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Easy Swedish Meatballs

This Swedish meatball recipe makes juicy and flavorful meatballs with a creamy, rich, and crave-worthy sauce. If you prefer, you can serve the meatballs without the gravy. We love serving these with mashed potatoes (or mashed cauliflower). We also highly recommend a spoonful of lingonberry jam. For the gravy, I love soy sauce and a bit of lemon. They are not authentic, but truly make this gravy delicious.

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Loaded Baked Sweet Potatoes

This plant-powered lunch is packed with healthy fats from avocado and fiber-packed ingredients like sweet potatoes and black beans. It will fuel your afternoon and keep you sated until dinnertime.

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Best Vegan Pizza

We love all the flavors atop this vegan pizza - sun-dried tomatoes, jalapeño, basil, corn, and cashew cream make it a delicious, multi-colored meal!

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Margherita Pizza

This homemade margherita pizza is so easy and delicious! My biggest tip for this recipe is to use good-quality ingredients like fresh basil and sauce made with San Marzano tomatoes. Because the recipe is so simple, you'll really taste the difference.

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Customizable Vegetable Soup

You decide the outcome of this delicious, super healthy soup. Choose your favorite starchy vegetables, quick-cooking vegetables, cooked grains, and chopped leafy greens. Your expert creation is best served with Parmesan cheese and herbs.

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Crispy Rice Cakes with Spicy Tuna

Baking cooked sushi rice on a sheet pan transforms it into versatile, crispy rice cakes. Top them with a variety of flavors, like spicy tuna, miso eggplant, and ripe avocado, for a stunning party appetizer.

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Pomegranate Relish

We love the flavor (and color!) contrast between sweet-tart pomegranate and savory cilantro or parsley in this make-ahead, no-cook relish. It takes the place of traditional cranberry sauce in our modern Thanksgiving and is used to gild our Acorn Squash with Mixed-Grain Stuffing.

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Easy Snickerdoodles

We love these soft and chewy snickerdoodle cookies rolled in an irresistible cinnamon sugar. Every time we make a batch, we fall in love again. Chilling the dough for 30 minutes helps keep the cookies from spreading too much in the oven. You can keep the dough in the fridge for up to 3 days and in the freezer for up to 3 months.

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Mini Panamanian Beef Empanadas

These snack-size empanadas are filled with achiote-spiced ground beef and wrapped in a flaky dough.

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Sauteed Collard Greens with Garlic

Collard greens are normally associated with a long, slow cooking time, but this method requires only 10 minutes of steaming. Sauteing the leaves with garlic first balances the vegetable's bitterness. Pull or cut out the thick stems, and wash the leaves well before using.

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Creamy Lemon Pasta With Pistachios

A few things make this pasta dinner extra special: homemade breadcrumbs (trust us, they're worth it), 2 cups of grated Parmesan cheese, and chopped pistachios and chives for color and crunch. Best of all, the whole dish is ready in 25 minutes.

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Bok Choy Stir Fry

My favorite baby bok choy recipe! Plenty of veggies and a tangy ginger garlic sauce make this easy stir fry a delicious, flavorful weeknight meal.

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Lemon Herb Sardine Salad

Tinned fish gets an elegant upgrade with this bright and herby sardine salad.

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Easy Strawberry Fruit Salad

Serve this red fruit salad for dessert with whipped cream, add to oatmeal, or enjoy as a light snack. We use strawberries as our base and then add more fruit from there. Keeping all red fruit is pretty but not 100% necessary. Use what you love! Here’s our whipped cream recipe or our dairy-free vegan whipped coconut cream.

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Asparagus and Walnut Salad

In this refreshing spring salad, slivers of fresh raw asparagus meld with toasted walnuts and sharp Pecorino Romano cheese for a healthy and refreshing side dish perfect for serving with grilled meats or fish.

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Sweet Potato Hash

This sweet potato hash recipe is a delicious healthy breakfast (and it's great for lunch or dinner too)! I love how the veggies get nice and crispy on the bottom of the skillet as the eggs cook. Take this recipe over the top with fixings like avocado, hot sauce, and fresh cilantro.