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Creamy Garlic Scape Pesto + Meal Idea

Today’s post makes perfect use of these crazy little Dr. Seuss-esque greens we call garlic scapes. It’s a creamy savory garlic scape pesto that melts in your mouth and all over your favorite pasta or zucchini noodle sauté. Meet garlic scapes. If you’ve never grown garlic or spotted it in the wild it’s pretty cool. We …

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Asian Pesto + Vegetables + Ramen Bowl

Happy New Year! What better way to start 2016 than with a bowl full of vibrant and nourishing veggies!? This bowl is simple yet exciting thanks to the Asian pesto. The pesto made from Thai basil, ginger, garlic, and lemon juice whips up easily while the noodles are boiling and the vegetable shreds are soaking. There …

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How to Keep Pesto Fresh

It begins like this. A beautiful luscious bowl of homemade pesto. Pesto so vibrant and green it reminds you of spring time when the leaves first unfurl from their buds and into the breeze. But unlike leaves on the tree, pesto can turn from spring to autumn just like that. Brown unappetizing—probably still edible, but …

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Go Make This: Oil-Free Basil Walnut Pesto by Veggies in my Freezer

Welcome to Thursday’s editorial where I feature a recipe from another blog’s creative landscape. Today I’m sharing a delicious recipe I made from Veggies in my Freezer blog, Oil-Free Basil Walnut Pesto. We bought a 1/2 lb. bag of basil at the farmers market last Saturday and I wasn’t going to let it waste in …

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Arugula Pesto and Sun-dried Tomato Tapenade Raw Lasagna

That’s a mouthful and it was a delicious mouthful. I threw this together after my workout. Don’t roll your eyes. All I knew, was that I wanted to use up my last zucchini and wasn’t sure if I wanted to spiralize again. I decided to try out my new mandolin (a potato peeler would work …

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Sun-dried Tomato Hummus and Pesto Collard Wrap

Wow – this one is packed with yummy flavors! I really like the hummus-pesto combination with the mixture of veggies. What you’ll need per wrap: 1 Collard leaf, de-stemmed 1 tablespoon Sun-dried tomato hummus 2 teaspoons basil pesto 1 slice red onion 4 grape tomatoes, halved small handful baby spinach 1 carrot, peeled & shredded …

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Golden Beet Rawvioli with Parsley Pesto

I’ve always scoffed when parsley is used with basil in pesto. Like, who does parsley think he’s kidding trying to run with basil? Right? But, because I’ve recently fallen in love (I do this a lot – fall in love with food items) with a certain smoothie that has parsley in it, I decided to …

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