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Indian Burrito Bowl
January 18, 2015 by Laura 17 Comments
This Indian Burrito Bowl with ground turkey, cauliflower, chickpeas, peas and caramelized onions (among other goodies) is the best kind of weeknight cooking!
This post has me thinking… or more to the point, getting the pictures ready for this post has me thinking. About the different ways of viewing a blog, and especially a food blog. I know bloggers for whom their entire site, all of its posts, are a complete work kind of like a cookbook is a complete work. All recipes triple tested and all photos perfect–and if not perfect at the beginning, they are replaced with perfect photos later.
There is nothing wrong with this approach.
But I like to think of…
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