Appetizers | Recipes | Soups
Amuse Bouche – Chilled Cucumber Dill Soup
Chilled cucumber dill soup with green onions, chicken broth and cream blended together and served in shot glasses over ice. An easy, gourmet Amuse Bouche.
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Disney Inspired Grapefruit Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
A Hollywood Brown Derby (located at Disney World's Hollywood Studios) favorite, this luscious cake was on the menu at the original Hollywood, California, restaurant.I recommend making this cake over 2 days (although you can certainly make it in 1). Spreading the work over 2 days makes cutting the cake easier and life in general…
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Crispy Salt-and-Vinegar Smashed Potatoes
The potatoes are inspired by the "chips" (deep-fried potato wedges) served in English pubs that are salted and sprinkled with malt vinegar. To make these, baby Yukon Gold potatoes are boiled in salted water with vinegar until soft, tossed in melted ghee, smashed flat, and baked at high heat until crisp-then seasoned with additional salt…
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Skillet Cornbread
There are many ways to make cornbread, but the classic method – at least, in the South – involves a cast-iron skillet. Unlike sweet and cakey Northern versions that are baked in a square pan and are sometimes better suited to the dessert table, Southern cornbread contains neither sugar nor flour, so it has…
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Easy Mexican Chicken and Beans
Turn this dish into a weeknight fiesta! Serve with flour tortillas, sour cream, salsa, black olives and green chilies and let everyone make their own wrap.
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Chinese Chicken and Bok Choy Soup
Hands down, the quickest and easiest leftover makeover is soup. Just chop up leftover cooked protein, combine it with broth and chopped vegetables, and voila: dinner is served! This recipe reminds me of my mom's hearty chicken soup, filled with Asian greens, shitake mushrooms, and diced chicken. Remember: Chicken broth will vary in salt content,…
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Asian Beef Zoodle Soup
This Whole30 take on Vietnamese pho subs in zucchini noodles for the classic rice noodles but features the same flavorful ginger-garlic beef broth and toppings – Thai basil, cilantro, sliced green onion, jalapeno, and lime wedges – so you can customize it to your taste.
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Caramelized Coconut Chips
Thursday nights in the Joulwan household, circa the 1980s, were "popcorn night." In sixth grade, I wrote an ode to popcorn, such was my devotion to the salty snack. Even though it's not on the paleo-approved menu, I still think of popcorn as my favorite food. These cinnamon-caramelized coconut chips do not taste like popcorn,…
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Turkish Chopped Salad
This is one of those recipes that makes everyone think you're a genius because it tastes so good (while inside you know the real secret: lots of chopping). Bright and crunchy, it's ridiculously healthy – without tasting like it's ridiculously healthy – and it's friendly and eager to please. Cut the recipe in half…