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  • Caprese Tart

    If you like Caprese Salad or Margherita Pizza, you’ll want to try this tart! It has sliced mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil in it–yum! This summer, I’ve been wanting to make some sort of a tomato tart and I came up with the idea of making a Caprese Tart! If tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella are so good…

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  • Tomato Basil Avocado Soup

    This cool, summer soup sounded good to me because it didn’t involve any cooking, and it has been so hot these past couple of days! This is a “raw food” recipe. You may have heard about all the health benefits there are to eating raw. I’ve read a little about it, although I’m no expert…

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  • Jessica’s Crustless Spinach Quiche

    One of my favorite breakfast dishes is quiche. When I make one, it’s usually on the weekend since I’m pressed for time on weekday mornings. One of the gals at work, Jessica, shared a quiche recipe with me that she likes to make. It’s really easy and has no crust, so it’s a little lower…

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  • A Race Well Run: Olympian Eric Liddell

    Photos from Wikipedia As the 2012 Summer Olympics in London approach (July 27 to August 12), I was reminded by an article in Decision magazine of another Summer Olympics that took place years ago. It was 1924 when Eric Liddell, one of the most well-known athletes in Scotland, competed in the Olympics that summer in…

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  • Chocolate Chip Chess Bars

    I don’t make many recipes that use cake mix as an ingredient because I usually prefer making things from scratch. But I came across some different recipes for Chess Bars on the internet that use cake mix and I decided to make an exception! This 5-star recipe from SouthernFood (About.com) sounded good, and I happened to have a…

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  • Yum Plum Crumb Loaf

    Yum Plum Crumb Loaf…a little bit of a tongue-twister, but it really does describe this moist and tasty quick bread! My friend Ann, who has lots of yummy recipes and had lots of plums from her backyard plum tree, gave me a recipe for Plum Bread that a friend gave her, which I changed up…

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