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Easy Spicy Zucchini Rice Soup (Instant Pot Pressure Cooker)

Simmer a serious amount of zucchini with citrusy chile spice and rich vegetable broth, make it a brighter green with fresh parsley or basil, and, when the vegetables are soft and tender, blend everything to creamy smooth. Finally stir a big handful of cooked brown rice for this nourishing spicy zucchini rice soup!

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Easy Skillet Poached Eggs with Spinach and Leeks

Time’s ticking by. You’re hungry, and you don’t have a plan for dinner. But you do have eggs in the fridge. How about these scrumptious skillet poached eggs with spinach and leeks? Perfectly poached eggs nesting in an emerald bed of spinach and leeks, this recipe is simple and quick. We need such recipes in our back pocket!

Skillet Poached Eggs with Spinach | Letty's Kitchen

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Rainbow Chard Garlic Toasts

 This is Utah Eat Local Week, a statewide grassroots challenge to eat as locally as possible. To celebrate our regional harvest and showcase some incredible Utah products, I used as many Utah ingredients in these rainbow chard garlic toasts as I could. No matter where you live, I hope this recipe sparks you to choose local foods when possible.

Rainbow Chard Garlic Toasts

With home gardens and CSAs happily overflowing with produce, I felt comfortable taking the Eat Local Pledge, challenging myself to eat and cook and blog local for one week. Everything I needed for today’s recipe–the artisan whole grain bread, sweet rainbow chard, salt, awesome garlic and a very tasty honey wine vinegar–I found at farmer’s markets and nearby grocery stores. Continue Reading…

Crunchy Herb Croutons with Heirloom Tomatoes

Bet you can’t eat just one. The crunchy herby croutons, that is. Or is it the tomatoes, so ripe, so sweet, so full of late summer freshness? Colorful wedges paired with salty golden crisp in one happy mouthful—this arrangement of crunchy herb croutons + heirloom tomatoes are, for me a least, irresistible.

Crunchy Herb Croutons + Heirloom Tomatoes

After you eat just one crispy herby cube of a crouton, you’ll want another, and another. Like the bet in that old potato chip commercial, one is not enough. Leave these crunchy munchies out for snacks and they disappear as soon as you can say peasant bread.I’m going to wager you’ll like these croutons more than potato chips.

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Brown Rice Sushi Salad {vegan, gluten-free}

Think of brown rice sushi salad as a deconstructed vegetarian sushi roll. Instead of rolling sweet vinegar rice and fillings into sheets of nori seaweed, toss the flavored rice and sushi fillings along wth little slivers of nori and turn it into a tangy slightly sweet salad!

Brown Rice Sushi Salad in bowl on sushi mat with chopsticks | Letty's Kitchen

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