I had to try my hand at making it sooner or later. (This is coming from a girl who used to eat tomato sandwiches like Harriet the Spy growing up :-)) Side story: My minuscule-bordering-on-microscopic hometown […]

March 10, 2014 × 2 comments

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Bacon and Cheese Cornbread Muffins

Bacon and Cheese Cornbread Muffins

These quick and easy-to-make muffins are great for breakfast on the go, paired with a smoothie for a light lunch, or as an addition to a casual brunch buffet 🙂 ————————————————————————————- Ingredients: makes about 6 muffins 1/2 cup yellow cornmeal 1/2 cup all-purpose flour 1/4 cup sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1 […]

November 8, 2013 × 0 comments

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Smoothie: Creamy Banana Apple Grape

Smoothie: Creamy Banana Apple Grape

Hub and I had the best creamy smoothies at The Umstead a couple years ago, and I lucked up on making a surprisingly similar one while I was experimenting with smoothie recipes this past weekend. Remember that scene in The Best Man when Robin (a caterer, I think) was all excited […]

June 17, 2013 × 4 comments

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Breads, Cakes, and Cookies!

Breads, Cakes, and Cookies!

DISCLAIMER: Although bits and pieces of fruits/veggies may have wandered into be present in some of these images, this is NOT a health food post. Not in the slightest 🙂 True to his word, hub bought a waffle maker and got to work making some Wafles & Dinges-like waffles. The recipe literally took […]

June 11, 2013 × 3 comments

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Creamy Grits

Creamy Grits

Grits are one of those dishes people either love or can’t stand. I believe that a good percentage of those in the latter category feel that way because they haven’t tasted good grits (the ones at Prime, for example). Like, maybe they were forced to endure bland, gritty, made-with-only-water grits, […]

May 7, 2013 × 8 comments

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Good/Better: Oatmeal

Good/Better: Oatmeal

This bowl of oatmeal looks good… … and this one looks better! Adding a bit of color (sliced apples and pumpkin seeds) and texture (sprinkled leftover ingredients: nuts, raisins, sunflower seeds) takes this dish from good to better 🙂 Get the recipe for this homemade oatmeal here.  *I’m considering adding […]

May 2, 2013 × 6 comments

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Quick Tip: Smoothie Prep

Quick Tip: Smoothie Prep

What’s not to love about smoothies? When made with quality ingredients and without tons of extra sugars, juices, and empty calories, they’re the perfect portable, quick, easy, painless, and above all yummy fruit and veggie delivery systems. Some mornings are crazy hectic though – I don’t always have time to […]

April 25, 2013 × 0 comments

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Green Smoothie: Kale, Carrot, Mango…

Green Smoothie: Kale, Carrot, Mango…

I drink lots of homemade smoothies, usually about 2/day. Some of my reasons are health-based, i.e. painlessly increasing my whole fruit/veggie intake. Some are waste-conscious, i.e. using up produce that might otherwise go bad waiting for me to eat it all. Others are borderline trifling: Quick and easy: Just toss […]

April 11, 2013 × 2 comments