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Roasted Butternut Squash

Winter is a time for squash. I don’t care for the stringy-ness of acorn squash as much, but the sweet flavor of butternut squash is to die for. It is so easy to make and needs almost no preparation (just a long baking time).
1 butternut squash – any size
3 tbsp olive oil
salt and [...]

Slow Cooker Chunky Applesauce

Nothing says “fall” like the smell of baking things with apples. Apple pie, apple crisp, apple compote, anything. The bad news is that they are all full of fat and sugar, you just can’t go right with flaky pie crust or cripsy oatmeal topping. But you CAN go right with homemade spicy [...]

Warm Black Bean and Corn Salad (with Honey-Lime Salmon)

This is a tasty, sweet and spicy, soft and crunchy warm salad. I’m not a huge fan of salmon but this would be excellent alongside chicken made in the same honey-lime marinade….someone pointed me to this recipe in a Rachael Ray cookbook, and I am always up for new salads and sides.
The red pepper [...]

Herbed Roasted Potatoes

One of the easiest (though with the baking time not necessarily the quickest) side dishes one can come up with is roasted potatoes. Particularly if you use new potatoes, or small creamers – they usually have few eyes and imperfections and not a lot of dirt to be scrubbed, so they can just be [...]