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Avocado Lime Yogurt Dipping Dressing

January 13, 2016 By Rachel 30 Comments

Avocado Lime Yogurt Dipping Dressing

If you love smothering veggie sticks or wings in thick, creamy dressing – but don’t love the excess fat and calories – this luscious, vitamin-rich dip is for you!

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Avocado, Cinco de Mayo, Dressings and Sauces, Easy, Fall, Gluten-Free, Healthy, Lime, Recipes, Snacks, Spring, Summer, Super Bowl Sunday, Vegetarian, Winter Tagged With: avacado, Cilantro, Creamy, Dip, Greek Yogurt, Light, Lime, vegan directions, Vegetarian, veggie dip

Heirloom Tomato Polenta Pie

September 1, 2015 By Rachel 13 Comments

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Give your guests something to talk about with these beautifully ugly heirloom tomatoes healthfully arranged on a chilled polenta pie!

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Filed Under: Appetizers, Recipes Tagged With: Balsamic, Chilled, CSA, Farmer's Cheese, Gluten-Free, Heirloom Tomatoes, Light, Pie, Polenta, Summer, Ugly Tomatoes, Vegetarian

Fish Tacos with Peach and Red Pepper Slaw

August 13, 2015 By Rachel 23 Comments

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Fish Tacos with Peach and Nardello Pepper Slaw are balanced with heat as well as smoky, sweet, and tangy flavors. It’s a light dish that’s heavy on flavor!

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Filed Under: Entrees, Recipes Tagged With: Cabbage, Fish, Light, Nardellos, Peaches, Slaw, Summer, Sweet Peppers, Tacos, Tilapia

Sunshine Chard and Carrot Salad

July 14, 2015 By Rachel 9 Comments

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Cut the fat, but keep the decadence! This healthy, lightened-up rendition of Sunshine Salad is summer picnic perfection!

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Filed Under: Recipes, Salads Tagged With: Carrots, Chard, Gluten-Free, Greek Yogurt, Light, Low Carb, Raisins, Recipe Makeover, Spiralized, Sunflower Seeds, Sunshine Salad, Vegetarian, Veggie Noodles

Greek Chicken Burgers

May 21, 2015 By Rachel 7 Comments

greek chicken burger with yogurt dill sauce

Greek Chicken Burgers – a lighter recipe that’s popping with garden flavors, smothered in a Feta and Dill Yogurt Sauce, and topped with sweet red peppers.

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Filed Under: Recipes, Sandwiches Tagged With: Burgers, Chicken, Dill, Feta, Grilling, Ground Chicken, Light, Memorial Day, Picnic, Roasted Red Pepper, Summer

Light Chicken Quinoa Divan

April 23, 2015 By Rachel 15 Comments

light chicken quinoa divan

Light Chicken Quinoa Divan has the richness of the recipe that inspired it, but is lightened-up and also freezer-friendly!

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Filed Under: Entrees, Recipes Tagged With: Broccoli, Casserole, cheese, Chicken, Creamy, Freezer-Friendly, Gluten-Free, Light, Make Ahead, Quinoa, Recipe Remake

Light Hollandaise Sauce

April 1, 2015 By Rachel 24 Comments

Light Hollandaise Sauce

If you’re anything like me, you LOVE hollandaise sauce, but you DON’T love all the calories and saturated fat. This recipe gives you a better option. It’s lightened up, and best of all, it’s all-natural!

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Filed Under: Dressings and Sauces, Easter, Eggs, Gluten-Free, Healthy, Lemon, Mother’s Day, Recipes, Spring, Vegetarian Tagged With: Easter, Hollandaise, Light, Reduced-Fat, Sauce, Spring

Light Chicken Tetrazzini

January 5, 2015 By Rachel 2 Comments

light chicken tetrazzini

This rich, yet Light Chicken Tetrazzini recipe is a re-make of it’s comfort food counterpart, drastically reducing unnecessary fat and calories!

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Casserole, Chicken, Healthy, Light, Tetrazzini, Turkey

Hi, I'm Rachel! Welcome to Simple Seasonal, a resource for simple, healthful, and delicious recipes that help you make the most of seasonal produce from your local farmer's market, CSA, or home garden. Simple Seasonal is committed to a whole foods diet. With an occasional cookie... ;)


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