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Beef Gyro Meatballs with Tzatziki

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on May 1, 2012

in beef, simple recipe, South Beach Diet

When a theme gets stuck in my head, it gets stuck there for quite some time. Some of you may remember the chili phase of 2010. Some may also remember the casserole days, the burger days, and even more recently, the cupcake days. With our theme of “Green or Greece” for our last Traveling Pans [...]

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Brussels Sprouts Afelia

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 20, 2012

in family, family recipe, simple recipe, vegetables, vegetarian

Anyone who’s ever dined at a restaurant with my family and I has experienced the fine art that is “ingredient and recipe figuring outing”. My mom and I are particularly intense at this, and have been able to successfully identify some of the most obscure ingredients in some of the most delicious foods. Think the [...]

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Artisan Pesto Pizza

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 15, 2012

in Baking, bread, Italian, pizza, simple recipe, vegetables, vegetarian

I’m going to ask you to take a ride in my wayback machine today. Think back to 2002, if you can. You probably had never heard the word “chipotle” before. Then, out of nowhere, a delightful chain of burrito restaurants from Denver popped up all over the country, and next thing we know, everything is [...]

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The Capitol Lamb and Plum Stew

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on April 3, 2012

in simple recipe, vegetables

I have been a book nerd for as long as I can remember. I’m told that there was one day where I picked up a book I’d had read to me before and read it on my own. No one could believe that I was reading because I was all of three years old, but [...]

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Whole Wheat Cinnamon Pinwheel Bread

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 4, 2012

in Baking, bread, family, simple recipe

Eight years ago today, on a cold and rainy day, I took the first non-sick sick day at my first teaching job for a very good reason: my mom was getting married! A bouquet of white tulips, a short and sweet ceremony, and a few photos later, my mom and David were married! The group [...]

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Stacked

by Mara @ What's For Dinner? on March 2, 2012

in simple recipe

I’m not feeling very loquacious today… it’s been one of those weeks. I made these, in a double recipe. Well, not exactly. I used almost equal amounts wheat and oat flour, and they were wonderful, mostly because of these: Farm-fresh eggs from a coworker who keeps chickens. Drippy eggs are in my future… Back to [...]

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