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Add a “Wow” to Your Recipes
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Our program this month with show you how to make your food taste better using a flavoring ingredient you already use. We explore how to readapt your cooking techniques, use salt to develop flavor, and still stay healthy.
Link to Important Questions to Ask Yourself about Salt
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Recipes with Smart Techniques
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Quick & Easy Mug Lasagna
Microwave an individual serving of this Italian favorite
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About the Recipe: This real Italian meal in a mug that can be prepared easily. It uses lasagna pasta, ricotta cheese filling, Italian tomato sauce, and shredded mozzarella cheese. Soften the noodles, make the filling, layer, roll up, and cook in the microwave for only 2 minutes. It’s that easy! We included some small sausage slices with our lasagna, but it can be customized to use your favorites ingredients. We loved the thick sauce Otamot for its natural taste, healthy ingredients, and cooking consistency. It’s amazing how this delicious healthy food is really fast food.
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Open-Faced BLT Salmon Sandwiches
A favorite classic sandwich gets a healthy update
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About the Recipe: Many people say that the classic BLT was inspired by the legendary club sandwich. It continues to be popular because it’s simply delicious and a family favorite. This recipe added ever-popular juicy salmon, a healthy choice for Omega 3 followers, to the BLT idea. Now there’s another reason why this classic is even better. It’s a delicious way to stay healthy!
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Peruvian Ancient Grain Dinner Bowl
Make Ahead Veggie-Rich with Rainbow Colors
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About the Recipe: This vegetarian meal-in-a-bowl takes you on a virtual food trip to Peru. It’s a dining styled dinner, highlighting the ancient high protein grain quinoa. It’s topped with a flavor-roasted peppered corn, punchy, orange-zested sweet potatoes with pecans, healthy green kale and onions, cool avocado slices and fresh cilantro sprigs. Drizzles of orange lemon salad dressing and fresh orange wedges add that happy, sunshine feeling. This dish brings a healthy and delicious meal right onto your table in a casual new style.
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SalterieOne/formerly Duxbury Saltworks
Lily Leedom and her team making artisan sea salt at Duxbury, MA saltworks location.
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She started by experimenting in her kitchen and slowly evaporated salt water in pots. Lily ultimately found the right formula that resulted in beautiful, pure sea salt that had the consistency and texture she was seeking. She recognized the consumer’s desire for all-natural, healthy food, Lily realized that while there were many food categories that had been transformed coffee, tea, chocolate, and snacks, the salt category didn’t offer the same high quality, flavorful, pure & USA made options. As a wife, mom, athlete and seeker of good health, she knew customers wanted a natural healthy product.
Lily Leedom Interview about Artisan Salt Making
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Apple + Bacon + Cheddar + Arugula Salad with Sriracha Maple Dressing
Recipe by: Lily Dupont Leedom – November 13, 2020
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INSTRUCTIONS for the Salad
Place arugula in a mixing bowl and slowly add dressing to taste and toss to combine. Then, place the dressed greens into a bowl, top with cheddar cheese, bacon, pecans and apple. Finish with a pinch of Duxbury Saltworks Classic Sea Salt.
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Recipes Using a Smart Approach Maximize Flavor
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Light & Dark Layered Chocolate Pudding
Chilling in the refrigerator, it forms layers to swirl together
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About the Recipe: I love something that forms itself into different layers. This recipe will turn into light and dark chocolate layers as it sits in the refrigerator. Just a few turns through the pudding will produce a swirled top. If you chill it again, it will produce a liquid in the swirls. This is fun recipe to enjoy that is even healthy for you.
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Dairy Free Cashew Cream Cheese & Chili Peppered Cashew Cheese
What is cashew cheese?
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What is cashew cheese? It’s a non-dairy, vegan substitute for cheese. Many different herbs or seasonings can be mixed into the creamed mixture. Adding more liquid turns it into a creamy sauce. If it’s kept thick, it forms into a hummus-like cream cheese ingredient. Adding agar-agar powder and arrowroot powder can create a thick cheese and adding turmeric will provide a rich golden color.
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Creamed Broccoli Soup
Plenty of cream but it’s not dairy
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About the Recipe: This broccoli soup is so creamy that it’s hard to convince tasters that it doesn’t have any dairy products in it. The soup is full of heathy ingredients. Broccoli, the star veggie, is a nutritional powerhouse full of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and antioxidants. It’s known to contain sulforaphane, vitamin C, and fiber. This delightful soup is easy to make, healthy to eat; and double delicious too.
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Vegan Chickpea Spaghetti with Dairy Free Alfredo Sauce
Serve a creamy dairy free sauce over your favorite spaghetti
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About the Recipe: The creamy spaghetti dish is layered with flavors. Caramelized onions and mushrooms are tossed with fresh green spinach with creamy vegan cashew sauce coating the spaghetti. It’s topped with fresh tomatoes, green onions, and sprinkled with spicy peppered seasoning or Duxbury Saltwork’s blend. It’s a perfect company dish and easy to make.
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Strawberry Spring Green Salad with Light Lemon Vinaigrette
Celebrate the season with a fresh-from-the-garden strawberry salad
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About the Recipe: Toss a colorful mixture of strawberries, cucumbers, red onions, and pumpkin seeds with light lemon honey mustard vinaigrette. Place them on a fresh bed of spring greens and add buttery avocado and chili peppered cheese cubes. Top with some sweet basil strips and a sprinkle of summer sea salt. Enjoy celebrating spring with a fresh from the garden strawberry salad.
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Maple Glazed Muffin Tops
Breakfast treat with protein-rich nuts, fiber-filled oats, sweet berries
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About the Recipe: How many times have you nibbled off the top of a muffin because you loved the crunchy crust? Muffin Tops are the great breakfast treats, especially if they are flavored with oranges and sweet berries. These muffin tops are the perfect companion for a special weekend breakfast.
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Chocolate Macaroon Pinwheel Scones
Soft and chewy chocolate coconut swirls through the buttery scones
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About the Recipe: Scones are like an American biscuit, having similar ingredients and techniques. The scones that typically are found in American bakeries are slightly sweetened with some add-ins. This recipe features an almond flavored scone with layers of chocolate coconut filling, forming a softer center and crunchy crust. Almond glaze sweetens the scones and are delicious with a cup of hot tea or coffee.
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