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Easy Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups, your weekly recipe source around store sales and/or garden abundance. I don't know about your garden, but with all this rainy weather, mine is currently going nuts producing both basil and spinach. This easy and flavor-packed recipe makes liberal use of both, and substitutes cashews for pricy pine nuts. (I …

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Dairy Free Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto

The other day I scratched up some Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto using fresh basil and spinach from the garden. As your double bonus Sunday Scratchup recipe today, let me present the Dairy Free Cashew Spinach Basil Pesto variation for those of you with dairy allergies. This dairy free pesto substitutes Kalamata olives for the Parmesan …

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Good Cook Fruit Bowl Giveaway + Watermelon Granita Recipe!

This giveaway is sponsored by Good Cook. I received a fresh fruit bowl for purposes of review. All opinions here, however are my own. Today I have for you a giveaway and an easy fresh fruit recipe, all wrapped up into one! Let me tell you first about this awesomesauce Good Cook Fresh Fruit bowl, …

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Giveaway — Tropical Traditions Organic Shredded Coconut (5/7)

This giveaway is sponsored by Tropical Traditions. Tropical Traditions provided me with a free sample of this product to review, and I was under no obligation to review it if I so chose. Nor was I under any obligation to write a positive review or sponsor a product giveaway in return for the free product. …

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Gluten Free Fried Pickles -- Oven Baked and Dairy Free!

I'm a serious latecomer to the fried pickles craze and only tried them about a month ago: New Year's Eve 2013 at Sweet Baby Ray's (one way to see out the year with a bang, right?!). Alas, I wasn't overly impressed, because theirs were too sweet for my tastes. Double alas, Dairy Free Junior High …

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Roasted Chile-Lime Chicken and Potatoes

Welcome back to Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Today we're making roasted chile-lime chicken & potatoes, which is so very spicy and very good! I usually make this recipe with whole chicken but since chicken leg quarters were on sale this week I went ahead and substituted parts, …

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