Cottage cheese and berries has long been a favorite combination of mine, but one would hardly consider it a meal in itself…or is it? I sought a way to make this nutritious duo into a light lunch, and what resulted was this salad. Whenever I make this recipe, The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever” gets stuck [...]

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When I first became interested in cooking as a teenager, I kept coming across variations on a single recipe in every cookbook I read: the chicken salad. It seems that everyone has a special twist to add to the humble chicken salad. After tinkering with such recipes and making a simple switch from chicken to [...]

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In the year and a half that I’ve lived here in Raleigh, I’ve dined at my beloved Zest Cafe no less than nine times (perhaps more—but that’s as many as I counted in the blog archives). Although all the menu items I’ve sample have been fresh and delicious, I seem to favor one dish in [...]

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