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Yummy pasta recipes and cookbooks

If you love pasta, have a look at these delicious recipes and terrific cookbooks.

 
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Yummy pasta salad recipes for any day of the week.
Quick and Easy Pasta Salad Recipe - Inspired Taste
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Great cookbooks for everyday meals! These two cookbooks have yummy recipes for healthy and delicious salads, starters, pasta, fish, seafood meat, and desserts.
Great cookbooks for everyday meals
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The classic Pasta Bolognese is always a good choice. Use mince or use only tomatoes. The best topping is parmeggiano cheese.
Spaghetti Bolognese - RecipeTin Eats
 
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Wondering what to make for dinner? You're in the right place! Below, you'll find easy dinner ideas to satisfy any craving. Think tacos, chicken, pasta, and more!
60 Easy Dinner Ideas - Love and Lemons
 
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Pasta grannies is an amazing cookbook for all who love pasta. Have a look at this cookbook. ‘Learn how to make pasta like Italian nonnas do. Inspired by the hugely popular YouTube channel of the same name, Pasta Grannies is a wonderful collection of ...
Pasta Grannies: The Official Cookbook
 
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Simple, Elegant Pasta Dinners: 75 Dishes with Inspired Sauces. If you love pasta, this cookbooks is made for you! 

Luxurious Dinners that are Deceptively Easy to Pull Together.

Nikki Marie, blogger behind Chasing the Seasons, transforms everyone’s go-to pantry staple by using heirloom Italian methods to create complex flavors at home. Creative combinations like French Onion Penne, Red Wine Spaghetti with Swiss Chard and Spi...
Simple, Elegant Pasta Dinners: 75 Dishes with Inspired Sauces

Terrific salad recipes and cookbooks

Spring and summer is the season for salads. Use fresh ingredients of the season and let your imagination sparkle.

 
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Fresh salads is my favorite food in the summer!
51 Best Salad Recipes - Love and Lemons
 
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Spring is here and it is time to eat more salads. I found this great recipe for a colorful spring salad.  Simple, bright, and delicious, it's the perfect way to showcase the season's best produce.
Bright Spring Salad - Love and Lemons
 
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To eat a salad is a great and healthy choice. Eat at least a small salad every day and your body and mind will thank you. Salads can be fun and filling—and this healthy cookbook shows you how, with 230+ dinner-worthy salad recipes packed with color, ...
The Complete Salad Cookbook: 200+ Dishes
 
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Avocado, carrot, tomato, olives and honey make this salad super delicious. This dish is wonderful with chicken or fish. And this one is so easy to do!
Avocado, Carrot, Olives and Honey
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Amazing chicken meals

Chicken can be cooked in so many ways. Try a chicken salad, roasted chicken, or enjoy chicken tenders with rice and a tasty sauce.

 
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Sometimes in our busy life, we want to do cook something delicious and yummy but quite quickly. This is for those days. 

Chicken Carrot Tomato And Basil. It takes only 5 minutes to cook chicken tenders. During that time you chop lettuce, slice a carrot and slice small tomatoes. When the chicken is cooked, season it with a sprinkle of salt and for example tomato and gar...
Chicken Carrot Tomato And Basil
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Juicy roasted chicken... something I love to do once a month. I look for new recipes and test them. Try this one!
Juicy Roasted Chicken
 
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Healthier chicken tenders cooked in a simple delicious garlic butter sauce. The chicken tenderloins turn out so tender, juicy, succulent, and flavorful. A weeknight dinner ready in just 15 minutes! This one of the easiest and best chicken tender reci...
Garlic Butter Chicken Tenders

Delicious seafood

Fish and seafood are delicious food. I love prawns, salmon and white fish. 

 
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Salmon is healthy and delicious. This honey garlic salmon is so yummy.
Honey Garlic Salmon - RecipeTin Eats
 
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A fantastic book for all who like to eat seafood! The California Seafood Cookbook: A Cook's Guide to the Fish and Shellfish of California, the Pacific Coast, and Beyond.

First published in 1983, The California Seafood Cookbook has sold 128,000 copies—and counting! This beautiful encyclopedic guide to seafood cooking is complete with 150 recipes emphasizing simplicity, fresh ingredients, and ethnic and regional tastes...
The California Seafood Cookbook: A Cook's Guide to the Fish and Shellfish of California, the Pacific Coast, and Beyond|Paperback
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Sweet and delicious dessert

Everyone loves a small or big dessert! Here are some of my favorite desserts.

 
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Yummy desserts. Strawberries, chocolate, mango, peach with a mousse or in a cake tastes so delicious. What is your favorite dessert?
Dessert Recipes - Allrecipes
 
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75 easy to do fruit desserts. There are so many delicious desserts to choose from. I am sure there is something here that you will love.
75 Fruity Desserts With Lots Of Wow-Factor
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This dessert is easy to do and tastes heavenly. Only three ingredients but the layers of taste are fantastic. Mix blueberries, vanilla cream and  strawberries!
Blue Red And White Dream
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I love Jamie Oliver's recipes. This is for a dessert cake. Red velvet cake. It is so good, you want to eat all at once.
Red velvet cake | Jamie Oliver recipes
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Fresh vegetables and fruit

Eat a lot of vegetables and fruit. Vegetables and fruit contain vitamins and fiber, and they taste so good.

