Posts in Summer
Lentil Minestrone with Zucchini & Peas

Happy Summer! I'm celebrating with soup -- a very satisfying garden veggie minestrone. My version is traditional in that it contains pasta. But it's also loaded with other good things such as green lentils, chickpeas, summer veggies, dried herbs and spices. I actually think it's the combination of all these ingredients that make this soup so darn good.

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BBQ Bean Summer Bowls

Some of us might have had experiences with limp, boring salads, or thin, watery soups that have left us equating light summer meals with flavorless and unfulfilling fare. That's definitely not the case with these BBQ Bean Summer Bowls. A marriage between BBQ beans and sloppy joe filling, these summer bowls are a lightened up, flavor-packed BBQ meal, sans the bun. 

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