Roasted Beet Salad w/ Studio 5

Using your garden for fresh produce and beautiful meals all season long is something I get so excited about. Beets are ready right now to enjoy. Here’s a great little recipe that looks fancy, gourmet, but super easy to make. If you don’t have a garden, grab some beets the next time you are at…

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Olympic inspiration: Japanese Savory Pancakes

With the Tokyo Olympics just starting, why not share this great vegetable based recipe for all of us to make? Good. I’m glad we agree. I was fortunate enough to spend some time, however brief, in Japan when I was 12. I will never forget the great time I had. The amazing people, the amazing…

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Garden Minestrone Soup

Eating healthy does not mean boring or tasteless. It means delicious and colorful. Seasonings, textures and layers of flavors are your friend. This recipe is from Fueled with Core 7 Fitness. I wrote it. During the first week of the program you are doing a cleanse, but it’s an eating cleanse. And eating amazing vegetables…

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Thanksgiving Buddha Bowl

Raise your hand if you need a new recipe to use with your Thanksgiving leftovers? I do. We’ve all made a turkey casserole, turkey chowder, turkey and dumplings, turkey sandwiches. Let’s do something NEW, something DIFFERENT, something HEALTHY. A Thanksgiving Buddha Bowl. What you’ll need: Arugula and spinach mix Seeds of change quinoa rice mixture…

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SOUP SEASON: Beef and Pierogi Stew

Here’s the thing. Beef stew is a wintertime dinner staple in our home.  BUT I wanted to make it different. So why not add a potato dumpling? Bam. New recipe created just like that. I just purchased Mrs. T’s Pierogies, because semi- handmade is my jam right now. But  make your own if you’d like.…

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Roasted Veggie & Hummus Bowl

  In my quest for healthy meals, I managed to make this one. And it was so easy, And took hardly any time at all. We love roasted veggies, and we LOVE hummus. So naturally it all worked out. I’d even add mushrooms, red peppers, zucchini, sweet onion, and more. What’s your favorite vegetable to…

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How to build a flavor profile

Layering flavors. You hear that term on all of the great cooking shows. Layering the flavors. But what does it mean? When you start to cook,  just after turning on the pan, you add oil to the pan to sear the meat, cook the vegetables, start your recipe. THIS is where the flavors can be…

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