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  • Food, Travel, Fitness, & Meditation Blog

    Restaurant Style Salsa

    April 25, 2017 /

    Summer’s coming fast, and if that doesn’t conjure visions of fresh salsa and Negro Modelo, then you need to do some soul-searching.  Where’s your head at?  Get in the game. I want to find myself this weekend (and every weekend for the next six months) sitting on a patio somewhere imbibing something cold and refreshing and possibly dipping some corn chips into a delicious pool of fire-roasted tomatoes combined with fresh onions, and cilantro, grown in someone’s garden or at least picked up from the Farmer’s Market. Mexican food of all kinds is at the very top on my list of favorites, and I especially love going to Mexican restaurants where…

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    Kale and Brussels Sprouts Salad with Hot Honey Mustard Vinaigrette

    April 11, 2017 /

    Occasionally it dawns on me that I haven’t eaten anything green in way too long, and I feel an urge to overcompensate.  I think this is a familiar feeling for most people.  My husband’s reaction is to open up the container of raw spinach and just start shoving handfuls into his mouth.  “Taking his medicine,” I believe is how he describes it.  Well, that makes it seem like a penance, and I love food too much to waste any of my lifetime meals on something I don’t want to eat.  So I’m going to go the extra mile (when I can) and make a salad like this one.  This is…

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