Warm Summer Onion, Chicken, & Rice Salad

I love fresh veggies – who doesn’t? But when they’re fresh from the ground, chock full of dirt, JUST picked, they are really something special. ~ especially when they are a gift from your bestie. And onion, sautéed in butter, bubbly brown – oh my. I love the simplicity of this warm summer salad. Seasoned…

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Black Rice and Vanilla Stuffed Lotus Root

Typically you’d find lotus root pickled and served alongside a bouquet of other intricately and ornately prepared veggies alongside your sushi smorgasbord. But you know, me, nothing about me or my ideas are typical. I wanted something exotic…enticing…forbidden… Well, this may not be it, but carefully stuffing the porous root of the lotus flower with…

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