What I'm Cooking Up This Week! 🍊


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7 Vibrant Tangerine Recipes

These are some of my favorites ~ tangerines, clementines and Satsumas have such beautiful complex flavors. From jam to flourless cake to roast chicken, this is the week to pick up high season fruit and get cooking.



what you're loving lately

Split Pea Soup with Ham 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

I made a smoked pork shoulder in the Instant pot today and saved the broth to make this delicious soup. Best recipe for pea soup that I have ever used. Thanks for sharing with everyone.
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Sue Moran

I love to make delicious food, photograph it, and write about it, but mostly, I just love to EAT. Isn’t that what it’s all about? My recipes are bold and vibrant, but totally approachable ~ and my philosophy? We should all have the tools to feed ourselves well, and the confidence to cut loose a little in the kitchen. Food should be fun!

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