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Butternut Squash Arugula Salad

September 16, 2019

Butternut squash arugula salad topped with white beans and toasted pecans, then drizzled with maple vinaigrette. This is the perfect fall salad. Spicy arugula is studded with roasted butternut squash, creamy cannellini beans, crunchy pecans and sweet cranberries. This salad can easily be a meal on its own, or a healthy, filling side. Try it with my stuffed acorn squash for a fantastic fall dinner.

overhead view of butternut squash arugula salad

The combination of the vegetables and beans with a little sweet and a little crunch makes this a delicious salad any day of the week, but especially if you try to do a meatless meal once in awhile.

If you make a purchase through one of the affiliate links, I make a few pennies at no extra cost to you. Questions? Please see disclosure for info.

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Filed Under: Salads Tagged With: arugula, butternut, chard, cooking, cranberry, dinner, dinner ideas, easy recipe, fall, Food, greens, healthy, how to, kale, legumes, make ahead meals, meal prep, meatless Monday, nuts, pecans, recipes, salad, salads, spinach, vegan, Vegetable, weeknight cooking

Grilled Pear Gorgonzola and Candied Pecan Salad

March 26, 2018

This pear gorgonzola and candied pecan salad, or some variation of it, has been around for ages. Usually it’s made with walnuts, but I swapped them out for pecans. Normally, the pears aren’t grilled, but I find that little touch of smokiness from the grill gives the pears great flavor and I’m all about tons of flavor. Why eat something boring when you can eat something super tasty?
Grilled Pear Gorgonzola and Candied Pecan Salad
Grilled Pear Gorgonzola and Candied Pecan Salad is one of our “go-to” weekend lunches.  Sweet, salty, candied pecans are the perfect compliment to sharp gorgonzola.  This salad is perfect anytime of the year, but we find ourselves eating a copious amount of salads when the signs are spring are all around us.
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Filed Under: Salads Tagged With: blue cheese, candied pecans, cooking, gorgonzola, grilled, grilled pear, nuts, pear, pecans, salad

Gluten-Free Granola Breakfast Cookies

January 22, 2018

Breakfast cookies are a thing, I swear. And they’re delicious. You don’t have to feel guilty about eating a cookie for breakfast. These have no refined sugar, they are gluten-free and one breakfast cookie will keep you going.

Granola Breakfast Cookies
 Whether you grab one for a breakfast on the go, pack one for a hike or bike ride or need a mid-morning snack, these healthy cookies are the perfect option.
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Filed Under: Breakfast Tagged With: breakfast, breakfast cookies, fruit, gluten free, granola, healthy, make ahead, no refined sugar, nuts, oats, peanut butter

Oven Roasted Potatoes, Herbed Pecans and Honey Mustard Pecan Dressing

December 11, 2017

Oven Roasted Potatoes with Herbed Pecans | Pook's Pantry

Oven Roasted Potatoes

This post for Oven Roasted Potatoes with Herbed Pecans is sponsored by Idaho® Potatoes. As always, all opinions, recipe and photos are my own. Thank you for supporting the companies that support Pook’s Pantry.

Idaho® Potatoes roasted until crispy then tossed with toasted, herbed pecans and a honey mustard pecan dressing. These potatoes are packed with flavor and just a little spice.  This is a delicious side dish that would go beautifully with your holiday dinner.

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Filed Under: Side Dish Tagged With: Christmas, dressing, holidays, honey, nuts, pecans, potato, potatoes, sides, Vegetable

Food Friends

September 20, 2016

Greetings, All!  I am away in Idaho this week with my friends from Idaho Potato!  In lieu of posting a new recipe, I wanted to share some awesome recipes from my super talented friends.

I do hope you will check out their recipes, as I happen to think they are pretty great!  Besides being amazing in the kitchen, they are good humans and I am lucky to know them.  I can’t wait to tell you all about Idaho and the fun things happening there right now!  I’m updating and sharing pics on social media every day, so if you want to see what we’re up to, check out my Facebook page,  Instagram account or Twitter feed for the latest shenanigans.

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Filed Under: Fall, Spring, Summer, Winter Tagged With: bars, cake, Chocolate, coffee, corn, cream, custard, Dessert, Food, friends, jam, macadamia, mocha, noodles, nuts, oats, panna cotta, pork, rice, risotto, salad, sauce, soup, tart

Fruit and Nut Chocolate Bark

July 13, 2015

 

Bark

I try, I mean I REALLY try to eat a healthy diet about 90% of the time… but, there is this issue I have with sweets.  I don’t limit myself to candy a few times a year like most reasonable people…  I limit myself to chocolate a few times a month (ok, a WEEK!),  it’s a problem but honestly I don’t care.  Chocolate Bark is one of the easiest treats to pull together and this one has fruit and nuts in it, so it’s practically health food.

We have all seen the peppermint bark for sale around the holidays.  Why limit yourself to peppermint and why limit this deliciousness to only the holidays?   While we’re on the topic, why pay $20 a pound when you can double that amount for half the price?

This treat is perfect for those times when you want a little something (which for me, is always), but you just don’t feel like turning on the oven, or getting the big stand mixer out, or cleaning up a huge mess (does anyone ever want to clean up a big mess?!).   During the summer months, I’m especially inclined to make something that allows me to have my sweet fix without having a 400 degree box of heat cranking in the kitchen.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: candy, Chocolate, fruit, nuts

Shrimp & Slaw

April 9, 2015

shrimpRecently I posed a question on the Facebook page asking what people wanted to see and one of the requests was “a meal that can be made in about 30 minutes, when I get home from work”.   I get it,  life is crazy busy and the last thing most people (most sane people) want to do after coming home from work is stand in front of a stove for any length of time.

This is a meal I made for a client of mine and it took well under 30 minutes to make, she loved it and requested I make it again.  I probably need to get in the habit of sharing what I cook for clients…

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Filed Under: Seafood, Spring, Summer, Vegetable Tagged With: healthy, nuts, salad, seafood, shrimp, Vegetable

Salchichoc (Chocolate “Sausage”)

May 3, 2014

 

Disclaimer:  I received a pdf version of “Charcuteria: The Soul of Spain” .  Any links to book are affiliate links.

choc sausage

 

Chocolate Sausage?  No, it isn’t a recipe for actual sausage made with chocolate,  it is a dessert fashioned to look like sausage and it is made out of chocolate.   Kinda brilliant…  but then again, I do love Spain, Spaniards and their whimsical sense of humor 🙂

Charcutería: The Soul of Spain is an in depth look at Spanish charcuterie, unfortunately most of which is completely unavailable to us here in the United States.   This book covers every facet of it and is peppered with anecdotes from the author’s experiences in Spain, which also make it a fun and engaging read as it connects to recipes in the book.  The writing and explanations are descriptive and never feel like the author is talking “at” you instead of “with” you.

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Filed Under: Desserts Tagged With: Chocolate, cookie, Dessert, fruit, nuts

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