If you've been following NCK since the beginning, you know I like to do things the hard way. For instance, last summer I spent almost four hours
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Quick and Easy Dinners
My best quick and easy recipes when you need to get dinner on the table fast. Most are healthy, too!
Nut-Free Vegan Sour Cream
Let's get one thing straight: I'm not quitting sour cream. The stuff is a commodity in our fridge, which isn't surprising considering my affinity for
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Spicy Italian Broccoli Quinoa Bowl
Whether you're going back to school or not (I am not), fall always seems like such a good time for fresh starts. Maybe even better than new year's,
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Quick Veggie Curry
Last week, I made a big batch of chocolate baby shower cupcakes (see below) with fluffy vanilla buttercream frosting. This week, ant-pocalypse
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Cheddar Sweet Corn Pie
I'm at it again with the cheesy pie! So, remember the spaghetti squash pie from last fall? My most popular blog post to date for reasons that I can't
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Hummus Lentil Salad Lettuce Wraps
Here's how weekly meal planning often starts for me: I pick up my recipe notebook and a pen and plop myself in front of the fridge, making a detailed
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Vegan Nut-Free Coconut Oil Kale Pesto
Coming soon to a spicy quinoa bowl near you: nut-free coconut oil kale pesto. If you're a kale and coconut oil fanatic, there's no doubt this pesto
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Greek Tomato and Cauliflower Bake (Gratin)
This one gets filed under the "things that sound pretty weird but are actually delectable" category. In case you don't think cauliflower, tomatoes,
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Perfect 4-Ingredient Spicy Black Beans
I felt like I was on Chopped when I put this "recipe" for spicy black beans together. Goat cheese stuffed baked chiles rellenos had just gone in the
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Chickpea and Olive Tabbouleh
I like to bend the rules when it comes to Mediterranean cooking. First with my "not hummus" garlic garbanzo bean purée, now with this highly flexible
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Three Cheese Spanish Potato Frittata
Steve is off at the store securing his fiancé-of-the-year award, picking up poblanos and cilantro for the next stop on Tour de Gratins: battered and
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Potato and Kale Curry
The search is over: This week, I said "Yes!" to the dress! No, this is not becoming a wedding blog, or anything remotely close to it, but I feel that
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