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Side salad with sliced Roma tomatoes, sliced cucumber, Romaine lettuce, and crumbled feta cheese.

Easy Greek Side Salad

A large soup pot full of stuffed zucchini soup.

Stuffed Zucchini Soup

A serving of stovetop Moroccan chicken tajine over couscous in a bowl.

Stovetop Moroccan Chicken Tajine

A white Polish pottery bowl with a blue upside down "Y" and a blue circles pattern filled with authentic Italian tomato sauce with fresh basil leaves on top.

Authentic Italian Tomato Sauce

The corner of a dark blue Polish pottery 9x13 dish filled with Easy Baked Tortellini Casserole.

Easy Baked Tortellini Casserole

A dark blue, white polka dotted Polish pottery soup bowl of beef barley soup with a spoon inserted in the soup resting on the edge. A pot holder is laying on the right of the bowl.

The Best Beef Barley Soup

A bowl of red lentil curry soup with a spoon on the left side of the bowl.

Red Lentil Curry Soup

Roasted red pepper lasagna in a dark blue rectangle Polish pottery baking dish.

Roasted Red Pepper Lasagna

A Polish pottery style serving bowl filled with Bruschetta Pasta Salad.

Bruschetta Pasta Salad

A hand held above a bowl of Janeth's Corn Salad Dip holding a chip with dip on it.

Janeth’s Corn Salad Dip

A white and blue polka-dotted bowl filled with ham and lentil soup sitting on a large white polka-dotted blue plate with three bread sticks on the left of the bowl.

Ham Bone Lentil Soup

Slow cooker goulash in a white and dark blue bubble patterned Polish bowl with a cloth napkin and spoon on the left and a hard roll up in the right-hand corner.

The Best Slow Cooker Goulash

A peacock patterned polish potter bowl of sun dried tomato hummus with chopped sun-dried tomatoes and a basil leaf in the middle drizzled with olive oil. Around the polish pottery bowl are sliced cucumbers, pretzels, sliced carrots, pita chips and sliced red bell pepper.

Sun Dried Tomato Hummus

A bowl filled with quinoa, diced chicken taco meat, cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce, black beans and topped with shredded cheese. On the left is a partial photo of chicken taco meat and a grey kitchen towel. On the right are two small glass bowls, one with chopped cucumber and the other with pico de Gallo.

Chicken Quinoa Burrito Bowls

simple weeknight meal of Chinese eggs and tomatoes served over rice

The Best Chinese Tomato and Eggs

A roll sitting on a plate with a bowl of Cowboy Stew.

Cowboy Stew

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