Recipes by chef regina

 My hope is that you will find recipe inspiration and education for your own cooking journey. Learn more about how you can create delicious meals for yourself, family, and friends!

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Appetizers, Homemade Pantry Condiments, Snacks, Soups or Salad & Dressing, Tips and Techniques

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Fresh peach salsa is sweet, savory, and sassy with a little kick from jalapeños. It’s a triple threat! Vine ripe peaches and nectarines combined with garden vegetables create a delicious salsa to accompany sautéed fish and chicken, and used as a chunky dip with tortilla chips. Peaches: Fresh vine-ripened peaches are the BEST! You can […]

Salsa: Orchard Peach, Nectarine, and Heirloom Tomato

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Potato-leek soup in a white porcelain bowl. Topped with croutons.

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This recipe is an offshoot of the more French classic potato leek soups. This is sort of a meat-and-potatoes type of recipe! It has a bit of cheese and can be served chunky or smooth.  You can even add some carrots and parsnips along with the potatoes in Step 2 for a bit of extra […]

Potato Leek Soup with Cheese

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You can make your own blue cheese dressing with just a few ingredients and just under 10 minutes. I’m sure it will tastes even better than store-bought. It’s true, you either love blue cheese or you can do without it. My husband, Stan, is staunchly on the “love it” side of things. There are so […]

Homemade Blue Cheese Dressing Recipe

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This thick and creamy pumpkin soup is simple to make using canned pumpkin puree!  Caramelized onions and paired with autumnal spices of cinnamon, nutmeg, thyme and ginger give this favorite soup an amazing warm flavor! You’re still using a grocery store shortcut (canned pumpkin), but you get total control over the flavor, it’s a time […]

Pumpkin Soup with Toasted Pepitas

orange pureed pumpkin soup topped with pumpkin seeds and flaky salt served in a white bowl with a blue rim

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lentil soup with red diced tomatoes

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Lentil soup is a culinary wonder. It’s creamy without any dairy, satisfying and protein-packed without any meat, and easy to make from a handful of kitchen staples. Essentially, lentil soup is everything we need right now. This lentil soup recipe is a few years in the making: Having been disappointed by too many lentil soup […]

The Absolute Yummy Lentil Soup

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