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Zucchini Dip with Walnuts and Salsa Verde
Do you ever doubt food bloggers when they don’t provide a single source of inspiration for an amazing recipe? Like, how did they come up with that genius plan on their own? Or, sometimes, I know I’ve...
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Fearing’s Roasted Garlic Guacamole
The menu at Dean Fearing’s Rattlesnake Bar is a foodie’s dream, no matter what your dietary preferences are. Handmade nachos with smoked chicken and Maine lobster. Jalapeño elk corndogs. Soft pretzel...
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Fiesta Veggie Enchiladas
Let me tell you a little bit about my love affair with Tex Mex food. I think we’re in a little too deep not to talk about it, after all. Of 165 posts on Natural Comfort Kitchen, 31 of those are Tex...
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Carrot Salad with Spiced Turmeric Vinaigrette
Do these carrot salad pictures look spooky to you? Because it’s the perfect crunchy, healthy salad for Halloween and fall time! When I first threw together my carrot salad for lunch using some week...
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Siam Lentil Bowl with Thai Cashew Pesto
First things first. If anyone wants to come over and high five me, this Thai-ish lentil bowl is basically an exact, successful replica of the one that I adore from Snap Kitchen on my trips to Dallas. I...
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How to Make Enchilada Pie
Enchiladas can be pretty easy to make, with an exponentially greater payoff than the work put into them. Take my creamy enchiladas recipe, for example. Simple ingredients, half an hour, and one bowl....
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Lentils and Cheese in Spaghetti Squash
Before my body shows a single sign of illness, it predicts the future by craving tea. Maybe that sounds unassuming, but I will always ALWAYS choose coffee over tea when well. Yep, I’m one of those....
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My Favorite Butternut Squash Soup
The best things in life are… oh so simple. It’s true, I love an afternoon in the kitchen, spending hours chopping veggies for a big pot of chili or roasting tomatoes for homemade marinara. But I also...
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Cheesy Rosemary Roadside Potatoes
How’s daylight savings time treating everyone? I love the earlier morning light. It’s so natural to wake up with the sun, and I’m savoring it before the days start to close in on both ends. The nights?...
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Meatless Mulligatawny Soup
Austin: Part 1 Without even trying, my brand spankin’ new husband just summarized my whole approach to travel: “Time to head home–your favorite part of vacation!” Fellow homebodies out there…you feel...
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Bourbon Butterscotch Mini Apple Pies
After he gave me an extreme frumpy face for spending Sunday testing a dessert recipe that involves neither chocolate nor peanut butter, either Steve or I proposed the addition of butterscotch chips to...
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What We Ate in Austin
I got so excited about explaining every little detail of bourbon butterscotch mini apple pies that I completely forgot about the second half of our Austin honeymoon! If you’re like “wha???” then check...
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Green Bean Casserole Stuffed Mushrooms
Despite a liberal catering order, the stuffed mushrooms, butternut squash soup shooters, crab cakes, and caramelized apple and blue cheese phyllo cups at our wedding reception disappeared quickly....
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How to Plan and Cook a Meatless Thanksgiving Menu
In 2015, I made the jump from alternative Thanksgiving meat to (nearly) meatless Thanksgiving menu. My one concession was the crab cakes, but braised turkey legs almost got involved. To start, I...
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Artichoke Quinoa Stuffed Acorn Squash
Just when I’m struggling for what to write about, it occurred to me: we moved! Natural Comfort Kitchen has a brand new (to me) kitchen, it’s a dream come true, and I want to tell you all about it, but...
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Savory Sweet Potato Casserole with Chile
After my first bite of this so-called “over-the-top” savory sweet potato gratin, I sprung from the couch, searched for my phone, and made sure my sister knew about it ASAP. Just in case she was taking...
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Winter Kale Salad with Brown Butter Vinaigrette
The number of salad recipes on NCK is growing with alarming speed, considering that I describe myself as the opposite of a salad lover. A salad hater? I wouldn’t go that extreme, but know that if...
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Vegetarian Tuna Melt
Proof that I am not vegan (because all the cheese wasn’t enough?): I have no idea what jackfruit is or where I might find it. When I googled “vegetarian tuna melt”, that’s the first thing that popped...
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Italian Overnight Breakfast Bake
‘Tis the season for overnight breakfast bakes! Like this one, which we might as well just go ahead and call what it is: bread lasagna. For a while there, breakfast casserole type things were out of my...
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Cauliflower Piccata
A rut of rich, cheesy, decadent things is not a bad rut to be in, but it’s a rut nonetheless. A food blogging rut that led me to peruse an old favorite, Food Network (.com), in search of fresh recipe...
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