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A Midori Sour that Goes Against the Green

Food Thinkers offers up this very grown-up approach to the Midori Sour, using fresh pineapple and lemon juices from your juicer … entirely avoiding any extra sugar and relying instead on the Midori itself to sweeten the deal.

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Get Two Dishes from One with Ratatouille Gratin

Do you always end up with too much produce in your garden? This recipe gives you two great ways to use it all up.

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Stale Bread Goes from Blah to ‘Ahhh’ in this Pudding

We think even simple bread pudding is delicious, but one with chocolate and coconut is even more exciting. The best feature of this recipe (other than you can whip it up on a weeknight) is that it doesn’t make a huge batch, so it’s a perfect dessert for four diners, acceptable for two … or pretty fantastic for one.

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Punch Up Your Juleps with Peaches

Mint juleps may remind you of horses and big hats, silver cups and Southern drawls. But this recipe adds the surprising ingredient of fresh peach juice to the mix, making this famous Southern specialty perfect for summertime sipping no matter where you call home.

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Tell 'Em It's 'Martian Juice'

Adults know that juicing is a super way to sneak more produce into their diets, but how do you get kids in a juicing mood? With Martian Juice, of course! Today, Food Thinkers shows how this unlikely pear-radish-celery combo is bound to entice your adventuresome child, transporting them to other-worldly tastiness.

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Every Day's a Vacation with At-Home Piña Coladas

The piña colada is a great way to experiment with the simplicity of adding fresh juice to your adult beverage repertoire because it only requires juicing one ingredient: a pineapple.

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Craving Grilled Pizza?Satisfy It Yourself with this One-Bowl Dough

If you’ve eaten pizza made by anyone’s hand other than your favorite pie maker’s you know that the homemade kind is incomparable to nearly everything else: the crust is more crackly and yeasty; the toppings seem to taste fresher (even if they really aren’t); and its imperfect, lack-of-roundness makes it all the more appetizing.

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