Recipes

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Our Favorite Pizza Sauce

The perfect pizza sauce can compliment the toppings or add a zing and freshness to an already tasty pizza.

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Giant White Beans with Greens

A show-stopper in the bean category, giant white beans are surprisingly smooth and creamy in this warm salad.

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White Bean Hummus

If you're a hummus addict, give this white bean version a try!

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Bean, Corn, & Squash Stew

A perfect pairing with rice, couscous, tortillas, corn bread, or biscuits!

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Pompadour Salad

Sweet, spring salad!

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Spicy Moroccan Chickpea Soup

Spicy doesn’t mean hot in this delicious soup. Pantry ingredients and a few vegetables are all you need to put this recipe together.

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Michigan Rhubarb Cherry Chutney Sauce

The perfect sauce for pork, chicken and duck!

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Roasted Fresh Asparagus

There's nothing like fresh summer asparagus! Roasting brings out the sweetness.

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Spinach Strawberry Salad

Fresh strawberries top this spinach salad while frozen strawberries enhance the dressing.

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Beef Pasties

This pastie recipe is perfect for the Michigan native. The combination of onions, potatoes, carrots and rutabaga in a pocket of pie crust is bound to warm you up in the colder months.

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Pickled Peaches

Pickling is a technique used to preserve all kinds of foods. The acid from the vinegar allows the peaches to keep for an extended time in the fridge while the texture of the fruit remains fresh.

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Perch with Mango Salsa

Perfectly seasoned perch!

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Thai Plum Noodle Salad

Fresh plum seems to be a surprise ingredient in an Asian-inspired noodle salad. But the two have met before! Plum sauce, also known as duck sauce, is commonly found in noodle bowls and stir fries.

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Pineapple and Shrimp Banh Mi

A Vietnamese-style sandwich

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Taro Frittelle

Taro is the potato of the humid tropics. Like the Irish potato we know and love, taro is a tuber, a staple starchy vegetable, and a key ingredient in many traditional dishes.

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Thai Braised Yardlong Beans

Long beans are very important in Thai cuisine. This is a seriously delicious, traditional dish

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Red Wine-Poached Pears

When it comes to fruit desserts, there’s none better than this meltingly soft pear infused with red wine and served with pear-wine syrup. Served warm or chilled, love’s in every bite!

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