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What if you could have one amazing recipe, and make cakes? This one-bowl, spiced sweet potato cake can be baked in three different pans, making it just the right cake for more than one occasion.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: One Recipe, Three Cakes

What if you could have one amazing recipe, and make three different cakes… like a “choose your own adventure” ...

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Do Your Scallops Taste Soapy? Here’s Why

Scallops are a favorite seafood for many, prized for their tender texture and delicate sweetness. But if you’ve ever ...

Grilled Sweet Potatoes with Salted Peanuts & Orange Miso Vinaigrette

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5 Recipes for Sweet Potato Season

Sweet Potatoes are at their sweetest and best during harvest season, which runs late August to October. Of course ...

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Apples are the Gateway to Fall

Anyone who has ever been apple picking knows, the best time for fresh apples is in the early fall. Of course, apples are available year-round ...

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Overnight Oats Are the Key to Busy Mornings

Overnight oats take mere minutes to put together the night before, and offers so much in return. Should you need any convincing, here’s a shortlist ...

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What’s the Best Apple for Making Applesauce?

There are things that simply taste better when they’re homemade – applesauce falls firmly into that category. Warm from the stovetop with a scoop of ...

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5 Days, 5 Ways… How to Build a Better “On-the-Go” Lunch

Grab your lunch tote and get ready to liven up your midday meal! Whether you regularly eat at your desk, are packing for the beach ...

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Fresh Ideas for the Grill: 5 Recipes to Excite

When the sun shines bright and temperatures are pleasant, it’s hard not to feel the pull of the outdoors. We all want to spend more ...

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Fast & Healthy Pastas for Busy Weeks

I ran into a good friend last week and we started talking about what to make for dinner. She is a busy single parent of ...

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Easy Pumpkin Black Bean Soup

This mostly pantry ingredient soup is super simple for a busy weeknight. Pair it with a grilled cheese or quesadilla, or a green salad for ...

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Salted Butter Caramel Apple Sundaes

Think of this like a sundae in reverse. The apples are cooked in sugar on the stovetop until the sugar begins to darken, then cream ...

Pumpkin Snacking Bars

Martha’s pumpkin squares are good, but mine pack something extra – almost twice the pumpkin. Admittedly, it was an accident the first time I made ...

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An Essential Guide for Successful Ingredient Substitutions

You come across a recipe for an easy, amazing looking bowl of ramen, but your daughter is vegetarian. Can you still make it? Will vegetable ...

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Go Beyond the Guac: Tasty Ways to Eat Avocados

If avocados aren’t a staple in your kitchen, they should be. Their versatile, rich flesh can play myriad roles in daily cooking, not to mention ...

What’s the Best Apple for Making Applesauce?

There are things that simply taste better when they’re homemade – applesauce falls firmly into that category. Warm from the stovetop with a scoop of

Bake Like a Pro – Tips for Success Everytime

Baking can be nerve-wracking. I’ve been doing it a long time, and still have those moments of peering through the oven door to watch batter

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Simple Ways to Cut Down on Food Waste

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How to Put Together an Outstanding Cheese Platter

Cheese boards are the ultimate all-purpose appetizer: Minimal effort, big on flavor, and always a crowd-pleaser. Sure, anyone can toss a few hunks of cheese

8 Great Easter Recipes

I will never outgrow the excitement of an overstuffed basket of chocolate bunnies and candy eggs greeting me on Easter morning… Though of course what

New Recipes that Make the Most of Fall Vegetables

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Choose Your Own Adventure: One Recipe, Three Cakes

Do Your Scallops Taste Soapy? Here’s Why

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Apples are the Gateway to Fall

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What’s the Best Apple for Making Applesauce?

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