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Roasted Butternut Squash & Blood Orange Salad With A Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette

Roasted Butternut Squash & Blood Orange Salad With A Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette
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A spinach salad topped with oven roasted, tender bite sized pieces of caramelized butternut squash. Add to that creamy diced avocado pieces, sweet juicy slices of blood orange, tangy tasting goat cheese and drizzled with a Toasted Pecan Vinaigrette. Butternut squash is so versatile that it pairs with just about anything you’re cooking up for
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Arugula & Roasted Root Vegetable Salad

Arugula & Roasted Root Vegetable Salad
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Arugula is a leafy green vegetable most often used in salads. It has a slightly nutty flavor and is often described as being peppery. The leafy green is a member of the Brassicaceae family, which includes broccoli, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage. Read More Here About What Is Arugula & How To Use It The flavor
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Moroccan Orange & Radish Salad With Cinnamon Vinaigrette

Moroccan Orange & Radish Salad With Cinnamon Vinaigrette
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A bold refreshing salad that includes sweet juicy oranges, and crisp red radishes, baby spinach and sliced almonds tossed with a light tasting cinnamon vinaigrette. It’s a simple salad, but it’s equally unique, fresh and so delicious. This salad is good eating on its own, or as a lunch or dinner entree with the addition
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Leafy Greens With Oranges Strawberries & Vanilla Vinaigrette

Leafy Greens With Oranges Strawberries & Vanilla Vinaigrette
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This field greens salad is fresh and flavorful with sweet blood oranges, Cara Cara orange, strawberries, toasted pecans and served with a light vanilla-accented vinaigrette. This salad is a perfect starter, but it also makes a fantastic entree topped with sliced grilled chicken or steak. The salad recipe calls for a 6 ounce package of
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Salad Stuffed Romaine Lettuce Leaves

Salad Stuffed Romaine Lettuce Leaves
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Romaine lettuce is slightly bitter in taste, though not unpleasantly strong. When you bite into the lettuce leaf, you can note how robust it is with a unique fresh crispy taste that differentiates it from other lettuce. Not very sweet tasting, and surely not as “grassy” tasting as spinach. Each individual leaf has a thick
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Caldo de Res – Mexican Beef Stew

Caldo de Res – Mexican Beef Stew
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Caldo de res is a Mexican beef stew that’s extremely hearty and satisfying. A hearty comfort stew cooked with beef and garden vegetables. The key to making this extraordinary stew is adding the vegetables at the right time, so they don’t turn to mush. This stew is versatile when it comes to vegetables. Besides carrots
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Fresh Basil Raspberry & Goat Cheese Salad

Fresh Basil Raspberry & Goat Cheese Salad
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The combination of juicy raspberries, savory fennel, creamy goat cheese, sweet and savory taste of basil with peppery and minty undertones, all topped on a bed of leafy greens and dressed with a sweet raw honey vinaigrette. Goat cheese pairs wonderfully with fresh fruit. And in this salad, little round balls of cheese are coated
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French Potato Salad With A Dijon Vinaigrette & Fines Herbes

French Potato Salad With A Dijon Vinaigrette & Fines Herbes
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Fines herbes are a combination of herbs that are a mainstay of French cuisine. The herbs are comprised of finely chopped parsley, chives, tarragon, and chervil. Fresh herbs and a vinaigrette are the characteristic of this French potato salad. and when plated is not only pleasing to the eye, but as well to the palate.
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Broccoli Grapes & Bacon Salad

Broccoli Grapes & Bacon Salad
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A deliciously yummy easy broccoli salad recipe made with red grapes, toasted sweet coconut, sunflower seeds and crumbled bacon. A delicious salad that is full of flavor and texture. As the broccoli is firm and crunchy with a mild herbaceous and earthy or grassy flavor with just a hint of bitterness. But that grassy and
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Pumpkin Chorizo Soup

Pumpkin Chorizo Soup
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Most soups with texture and consistency are filling and robust. And this savory but slightly spicy Pumpkin Chorizo Soup is no exception. This warming but satisfying Pumpkin Chorizo Soup is inspired by the Mexican soup- “Sopa de Calabaza.” Using canned pumpkin puree greatly reduces your cooking time and effectively turns this dish into a 30-minute
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