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    Instant Pot Beef Brisket and Sweet Potato Chili

    A Two-Time Award-Winner Don’t let the headline fool you, while this is an Instant Pot recipe, it takes more than an instant to cook as it is made up of three different recipes. And yes, one of those recipes is for roasted sweet potatoes. However, it did win two different chili competitions so if you’re willing to put in the work and wanting to try something a little different, you will enjoy the fruits of your labor.

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    Snowpocalypse Kale and Sausage Instant Pot Soup

    Last week in Portland, Oregon, the weather forecast threatened us with an epic snowstorm. We had already seen how friends and family to the north of us, in Seattle, had already been hit hard with inches of snow and ice and missed school days. So, we could only expect the same…or at least prepare for that likelihood. So, Portlanders went shopping and apparently felt what they needed to survive in case they became stuck at home was bunches of hearty, leafy green kale. This was at least the narrative when this picture of an empty table at a grocery store was featured online. I tend to believe that the real…

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    Recipe: Sparkling Ginger Mint Limeade

    It always seems like a good idea to add a mint plant to your basket when you’re at the nursery. However, its fast growing nature eventually makes that spontaneous decision seem poor. Wanting to do more than to garnish every meal, I went on a search for recipes that didn’t include mint jam and could help provide relief for the early summer heat we’d been experiencing in the Northwest. I came across a Fresh Mint and Ginger Lemonade recipe on