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Pasta with Spinach and Tahini Sauce

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This super-fast pasta recipe has been sitting in my draft box for ages and is from Donna Hay’s cookbook, “Week Light”. If you love tahini as an ingredient, then you will love the nutty flavor of this pasta recipe. Continue reading “Pasta with Spinach and Tahini Sauce”

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Green Beans and Freekeh Salad with Tahini Sauce

Green Beans and Freekeh Salad with Tahini SauceFreekeh (pronounced freak-uh) is a healthy whole grain food. A young green wheat that goes through a process of roasting, is then cracked or left whole. Love the smokey flavor and nutty texture of freekeh and like other grains, perfect in salads. High in fiber, protein and iron, freekeh is another favorite grain of ours. And when mixed with green beans and tahini, what’s not to love about this fresh tasting salad.

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Sri Lankan Dal with Coconut and Lime Kale | My Cookbook Shelf

Dal is a favorite of ours and we have loved our visits to Sri Lanka over the years so when our local book store Words Bookstore and Cafe picked Meera Sodha’s cookbook Fresh India for the local cookbook gathering… the first recipe I tried from this lovely vegetarian cookbook was the Sri Lankan Dal with Coconut and Lime Kale. Continue reading “Sri Lankan Dal with Coconut and Lime Kale | My Cookbook Shelf”