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Prosperity Salad

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I created this salad because I desperately needed something crunchy, green-ish and vegetable based after the holiday onslaught. How many pies have I made in the last 6 weeks? Don’t ask.

Suffice to say, I’m looking forward to a fresh start, food wise. And my mind has turned to salads. It is like tasty, …click to continue Prosperity Salad

Individual Chicken Pot Pies

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I’d be fibbing if I didn’t admit that the spiritual predecessor of these pies is Rebecca Rather’s “All Sold Out Chicken Pot Pies from her exceptional The Pastry Queen.” At this point, they don’t really match up, but hers was the first recipe that made me think that I could …click to continue Individual Chicken Pot Pies

Cream of Carrot Soup

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I was drawn to this recipe, because it doesn’t try to gild the lily, so to speak. I rather like the way carrots taste, sweet or not. This carrot soup is notably lacking excess sweeteners, and boasts one mere teaspoon of sugar. The result, unless you have very sweet carrots to start with, is …click to continue Cream of Carrot Soup

Salad Bar Soup

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The name of this soup strikes me as particularly hokey. However, salad bar soup is precisely what this is. I was in Whole Foods on a strategic apple research sortie, which I had to squeeze in before the all out fun and chaos of helping lead a 36 girl Brownie troop through a “meeting.” …click to continue Salad Bar Soup

Happy Salad

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This salad is popularly referred to as detox salad…but since that implies that one is in an unhealthy state to begin with and that one would need this salad to get out of a bad place, I have renamed it Happy Salad. Sorry. It just looked sad when it was called detox salad. And …click to continue Happy Salad

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