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Recipe: Polenta Citrus Cake with Honey-citrus Syrup
You can opt not to use the honey syrup, but it adds a lovely tart-sweetness that makes a huge difference. The cake itself is dense (in a...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Dec 31, 20182 min read
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Recipe: Date-filled Challah
This is the bread we make for breakfast for Christmas every year. The best thing about it? I can make it the weekend before, stick it in...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Dec 17, 20183 min read
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Recipe: Bowls! It's what's for dinner
Dressing/sauce for (insert bowl here) It’s a new/old thing, right? This Bowl of whatever for dinner fad? This dressing is a tasty...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Dec 11, 20181 min read
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Recipe: Potato Pizza
I know what you’re going to say: pizza without cheese is NOT pizza. But if you look at the basic definition of ‘pizza’ to be ‘a flat...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Dec 4, 20184 min read
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Recipe: Pumpkin Coconut Cake
Sometimes you just need a good basic cake, right? Sometimes the day just calls for it, or you get the late-afternoon email for the next...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Nov 27, 20182 min read
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Recipe: Cranberry chutney
This is, by far, our favorite accompaniment to turkey, but it works great with pretty much any meat. It is sweet enough, but not too...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Nov 19, 20181 min read
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Recipe: Best Roast Potatoes Ever
Sometimes, you happen across a favorite dish and you just can’t keep it to yourself. This one is Thanksgiving good. Granted, I didn’t...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Nov 12, 20182 min read
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Hangry ... and what to do about it
You know what I am talking about. It’s been a long long day, you forgot to finish your bottle of water at work, you forgot to bring your...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Nov 7, 20184 min read
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Recipe: Date Balls
I found this recipe online (love Penzeys.com for their spices and their unique recipes), and immediately adapted it. The recipe looked...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Nov 5, 20182 min read
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Recipe: Oatcakes
These are not actually cakes. They're sort of a cross between a cookie, a cracker, and maybe a biscuit - a small, crunchy, nubbly thing...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 29, 20182 min read
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No more excuses: Get out of your own way
Now is the time. Excuses stop here. You have made a decision and this time REALLY you are going to go on a diet and lose some weight. ...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 25, 20188 min read
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Recipe: Pumpkin Bread
Sometimes it’s just a good thing to jump on the pumpkin bandwagon. It’s the season, anyway, so why not? Pumpkin-based foods should be...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 22, 20182 min read
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Pizza!
First, a couple notes about flour. Using whole wheat flour in your recipes is a great way to up the fiber and nutrient content of your...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 15, 20184 min read
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Vitamins: Villains or vital?
Some believe that vitamins are literally the best thing since sliced bread, and that the best thing you can do for yourself -besides get...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 11, 20185 min read
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Recipe: Curry with lots o’ veggies
As much as I want to always be sharing original (or at least my take on someone else’s original) recipes with you ... we’ve hit a...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 9, 20181 min read
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Recipe: Thai Quinoa salad
Nutritious, colorful, and tasty too? Yep, this salad hits all of the right notes. Plus, you can make it on Sunday and then enjoy it for...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Oct 1, 20182 min read
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Fad diets: the good, the bad the ugly
A fad diet or diet cult is a diet that promises weight loss or other health advantages, such as longer life, and usually relies on...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Sep 26, 201811 min read
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Recipe: Creamy Eggplant dip with tahini and yogurt
This is not baba ganoush. This is not hummus. It’s not really a cross between the two, either. It’s just a lovely mostly-hands-off dip...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Sep 17, 20182 min read
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Recipe: Chocolate banana muffins
Chocolate Banana Muffins Yield: 24 mini muffins Lowfat, and good for you! Chocolate for breakfast is good any day! I used frozen...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Sep 10, 20182 min read
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Recipe: Cheesy drop biscuits
The nice thing about a quick bread is that you can get it on the table fairly quickly. In our house, if you add cheese to the bread, it...
Susie Csorsz Brown
Sep 3, 20182 min read
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