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Easy 5-Ingredient Black Bean Salad

5-Ingredient Black Bean Salad Who says easy needs to be boring? I’ve been making this 5-ingredient black bean salad for years. I’ve taken it to picnics, potlucks, and family reunions (back when we had picnics and potlucks and family reunions). It’s healthy, travels well, adds …

Dairy-free, Easy, Egg-free, Gluten-free, Healthy Choice, Legumes & Lentils, Recipes, Salad, Side Dish, Vegan, Vegetarian

Black Bean, Corn & Barley Salad

So, Eric Idle came to dinner and was seated beside me. We were going to entertain the other guests with a ripping rendition of The Dead Parrot skit. Only I was so busy thinking up clever tweets I forgot my lines. So I went upstairs to …

Autumn, Dairy-free, Egg-free, Healthy Choice, Legumes & Lentils, Original, Pasta & Grains, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Side Dish, Summer, Vegan, Vegetarian

Roasted Golden Beet Salad with Tarragon Dressing

Gold is the new red. At least for me when it comes to beets. In the past I have been more than a little vocal about my dislike of your garden variety red beets. I want to like them. Really. They have a gorgeous ruby …

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The Canadian Food Experience: English Cucumbers

Living in Ontario has many advantages. Spring brings maple syrup, fiddleheads, ramps, rhubarb and garlic scapes. Summer provides back-to-back crops of fruits and vegetables starting with seed-studded strawberries and ending with juicy, sweet peaches. Good luck keeping up with all Autumn provides — apples, beets, …

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Roasted Cauliflower, Pomegranate & Hazelnut Salad

This roasted cauliflower salad serves as my reminder that good recipes are flexible. Good recipes invite experimentation. They serve as helpful guidelines, not rigid rules. With titles like “The Best This” or “The Ultimate That” it’s easy to forget no one recipe has a monopoly …

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Pampered

If I come back as a vegetable I want to be kale. Ruffly, versatile, pretty kale. Not only would I be my favourite colour (green), I’d finally have unstoppable curls — something I can’t achieve even with hot rollers and a perm. But I’d be …

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Peach, Tomato Salad with Bocconcini

When a spring frost destroyed much of the tender fruit crops in Ontario, I was afraid I wouldn’t see a local peach this year, let alone one that delivered a true peachy taste. Fortunately, I was wrong. While the size of the crop may …

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Fennel Salad with Golden Beets and Apples

[box type=”info” style=”rounded” border=”full”] Update: Sorry. The contest is closed. However, the fennel salad recipe remains open to anyone willing to give it a try. [/box] As one of the world’s most gullible people, I hate April Fool’s Day. Apparently watching me scramble for the binoculars …

Egg-free, Gluten-free, Recipes, Salad, Savory, Summer, Vegetables, Vegetarian

Raw Sweet Potato Salad

Sweet potatoes are confusing. People call them yams, but they’re not. Even though you’re far more likely to encounter a sweet potato than a yam here in North America, I think we embrace the term “yam” because it’s more fun to say. Weighing in at …

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