Saturday mornings in Florida means Cuban Coffee with Sweet Toast. More accurately my order at the cafe was for “Un Café Cubano y dos Torrejas por favor.” It is the equivalent of Coffee and croissants you would order in France. It is a gloriously decadent way to spend a Saturday morning. You sit outside at […]
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Grilled Ahi Tuna Sesame Noodle Bowls with Kiwi Pineapple Salsa It is recipe contest time again! Zespri is bringing a new varietal of Kiwifruit to the market. For a Minnesotan like myself, we are familiar with new varietals of fruit and we get pretty excited about them. The University of Minnesota is famous for creating
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Summer is one of my favorite seasons for ingredients! So much bounty comes fresh from my own garden or direct from local farms. It is prime time for one of my favorite foods ever, tomatoes! I love tomatoes in all forms, in ketchup, BBQ sauce, spaghetti sauce, salsa, in breakfast dishes, and here in a
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The Best Low Sodium Ketchup Recipe When you embark on a low sodium diet, you start to realize that salt is hidden in almost everything. Condiments are often a an easy pitfall for anyone starting out on a low sodium diet. They succeed in pulling the salt shaker off of the table and think that
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I’m addicted to dill pickles. I nearly cried when I first thought I would be losing them in my life once I started on the low sodium journey. Then I hacked the salt in a family recipe and started making salt free dill pickles at home. Ta-dah! I could add pickles back into the mix.
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It’s taco time! You don’t have to wait for Tuesday, especially with this guide to building the perfect low sodium taco! They are a quick food, fast food, fresh food, and typically a very affordable meal choice. It was a staple in our household growing up. Taco Night was something my brothers and I looked
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Summer is the season that screams for light dishes, light sauces, and fresh healthy ingredients. My Walnut Avocado Pesto Chicken Pasta meets all of the above criteria and is low sodium as well. As the weather heats up, I don’t know about you, but I need dishes that are lighter in flavors and ingredients so
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Low Sodium Beef Stroganoff It’s comfort food at its best, and was probably a staple on your table as you were growing up. It is also one of the most requested dishes you have asked for my take on, so here is my low sodium Beef Stroganoff. It’s probably the most well known Russian dish
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Celebrate a Heart Healthy Cinco de Mayo Everyone loves a Fiesta! Cinco de Mayo is a great holiday that is celebrated with food. Sadly, many of the traditional Mexican, Spanish, Latin, and Caribbean dishes are often high in salt. No to mention the salt on the rims of the Margarita glasses. Buzzfeed.com picked up a
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Low Sodium Blackened Fish Tacos Tacos. Perfect in their own simplicity. It’s fillings in various forms and incarnations easily delivered to your mouth via a hand held conveniently edible tortilla delivery system. Rivaled only perhaps by the sandwich. So popular a fast food chain, Taco John’s trademarked having Taco Tuesdays. So what better way to
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