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Gluten Free Summer Spinach Penne Pasta

Welcome to the June 26, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. This week we’re making a light yet filling Summer Spinach Penne Pasta recipe using summer veggies and leftover chicken, to take advantage of our great seasonal spinach and tomato prices (or garden bounty!). Not gluten …

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Easy Spring Salad — With green beans, avocado, tomato, and cucumber

Welcome to the April 10, 2016 edition of Sunday Scratchups: Your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery sales and affordable ingredients. Green beans and avocados are on sale at several stores this week as spring approaches, so let’s scratch up a fresh and tangy easy spring salad! Although the photos aren’t great, the salad was; I …

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Homemade Enchilada Sauce — From Fresh Tomatoes

Welcome to the August 16, 2015 edition of Sunday Scratchups — your weekly recipe from scratch around grocery store sales and affordable ingredients. Or, say, garden bounty when it’s in season! This week’s mystery recipe ingredient is again: TOMATOES, just in case your garden is also exploding with fresh tomato goodness. Make it or buy …

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Florida Tomatoes — Good, Good for You, and Bonus Easy Recipes!

This post has been sponsored by The Florida Tomato Committee. All opinions here, however, are my own. If you’re here with me in Illinois, you know that our weather is not particularly conducive to growing fresh tomatoes year-round — even in April, when the sun has finally come out today. Lucky for us and our lycopene …

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