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Archives for February 2017

Super Simple Salad Dressing

February 27, 2017 By msmart 1 Comment

Super simple salad dressing

There’s a simple way to amp up your dinner game: Make your own salad dressing. You heard me, right? Just checking. It takes five minutes to make a super simple salad dressing, which uses only four ingredients that you should have stocked in your pantry or fridge. The return on flavor, not to mention the…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Salad Dressings, Salads, Uncategorised Tagged With: dairy-free, easy dinner, easy family meals, gluten-free, grain-free, healthy family meals, homemade salad dressing, salad, super simple salad dressing, vegan, vegetarian, vinaigrette, weeknight

Weeknight Dinners: February 27-March 3

February 27, 2017 By msmart Leave a Comment

Our menus have been very “clean” lately, because we aren’t cooking with wheat, soy, corn, dairy or beef (and a long list of other items). I don’t want my family to really notice a huge change in our dinner routine, so I’ve been scouring the internet for flavorful, allergy-free family meals. I’ve also been tweaking some of our family…

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Filed Under: Uncategorised, Weekly Meal Plans Tagged With: allergy-free, dairy-free, dinner plan, family meals, gluten-free, meal plan, quick and easy meals, weekly meal plan, weeknight, wheat-free

Weeknight Dinners: February 20-25, 2017

February 21, 2017 By msmart Leave a Comment

It’s a short week, which means a shorter weekly meal plan for some of you. If you can’t quite pull yourself out of the relaxation after the long weekend, just brainstorm three easy meals for mid-week. Friday can either be a pantry meal, like spaghetti and Rao’s marinara, or a big pot of “clean out the crisper”…

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Filed Under: Uncategorised, Weekly Meal Plans Tagged With: 15-minute meals, easy meals, family dinner, family meals, meal plan, meal plans, quick and easy meals, weeknight, weeknight meals

Chèvre with Herb and Garlic Olive Oil

February 14, 2017 By msmart 1 Comment

Goat cheese is one of those foods that takes me back to living in San Francisco in the late 90s (wow…that makes me sound old!). Cheese makers like Laura Chenel were gaining cult status, and chèvre was front and center thanks to restaurants like Chez Panisse. It would garnish just about everything: soups, simple green salads and pizzas….

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Appetizers and Snacks, Uncategorised Tagged With: appetizer, cheese, chèvre, goat cheese

Weeknight Dinners: February 12-17, 2017

February 13, 2017 By msmart Leave a Comment

SUNDAY We had one of our old favorites, spatchcocked chicken with shallots, that cooks in about 35 minutes. Paired with sautéed greens and Serious Eats’ crispy roasted potatoes, it was a winner, winner chicken dinner.   MONDAY I’m trying Bon Appetit’s method for oven risotto. Sunday night we used up all our kale (and collards and spinach) in…

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Filed Under: Uncategorised, Weekly Meal Plans Tagged With: meal plan

Gluten-Free and Nut-Free Granola

February 9, 2017 By msmart 1 Comment

This tasty gluten-free and nut-free granola (and egg-free and dairy-free) is super simple to put together. It’s full of flavor and sweetness from vanilla, maple syrup, raw honey and cinnamon. Hemp hearts add protein, and gluten-free oats, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds add fiber and crunch. It’s adaptable — if you can eat nuts, add slivered almonds, walnuts or…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Appetizers and Snacks, Breakfast and Brunch, Dairy-Free, Gluten-free/Gluten-free adaptable Tagged With: breakfast, dairy-free, egg-free, gluten-free, granola, nut-free

Warm Spiced Olives

February 7, 2017 By msmart 1 Comment

Warm Marinated Olives I have a salt tooth. And a sweet tooth. Which is the problem, but we won’t get into that. To satisfy that salt craving, there’s nothing like the briny, pungent and flavorful pop of warm spiced olives. I developed a serious olive habit in college during a semester abroad in Athens, studying…

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Appetizers and Snacks, Mediterranean Tagged With: appetizer, cheese board, olives

Weeknight Dinners: February 6-10, 2017

February 6, 2017 By msmart Leave a Comment

  This weekend went by way too fast, and it seems like the whole month of February will be gone in the blink of an eye. This is the time of year that starts to feel like an all-out sprint. Today we made a mad dash for new shoes, lacrosse gear, class party treats and new ingredients for…

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Marcia Smart is a cooking instructor, recipe developer and food writer who wants to help you make good, simple meals for your family and friends. She craves food that's seasonal and delicious and wants to share it with you. A California girl living in a Houston world with her husband and three children.

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