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Recipes using vegetables, legumes or grains as the main ingredient

Chopped Kale & Red Cabbage w/ slices of raw red peppers, shaved carrot, sliced green onions w/ brown rice & cilantro in a white bowl with a side of brown peanut salad dressing

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3 Corn Grilled in Darkened Husks and peeled back to exposed charred kernals.

Grilled Corn On The Cob in Husk

White bowl of chunky red onions, cucumbers, tomatoes, yellow and red peppers salad. Wood spoon it it.

Simple Summer Salad - Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Peppers

Round pie pan filled with sliced zucchini tomatoes with walnuts and cheese baked and crisp. 2 fork in the background. Close up.

Baked Zucchini and Tomato Casserole

Close up of wood bowl of cucumber soup with chunky cucumber and red onion garnish. White bowl of cucumber garnish on side.

Cold Cucumber Dill Soup

Top view of a bowl of cole slaw: cabbage and grated carrots in a white bowl. Forks on the side.

Simple and Easy Coleslaw

Oval white bowl of corn salad w/ quartered cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, red onions, and cilantro. Side view.

Easy Frozen Corn and Tomato Salad

3 Grilled Banana Halves and One Whole, still in skin & grilled. Set on a white plate and has a honey butter glaze.

Easy Grilled Bananas

Close up top image of cooked cherry tomatoes, sliced basil, creamy chunks of goat cheese, sliced pepperoncini, and garlic in a bowl.

Baked Tomato and Goat Cheese Pasta

2 wood bowls and one larger white bowl of chunks of peaches, tomato, and corn salsa. Spoons on the side.

Peach, Corn, And Tomato Salsa

White plate of brown seared / blistered small green peppers with a small white bowl of light orange peach sauce.

Blistered Shishito Peppers with Peach Sauce

Top down view of a white plate with chopped greens with quartered figs and pine nuts and goat cheese. Fork on the side of plant and pine nuts on the side.

Kale Salad with Fig, Goat Cheese, Pine Nuts

White bowl of ½ blended and ½ chunky cucumber and tomato gazpacho soup with basil leaf garnish

Fresh Cold Gazpacho Soup Recipe

2 spring rolls cut in half (4 halves) filled with avocado, grated carrots and red cabbage, rice noodles, green lettuce on a wood cutting board.

Healthy Vegetable Spring Rolls

Close up. Fresh Creamy basil pesto in a small white bowl on a delicate flowered napkin. Spoon sticking out and cherry tomatoes in background.

Fresh Basil Pesto - Fix A Bitter Pesto

1 white plate with corn on the cob with butter and dusted with chile powder. 3 pieces of plain corn on the cob in the background.

Corn with Honey Lime Butter

2 Mason Jars filled with sliced Pickles and vinegar and red pepper flakes and garlic. Side view.

Easy Quick Brine Refrigerator Pickles

Mason Jar with White Lid of Preserved Sliced Red, Orange, & Yellow Shishito Peppers

Quick Pickled Shishito Peppers

Side view of white bowl of green salad with shelled edamame, pecans, cherry tomato halves. Fork sticking out.

Arugula, Edamame, Tomato Salad

White bowl with wood spoon of red quinoa, diced tomatoes and cucumbers and red onions, and chopped parsley mixed together.

Gluten Free Tabbouleh with Quinoa

Cooked Green Beans & Fresh Cherry Tomatoes on a long white rectangle plate.

Fresh Green Beans and Cherry Tomatoes

Top View Corn & Lima Bean Succotash with diced Zucchini In A brown Bowl with a Wood Spoon

Butter Bean (Lima Bean) and Corn Succotash

Top down view of pasta in tomato sauce in a white plate with basil on top and a green napkin.

Cherry Tomato Sauce For Pasta - Pureed, Fresh, Easy

Tomato Tart with different sizes and colors of tomatoes on golden puff pastry with basil leaves and sliced basil garnish.

Easy Tomato Tart with Puff Pastry

Scored, Pan Seared, and Baked Zucchini Halves

6 tomato halves filled with wild rice, basil pesto, pine nuts, and feta cheese with Parmesan cheese broiled on the top. Close up.

Stuffed Baked Tomatoes with Pesto

Close up of butter in a green butter dish with toast in the background.

How To Make Homemade Butter In A Vitamix or Blender

Two brown bowls with spoons of diced cucumbers and avocado salad. Green onion garnish in a black bowl on the side. White and burgundy patterned napkin on side. Close up.

Addicting Avocado Cucumber Salad

Close up of Eggplant Parmesan with broiled on Mozzarella cheese and a basil garnish over zucchini noodles. White plate.

Baked Eggplant Parmesan with Zoodles

Sliced Peaches, quartered figs, chunked pecans, and crumbled blue cheese on a deep plate with fork and napkin. Top view.

Peach, Fig, & Arugula Salad with Blue Cheese

Close up and top view of two pieces of toast with blackberry jam. Butter and peanut butter and jelly jar on the side.

Easy Blackberry Jam - No Canning No Pectin

3 Mason jars full of blueberry smoothies. 3 with lids. blueberries and pecans laying on tablecloth in front of them.

Easy Blueberry Banana Smoothie

Breaded and Fried Green Tomatoes Layered and laying on a white paper towels on a white plate.

Southern Fried Green Tomatoes

Top down view of 4 ramekins filled with white pudding with an assortment of sliced strawberries, toasted coconut flakes, toasted almonds and spoons. On a wood cutting board.

Easy Coconut Milk Chia Pudding

White bowl of crispy shiitake mushrooms with 4 sprigs of rosemary in it and a purple napkin on the side. Side View.

Pan Fried Shiitake Mushrooms Recipe with Black Pepper

Top view of 3 black bowls of edamame with ginger and soy sauce on a wood cutting board with 3 sets of chopsticks.

Easy Shelled Edamame with Soy Sauce

Eggs poached in Pork Green Chile in a pan with a napkin and a spoon in the pan with a tortilla on the side. Pan laying on an open newspaper. Cup of coffee.

Eggs in Pork Green Chili

Browned flour tortilla quesadilla cut in half with filling showing on a wood cutting board with a chef's knife. Ingredients are black beans, arugula, cheese, and tomatoes. Close up.

Easy Egg Tortilla Breakfast Wrap

White plate of romaine lettuce, chunked beets and chopped pecans with a white dressing and orange zest garnish. Wine glass filled with water in the back. Outside table.

Roasted Beet and Romaine Salad with Pecans

3 Parmesan Crisps with specks of thyme on a Wood Cutting Board

Easy Parmesan Crisps (Frico)

Close up. Bowl of sliced sugar snap peas, orange peppers, red cabbage, and candy stripe beet . Large White bowl with a wooden spoon.

Sugar Snap Pea Slaw w/ Ume Plum Vinegar

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