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Cauliflower Broccoli Salad with Feta, Medjool Dates, and Pecans

Cauliflower Broccoli Salad

This is my new favorite salad. The medjool dates are so sweet, the pecans have the crunch, and the feta and pecans together give it just enough salt. It’s healthy and delicious!  My plan was to eat this for my lunch for a few days because I still am trying to take off a few pounds for Italy, but it didn’t last past the first day. James and Mom finished off the bowl before I could take any to work.  I had to eat take out from Piggly Wiggly’s deli instead. That meant I had to have some of their fried okra and home cut french fries, too. Oh well, I had to add a little more cardio and didn’t lose any weight this week, but at least I didn’t gain any either.

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Broccoli Red Quinoa Salad with Corn and Black Beans

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This scrumptious little salad was my lunch for three days in a row this week.  I made a huge bowl and stored it in the refrigerator. I scooped some out each morning to take to work. The first day it was great, the second day it was even better because the dressing had soaked into the veggies, and on the third day it was still good but skimpy on the broccoli. I think I picked most of it out trying to put more broccoli into my first two servings.  And I lost 2 lbs this week!

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Grilled Portobella with Basil, Tomatoes, and Goat Cheese

Mushroomgrilledstuffed Here they are Mitch! Mitch is a really good friend of mine from Louisiana, and he loves these mushrooms. It was his request that reminded me to post them to my blog; however, I would have eventually remembered to share them because they are mouth-watering delicious!

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Sweet Pea, Egg Salad

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When I was a little girl, my mom loved to make this salad.  She served it often with brown gravy and smothered vegetables.  This was always her contribution for Sunday dinners at Grandma’s, family reunions or church gatherings.  I remember everyone asking for her recipe, and she modestly saying, “Oh, it’s just too easy”.  And it is, but the simplicity of her recipe is genius: only three ingredients gives this salad a remarkable flavor.

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Honey Dijon Potato Salad

 

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My earliest memories of Easter Sunday are of my Paw Paw Ed preparing the barbeque on a handmade barrel-type pit in South Louisiana.  The day was filled with the smell of hickory smoke, hard boiled eggs, and wild Easter Lilies.  The Cajun tradition of egg pocking was in full force with Paw Paw winning most of the pocks with his Banty hen eggs, supposedly the hardest shells of all the hens.

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