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Vegan Nut-Free Coconut Oil Kale Pesto
Coming soon to a spicy quinoa bowl near you: nut-free coconut oil kale pesto. If you’re a kale and coconut oil fanatic, there’s no doubt this pesto will be your new jam. I, on the other hand, wasn’t...
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Tomato and Olive Potato Gratin
All I could think about while assembling this gratin is that I totally missed the boat on vegan Fourth of July options. I mean look at it! Is this not the most patriotic-looking potato gratin you’ve...
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Hummus Lentil Salad Lettuce Wraps
Here’s how weekly meal planning often starts for me: I pick up my recipe notebook and a pen and plop myself in front of the fridge, making a detailed list of the soon-to-spoil items I need to use...
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Cheddar Sweet Corn Pie
I’m at it again with the cheesy pie! So, remember the spaghetti squash pie from last fall? My most popular blog post to date for reasons that I can’t grasp completely? I’m taking a shot in the dark,...
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How to Make Homemade Coconut Milk
Homemade coconut milk is one of those things, like basic oatmeal, whose lack of consistent recipes online frustrates me. All I want is a simple formula that’s easy to make, not too messy, and the...
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Quick Veggie Curry
Last week, I made a big batch of chocolate baby shower cupcakes (see below) with fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting. This week, ant-pocalypse descended upon my kitchen. What does that have to do with...
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Spicy Italian Broccoli Quinoa Bowl
Whether you’re going back to school or not (I am not), fall always seems like such a good time for fresh starts. Maybe even better than new year’s, since it doesn’t catch us in the midst of holiday...
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Portable Picnic Menus
Labor Day is fast approaching, so although it seems untimely to present you with picnic recipes at the onset of fall, hopefully you plan on savoring the last of summer’s sticky heat with a picnic. Or,...
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Nut-Free Vegan Sour Cream
Let’s get one thing straight: I’m not quitting sour cream. The stuff is a commodity in our fridge, which isn’t surprising considering my affinity for Mexican food. I love to throw a dollop onto tacos,...
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Mexican Kale Salad
No. More. Cheese. Said no one ever? Actually, said me yesterday. I’m in Minnesota visiting my parents and so many wedding vendors right now for two long weeks. That allows me plenty of time to...
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Quick Chunky Tomato Sauce
If you’ve been following NCK since the beginning, you know I like to do things the hard way. For instance, last summer I spent almost four hours preparing and simmering mushroom and red wine marinara...
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Gluten Free Eggplant Parm Bake
Can you name the states in the tri-state area? Until about a year after I moved to Connecticut, I still ignored maps and couldn’t tell you that Jersey and New York completed the trifecta. Had you...
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Zucchini Spaghetti with Blistered Olives
It’s possible I will never eat another plain olive again. Buttery roasted zucchini noodle pasta and creamy goat cheese tomato sauce are both good and fine and completely scrumptious, but oven baked...
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White Bean Pesto Pasta Bake
This is gonna be good. My exact thought as I succumbed to the garlicky lure and opened the oven to peek, with 4 minutes and 43 seconds to go until I could pull this white bean pesto pasta bake from the...
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Butternut Squash Tostadas
Store bought tostadas kind of saved me this week. Months ago, I saw the episode of Triple D featuring Taco Bus and their wildly popular butternut squash tostadas. Unfortunately, I don’t live close to...
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Garlic Mushroom Rosé Risotto
Sometimes I do silly things like swear off wine for a month. Not necessarily a bad resolution in itself. Wine consumption in the soon-to-be Schatteman household tends to go in cycles: a week or two...
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Risotto Cakes Eggs Florentine
So, you know that rosé risotto I just made? And then that mysterious frying pan on Instagram? Today they’re combining in the tastiest brunch recipe I could think up, risotto cakes eggs florentine!...
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Garlic Spinach Nachos and Easy Refried Beans
There is a noticeable shortage of decent, or even satisfactory, Mexican or Tex-Mex around these parts. From what I hear and read, the issue extends to most of the Northeast. When I do crave Mexican,...
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Healthy Mushroom Enchiladas
Enchiladas are one of the least photogenic foods I’ve encountered. Without fail, my spatula is too narrow to transfer them in one piece to the plate, and my grand plans of perfectly rolled enchilada...
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Marinated Portobello California Burger
Welcome to my weird hippie over-the-top California veggie burger. What is a California burger? A quick Google search will tell you…a lot of different things. The only common thread I can decipher is...
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