Even though it might not seem like it here in Milwaukee, summer is coming and everyone will be having lots of fun creating new recipes. Waking up to bright sun rays streaming through your window, you can't help but reminisce about long gone vacations and summer days. This bowl almost seem like a breakfast salad...... lets just call it a warm breakfast salad. Inspired by the many random
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Tropical Mango Chili Chicken Salad
This delightful bowl stirs up some wonderful tropical flavors. Gratifying, healthy and light. The weather here in Wisconsin is dealing us quite a fluctuating game. Why not dream about sunny days and upload long forgotten summer recipes.
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Spicy Brown Rice and Beans
My darling mother-in-law always has something to share with me whenever we visit. During my most recent trip home, she gave me a zip-lock bag of this colorful delight. Can probably identify every bean in this assortment (except for one). We eat lots 'n lots of grains back home, so there wasn't much to debate about recipe ideas. Rice and beans! Yet another favorite childhood memory. This
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Spicy Shrimp Sandwich w/ garlic herb Spread
A sandwich can come in many shapes and sizes. Be selective, add on what you want and leave out the rest, but one thing it should never be is petite and boring. This sandwich is a monster, not for the faint of heart. Big in size, big on flavor, big on shrimp. Shrimp may not always be the obvious meat for a sandwich but boy does it compliment the tradition well. Any bread will do. I
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Pan roasted kale and butternut squash salad w/ red quinoa
Kale! A power house of nutrients. Hearing the crunch from their dark green curly leaves foretells a great find in the produce aisle. Such a robust flavor, and unless you really like your greens this might be a tough one to indulge in uncooked. Many sources, including some vendors at my local farmers market suggest you benefit more from cooked kale. Breakfast smoothies have definitely included a
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