French Onion Soup (Pressure-Canning or Freezer Recipe)
This authentic bistro-style French onion soup is a safe pressure canning recipe or is ready to serve as a party-sized batch. Or, you can freeze portions for easy elegant meals!
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Butternut Squash, Caramelized Onion, and Goat Cheese Quiche
This rich and delicious butternut squash, goat cheese, & caramelized onion quiche is a perfect fall-winter vegetarian brunch or dinner recipe.
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French Onion Soup (Pressure-Canning or Freezer Recipe)
This authentic bistro-style French onion soup is a safe pressure canning recipe or is ready to serve as a party-sized batch. Or, you can freeze portions for easy elegant meals!
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Jasmine Yellow Rice (easy stove-top recipe)
This brightly colored and fragrant rice dish is one of our go-to side dishes for all sorts of meals. It's a simple one-pot stove-top rice recipe that's ready in less than 30 minutes.
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Zuppa Toscana – Sausage, Potato, Kale & White Bean Tuscan Soup Recipe
This pressure canning recipe for Zuppa Toscana is a flavorful, substantial soup that combines Italian sausage, potatoes, white beans and greens to make a delicious, pantry-ready meal. This recipe was developed using the guidelines in FNH-00065, "Canning Soups and Sauces", a bulletin released by the University of Alaska, Fairbanks Cooperative Extension, which permits using diced celery and onion in make-your-own brothy soup recipes, even though those two ingredients do not have listed individual processing times per the USDA Choice Soup canning guidelines. It has not been individually lab-tested but was written in accordance with these safe-canning guidelines. You can also skip the pressure canning steps, simmer the soup until done, and serve or freeze right away!
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Pan-Seared Trout with Tomato Pepper Relish & Yellow Rice
This pan-seared trout with a zippy Mediterranean tomato salsa is as fresh as it gets. A healthy homemade dinner in less than 30 minutes!
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Matcha Brown Butter Rice Krispies with White Chocolate
These matcha rice krispie treats have a complex flavor from nutty brown butter and bright green matcha green tea. The slight bitterness of the green tea powder is offset by the sweet and creamy white chocolate chips and a hint of real vanilla. Add colorful sprinkles for an even more fun and festive dessert!
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Smoked Trout, Potato, and Goat Cheese Quiche
This rich and delicious Scandinavian-inspired quiche pairs smoked trout or salmon with thin slices of golden potato, tangy goat cheese, and fresh dill for an inspired brunch or light dinner recipe.
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Smoked Trout & Herb Cream Cheese Spread
Of course, this creamy smoked trout spread is fantastic on bagels. But it's also great on crackers, crispbread, rye toast, and celery sticks. Or make one of the smoked trout dip variations and serve with crusty bread, cucumber slices, or other crudites. There are more recipe ideas and serving suggestions in the main post. It tastes fancy, but only takes a few minutes and a few ingredients to make!
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Winter Tabbouleh Salad
This winter tabbouleh salad is a seasonally-appropriate adaptation of this Mediterranean traditional staple dish. I make this in the fall and winter when the usual produce ingredients aren't available (yeah, you can buy them, but they aren't local or very good). Instead of the tomatoes and cucumbers, we use crunchy cabbage and radishes, along with generous amounts of parsley, lemon, and bulghur wheat. It's a brightly-flavored vegan side dish or light lunch that does not taste like "health food"... though it is packed with vitamins and fiber! This recipe makes a big batch, so if you aren't feeding a crowd, or making your lunches for the week, you can scale it back or cut it in half- the procedure is the same.
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