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Thai Curried Ramen Bowl

April 11, 2015 By Laura 13 Comments

Thai Curried Ramen Bowl with Ground Beef and Veggies: super simple with amazing flavor!

This Thai Curried Ramen Bowl with Ground Beef, Beech Mushrooms and Veggies is easy, fast and bursting at the seams with delicious flavor. Affiliate links have been used to link to items I am discussing. Weird blogger confession: you can make this dish with rice, rice noodles, or probably just about any kind of wheat-based… 

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Filed Under: beef, coconut milk, curry, curry powder, ground beef, mushrooms, pasta, Ramen, Thai dishes, zucchini Tagged With: beech mushrooms, beef, coconut milk, ground beef, ground meat, kecap manis, mushrooms, noodles, ramen, soba, soup, stew, Thai, zucchini

Healthy Lasagna

February 9, 2015 By Laura 9 Comments

This easy Healthy Lasagna is stuffed full of lean protein and delicious vegetables for a complete one dish meal. I am not sure if this post qualifies as sponsored, so just to cover my bases: I was paid a small stipend to appear on TV discussing the lasagna that this lasagna is adapted from. This… 

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Filed Under: beef, cottage cheese, ground beef, ground turkey, Italian American, lasagne, mushrooms, pasta, tomatoes, zucchini Tagged With: casserole, cheese, ground beef, ground meat, ground turkey, healthy, Italian, lasagna, lasagne, mushrooms, pasta, tomatoes, whole grain pasta, zucchini

Italian Lemon Chicken with Zucchini and Mushrooms

February 2, 2015 By Laura 11 Comments

Gorgeous ONE POT Lemon Chicken with Zucchini and Mushrooms inspired by the Amalfi Coast!

This delicious, one pot Italian Lemon Chicken with Zucchini and Mushrooms evokes the flavors of the Amalfi Coast and will make you wish you could head to Italy! Affiliate links were used in this post to link to items I am discussing. Have I mentioned I am counting the seconds until I have some light… 

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Filed Under: chicken, Italian, mushrooms, zucchini Tagged With: Amalfi Coast, boneless chicken, chicken, chicken breasts, chicken thighs, citrus, Italian, lemon, mushrooms, southern Italian, zucchini

Moroccan Influenced Chili with Chickpeas and Minted Couscous

October 25, 2014 By Laura 1 Comment

The flavors of Morocco make for an excellent twist on traditional chili, and it can be made in a slow cooker. Affiliate links are used in this post to link to items I am discussing. Sorry for the silence! It has been a crazy week. Conferences (which means baking or cooking for the teachers, in… 

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Filed Under: beef, chickpeas, chili, couscous, dried fruit, ground beef, Moroccan, pantry cooking, sweet potato, tomatoes, zucchini Tagged With: beef, chili, couscous, crockpot, gameday, ground beef, ground meat, mint, Moroccan, prunes, ras el hanout, slow cooker, sweet potato, zucchini

Chocolate Chip Cookies with Zucchini and Almonds: Creative Cookie Exchange

August 19, 2014 By Laura 17 Comments

We are in sugar shock here right now. Not really, but close. Alex got a bee in her bonnet about the fact that she never got mousse for her birthday (I refer you to our birthday mousse tradition) but I needed to make cookies for Creative Cookie Exchange and then I also needed cake for… 

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Filed Under: almonds, blog events, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, whole grains, zucchini Tagged With: #CreativeCookieExchange, almond meal, almonds, chocolate, chocolate chip cookies, cookies, Creative Cookie Exchange, nut, summer squash, whole grain, whole wheat, zucchini

Noodles and Veggies Stir Fried in an Asian Peanut Butter Sauce

August 4, 2014 By Laura 2 Comments

Noodles and Vegetables Stir Fried with a Asian Inspired Peanut Butter Sauce

Proof that the brain is a muscle like any other: since my surgery, i.e., since all these weeks of not really using my brain and just reading guilty pleasure regency romances (yes I admit it!), I have writer’s block. Maybe not big time true writer’s block, the way some long suffering novelist might get, but… 

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Filed Under: chicken, easily made vegetarian, pasta, stir fry, zucchini Tagged With: asian, bell peppers, chicken, eggplant, noodles, pasta, peanut butter, peppers, stir fry, weeknight, zucchini

Mexican Pasta Bake with Ground Beef and Sour Cream: Using Community Cookbooks

May 29, 2014 By Laura 5 Comments

Mexican Pasta Bake with High Fiber Noodles, Cottage Cheese, Sour Cream and Ground Meat--simple and delicious!!!

Mexican Pasta Bake with Ground Beef and Sour Cream is the best of American comfort food livened up with healthy vegetables and Mexican herbs and spices. This next installment in my series using community cookbooks comes from the most wonderfully named little book: “…On The Border…By The Sea…” Cookbook Contributed by the Women of The… 

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Filed Under: beef, casseroles, Community Cookbooks, cottage cheese, ground beef, Mexican dishes, mushrooms, pasta, southwestern, zucchini Tagged With: beef, casserole, community cookbook, cottage cheese, Greek yogurt, ground beef, ground turkey, mexican, mushrooms, noodles, pasta, peppers, sour cream, southwestern, zucchini

Chorba (Moroccan Soup of Chickpeas, Vermicelli and Vegetables)

August 18, 2013 By Laura 8 Comments

Moroccan Mixed Vegetable and Garbanzo Stew with Harissa

When I chose my island for my kitchen, my builder thought I was crazy for picking such a large one. Clearly he is not a cook, because there is just no such thing as too much counter space in the kitchen. I am a cluttered person, and being able to always have counter free for… 

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Filed Under: chickpeas, easily made vegetarian, Moroccan, pasta, potatoes, soup, sweet potato, tomatoes Tagged With: angel hair, chickpeas, garbanzos, Harissa, Moroccan, noodles, North African, pasta, potatoes, soup, tomatoes, vermicelli, zucchini

#BundtaMonth: Citrus Glazed Spiced Zucchini Bundt Cake

September 26, 2012 By Laura 7 Comments

I had a late night Nigella Lawson moment with this cake. You know how, on her cooking show, she is always shown going down to the kitchen late at night to get a plateful of leftovers of whatever she made for the show that day? I try not to do that much, and I almost… 

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Filed Under: blog events, bundt cakes, cakes, cooks' tools, fall spices, Pinterest dishes, zucchini Tagged With: #BundtaMonth, bundt, BundtaMonth. bundt cake, cake, cardamom, citrus, orange, zucchini

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Hi! I’m Laura and I am a recovering history major who has re-channeled all of my passion for learning about the history of different countries to learning about their food culture. That doesn’t mean every dish on here is strictly authentic, but it does mean that even my adaptations are not undertaken lightly. My goal is to show you–by doing–that these dishes are possible in your kitchen. Including desserts because I have quite the sweet tooth! Read More…

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