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 Something I put together MacGyver-style with odds and ends from the pantry and fridge: pasta salad with salmon, chickpeas, and lime vinaigrette. The flavors were bright and the textures of the al dente pasta, crunch vegetables, meaty chunks of salmon, and bean-y chickpeas made this really enjoyable to eat.


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It's very rare I cook anything with seafood, but there was a rather
broad hint from a certain group of lasses that crab stuffed mushrooms
might be welcome.

Crab stuffed mushrooms


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The beginning of the month sucks. My rent, car payment, etc. are always due at the same time. I only have about $7.00 to my name until I get paid again, so I’ve not been able to do any grocery shopping this weekend. I’ve basically been scrounging through my pantry and trying to make healthy, tasty meals for myself. It’s depressing to be broke, but ( Read more... )

Hello:)

This is my first time posting here,I hope that this post is food porn worthy enough!

Parmesan crusted salmon and Pandoras pasta salad


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I was attempting to use up some stuff that needed to be used, and this is what I came up with;


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Today was really warm...... so grocery shopping consisted of allot of fruit and salad stuff and decided I wanted to make a Pasta Salad. Since I need to stay away from gluten, I bought some good rice pasta and threw together this yummy thing and ate it on the back porch over looking a lazy hot early evening! The thing I love about making something ( Read more... )

We're not huge fans of pasta salads that are creamy and all mayonnaise-y, which means we don't have pasta salad a bunch around here. Until we came across a lovely pasta salad recipe in the April/May 2005 issue of Cook's Country. It's a tangy, refreshing gazpacho flavored pasta salad and it's delicious and wonderful and here it is:


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I posted this recipe last week on my biog, but I'm making it again cause good god I can't get it out of my head.

This time I actually had the 'grape tomatoes' like in the picture. I had to get rid of some cauliflower, so I used that instead of the broccoli... but I prefer the broccoli.

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