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Grilled Peach Melba [Recipe]

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I was excited to get peaches in my CSA so that I could make a classic recipe that brings back memories of my childhood. My family used to love making peach melba with vanilla ice cream and raspberry sauce. Back then, we used canned peaches, but now adult-me knows there are more gourmet variations of fruit. One of these is grilled fruit,…
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Turkey Collard Green Roll-ups [Recipe]

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I’m enjoying the challenge every week of trying to come up with new recipes that use my CSA items. I’ve been getting some repeat vegetables, which gives me even more opportunities to keep experimenting. This week the delivery had: Collard Greens Celery Eggplant Sweet Corn Red Tomatoes Heirloom Tomatoes Sweet Peppers Cucumbers Zucchini Missing! NY White Garlic Herb of the Week:…
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[Recipe] Vegetarian Stuffed 8-Ball Zucchini

Fooducation· Recipes

Another week, another vegetable delivery from the country to the city. Last week we got: Chard Parsnips 8-Ball Zucchini Sweet Peppers & wax peppers Cucumbers & Lemon Cucumbers BiColor Sweet Corn Heirloom Tomatoes, Red Tomatoes, Cherry Tomatoes NY White Garlic Blackberries Sweet Basil And my prized item of this bunch was this monster: This massive zucchini is called an “8-Ball” zucchini, although mine…
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Veggie Files: Baked Italian Zoodles [Recipe]

Fooducation· Recipes

It’s veggie time again! And if you follow me on Instagram you probably get my weekly veggie pun – I can never resist a good food joke. This week’s caption: “I’m kinda a big Dill”. Get it!? In the delivery this week: Tomatoes and Cucumbers which made for a nice Greek salad for lunch, along with some basil. Corn on the Cob also…
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Grilled Salmon with Lemon Basil Dressing [Recipe]

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As part of my most recent CSA, I received swiss chard and lemon basil. Since I had a lot of greens to go through in my fridge, I thought I’d sauté the chard and pair it with some healthy grilled salmon. I then used all of the lemon basil in a lemon basil vinaigrette to use on salads, and to top my…
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