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Thanksgiving Leftover Perfection: Turkey and Dumplings

Hi Friends! Welcome back to Whatcheescooking, the monthly cooking klatch where I share my family’s favorite recipes, products, tips and tricks to bring restaurant-quality meals to your table.  With the holiday season coming up WAY too quickly, it’s easy for that grocery bill to climb even higher than it usually

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Nourishing Comfort Foods This Holiday Season

Comfort Food The smell of onions, carrots and celery sautéing on the stovetop with butter. The first taste of chocolate chip cookie dough right out of the mixing bowl. The aroma of my mom’s cranberry meatballs wafting from the oven. These are a few of my favorite comfort foods. These

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Blackdiamond best mac and cheese

Top 10 Best Mac and Cheese in Spokane, WA

Looking for the best mac and cheese spots in Spokane? Don’t worry, I got you covered! I went all over the Spokane area – from downtown, to the valley, to the north side, tasting my way through some of the best places around to try to find that one spectacularly

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Simple Nasturtium Pesto from your Edible Garden

For this month’s recipe, I am using the Nasturtium from my edible flower garden to create an earthy, peppery, slightly sweet pesto. My Grandma Peggy was an extremely talented gardener, and every time I work in my beds I think of her and feel as though she is with me. I often wonder what she would think of my garden, and how I utilize the things I grow. I’d like to think she would be happy with the joy gardening brings me. She grew Nasturtium in her garden, as one of my aunties recently shared with me, although she didn’t use it culinarily.

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fresh herbs

Boost Flavor and Nutrition by Cooking with Fresh Herbs

We have all heard it’s important to eat your fruits and vegetables, probably a million times, right? I won’t be preaching that (today) but I do want to introduce you to the magic of cooking with fresh herbs and the many nutritional benefits associated with them.  Herbs and Their Corresponding

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No-Body-Shame-Summer

Eat Move Thrive Spokane It’s here! Beach season. Bathing suit season (sigh). Notice how that makes you feel… also notice how you are talking to yourself. What are you saying? Is this how you’d talk to your friend or your child about putting on their bathing suit? For me, the

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Shrimp Salsa Verde Tostadas

Shrimp Salsa Verde Tostadas

Whatcheescooking by kim lehr Hi Friends! Welcome back to Whatcheescooking, a monthly culinary klatch where I share the products, tips, and tricks to create quick and delicious elevated meals perfect for any weeknight.  The recipe I am sharing with you this week is a family favorite in our house, and

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Close up of a table setting at a nice restaurant.

Comment: The Mask That’s Killing Them

By Gavin Andrews It’s Friday night, and everyone in the restaurant is wearing a mask. I don’t mean the ubiquitous blue thermoplastic affairs, the ones carpeting the floor of your car like a new species of invasive algae. I don’t mean a garish but dubiously effective contraption ordered from Wish,

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