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"Adapted from a Martha Stewart recipe. These are amazing on their own as a side dish or with pasta."

Ingredients: fresh ground pepper, dried thyme...

"This is a great method for roasting garlic, so it can be ready when you start cooking in the evening. I've even done it overnight and started cooking in the morning. Roasted garlic goes great with mashed potatoes, on pasta, or simply spread on crusty bread."

Ingredients: garlic, olive oil...

"I don't eat bananas often, even though I love them. When I do have bananas, they have to be very special, and I promise you, these babies are very very special! Try serving them over vanilla frozen yogurt, or with an intensely chocolate ice cream."

Ingredients: currants, fresh lime juice...

"I found this recipe on a site that was promoting an Asian-flavored Thanksgiving. Even though we don't really celebrate the holiday per se, we adore sweet potatoes and we love Indian cuisine, so why limit ourselves? The original recipe called for yams, but I subbed in the sweet potatoes. Feel free to re-sub the yams. I also adapted the recipe..."

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, coconut milk...

"This has been a family favorite for years and is about the simplest recipe you can make!"

Ingredients: bermuda onions, cucumbers...

"This is a fantastic lentil dish. In my quest to find healthier food that my family liked and would actually eat, I decided to try this recipe. It was demonstrated on T.V. by Ali Sabbah from the Mazza Cafe, a Jewish restaurant, in Salt Lake City. My family just ate this up, even my picky five year old boy. I had to post it before I lost the recipe."

Ingredients: cinnamon, ground cumin...

"this is a great vegetarian side dish."

Ingredients: cinnamon, ground cumin...

"Talk about presentation! These gorgeous frozen floral bowls (edible!) are recommended for cold soups, particularly fruit soups. But I figure anything cold would be more than enhanced by these bowls. You can make a bowl for each serving or one big serving bowl. Recipe discovered in "Cooking Fearlessly: Recipes and other Adventures from Hudson's..."

Ingredients: fresh edible flowers, water...

"This goes wonderfully with grilled meats, and even with cooked pastas. You can make it as sweet as you like depending on the sweetness of the onions, taste as you go along!"

Ingredients: fresh ground pepper, dry red wine...

"This is ideal for when fresh fruit isn't available."

Ingredients: sweet red wine, oranges...

"This is a staple at our house. We like to eat it by dragging some fresh pita bread through it by hand."

Ingredients: cucumbers, eggplants...

"from Living on a Dime website. Haven't tried it but it looks promising. Keeps one week or can be frozen."

Ingredients: oranges, zest of, grapefruits...

"I got this from Nice and Easy by Lyn Bedford Hall. My kids love it!"

Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cloves...

"This is a wonderful refreshing dessert or palate cleanser that I adapted from a recipe found in Pino Luongo's " Simply Tuscan". I serve it in frozen, hollowed out orange halves, garnished with a mint leaf."

Ingredients: orange juice, sugar, lemons...