 
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Great vegetable recipes and meals. Vegetables are a very important part of our daily food. And there are so many ways to cook vegetables or we can eat most of them uncooked. Lots of vitamins and good taste!
Vegetables A-Z
 
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Juicy fruit is so tasty and good. It's good to eat some fruit daily. I love berries, pineapple, mango, peach, kiwi, melon and figs.
Fruit
 
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Tomatoes are so delicious and healthy.
Take your love for tomatoes to the next level with this delectable collection of 100 incredible recipes from the coauthor of the bestselling cookbooks Six Seasons and Grains for Every Season. 
Americans eat more tomatoes than any vegetable except for the potato. But what do we do with all those tomatoes? 

Acclaimed chef, cooking teacher, and author Martha Holmberg shares 100 recipes to turn the tomato into glorious dishes. Whether it’s a fresh-off-the-vine tomato or a just-picked-from-the-supermarket-shelf tomato, Holmberg has ideas to make the best o...
Simply Tomato: 100 Recipes for Enjoying Your Favorite Ingredient All Year Long|Hardcover

Delicious starters

Delicious starters for any day of the week, parties and picnics!

 
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Delicious starters for any day of the week. A tasty starter is a great choice. You dont need to cook a large main course. I love cured salmon and dill, shrimp and mayonnaise on crispy toast, tomato and mozzarella on garlic bread and asparagus with pr...
Dinner Party Starters - BBC Good Food
 
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I started a food blog some years ago. I thought perhaps a few of my followers on Benable are interested in various recipes, so I share some blog posts here. This one is for Tomato Asparagus And Sour Cream. (We call sour cream often creme fraiche here... 

This is a vegetarian starter, which many could love. You need a beef steak tomato, green fresh asparagus, a few olives and sour cream. Have a look at the blog post and see if this is something you want to test this summer. Vegetable starters are terr...
Tomato Asparagus And Sour Cream
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This fresh tzatziki recipe will liven up any summer starter or meal! Rich, creamy & full of fresh herbs, it's delicious on pita, grilled veggies, sandwiches, and more!
Tzatziki - Love and Lemons
 
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This is a terrific cookbook for everyone who likes to eat soup every week or perhaps during the winter season.

Make the most of fresh produce all year round with more than 200 homemade soup recipes organized by season, then by ingredient. The Soup Book is packed with nourishing recipes for every season. Try winter warmers such as parsnip and apple soup or Fre...
The Soup Book: 200 Recipes, Season by Season
 
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Looking for dinner party starters? 

Kick off with one of these easy yet impressive starters, from in-the-shell scallops to veggie cauliflower fritters or colourful tomato salad with 'nduja. The fig-mozzarella-serrano starter is one of my favorites!
64 starter ideas!

Scandinavian cuisine

Scandinavian cuisine is based on fresh ingredients and healthy meals.

 
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Scandinavian cuisine is delicious. We eat lean white fish and salmon every week. We use berries in our cooking. In autumn the mushrooms and chanterelle are fresh and we can pick them in the forest or buy them in the store.
True North Kitchen: Simple, Seasonal Nordic-Inspired Recipes
 
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So Delicious is a cookbook filled with yummy and healthy recipes. With chapters including Salads, Salmon, Pasta, Prawns, Vegetables, Lean White Fish, Chicken, Lean Meat and Desserts you will find new favorites for many days of the week. Enjoy rich fl...
SO DELICIOUS Less Calories, More Flavor
 
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A colorful, healthy and delicious salad is always a good idea. Enjoy this salad / side dish with warm vegetables, chicken or lean meat and you have a tasty lunch or dinner. Watercress is a very healthy herb, tomato contains vitamins and tastes so goo...
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Tina is so popular here in Scandinavia. I think you will love her food! 

Tina Nordstrom's Weekend Cooking: Old & New Recipes for Your Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays.

At the end of a long work week, we’d love to simply leave the grocery bags on the counter to unpack themselves, get comfortable, and call for takeout on Friday night, and maybe Saturday, and definitely Sunday. However, pints of fried rice and slices ...
Tina Nordstrom's Weekend Cooking: Old & New Recipes for Your Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays
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Magnificent meat

Meat gives us protein. A good steak is delicious with vegetables or a salad.

 
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Steak gives us protein and a good steak is delicious. It's recommended to eat red meat only once or twice a week. What is your favorite steak?
A juicy steak is so good
 
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If you like spices, tender meat and mushrooms, this is a great recipe for you. If you prefer chicken over meat, change the sirloin steak to chicken fillets. Welcome to my food blog.
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My grandmother was from Karelia, a part of Finland that we had to give up after WW2 . This meat stew (hot pot) is a very traditional Finnish dish. This is my special version of it, with traditional Finnish spices and meat meeting Italian herbs, red w...
Karelian Meat Stew
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Easy and healthy food

Starters, meals and dessert that are easy to do and also healthy.

 
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A fantastic cookbook for all who love to eat healthy food.

So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating.

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER So Easy So Good turns healthy eating into a breeze with vibrant, delicious recipes and expert tips! The perfect Mother’s Day gift for moms ready to take on nutrition with confidence and flavor! Registered dietitian a...
So Easy So Good: Delicious Recipes and Expert Tips for Balanced Eating (A Cookbook)|Hardcover
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This lunch salad is mighty tasty and delicious. The soft, lovely taste of avocado mixed with juicy berries, lemon, delicious mozzarella, olives, herbs and wonderful spices, creates a heavenly mixture for the taste buds. Welcome to my food blog.
Avocado, Shrimp and Blackberries
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