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This week’s recipes:

️ 🌹Got a hot DATE?🌹

Never had Medjool Dates? Compared to other varieties, like the Deglet Noor, they are much larger and softer with a rich caramel taste. IMO, these are the finest dried dates! They bake up really well, blend nicely to sweeten a smoothie, or are even a great standalone snack.

Dates are delicious in every kind of dish. Get the best of all worlds by making these gems into Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Dates, a sweet and savory roast that will show off your Deep Roots chicken. Add-ons: Whole Chicken (cut it into parts) or Chicken Legs, Chicken Broth

🌊 Mediterranean Apps🌊 

Grab your Zucchini, and last week's potatoes or your sweet potatoes from two weeks ago, and make Zucchini-Potato Pancakes. This simple technique for making veggie fritters is really adaptable. Just make sure to squeeze as much water as possible out of the grated veg before mixing everything together! Add-ons: Flour, Eggs, Olive Oil

If you have leftover red beets from last week, you can roast them with the golden beets for a stunning multicolor side dish. Or, grab a can of chickpeas from our add-ons and make a Roasted Beet Hummus that would be great with cut up carrots/cucumber, on a sandwich (grab bagels or sandwich bread?), or with bagel chips.

We're giving you more lemons this week, and we know just the thing you should make with them. Preserved lemons are tangy, bright, and a perfect complement to Mediterranean flavors. Check out this Preserved Lemon Hummus for one way to put them to good use!

Your eggplants are the key ingredient to make my favorite dip, Baba Ghanoush! This spread has a really special flavor: Creamy, smoky, and savory. Put it on everything!

🛒Showing off Add-Ons 🛒

How good does this French Onion Grilled Cheese look? PEAK comfort food. I'll be making this with our Sandwich Bread this week, and you should too!

New in the pantry this week: Couscous! Use any leftover veggies you can think of with this riff-able, vegan Roasted Vegetable Couscous. Try mixing in your zucchini, yellow squash from last week, Chickpeas or Tomato Paste from the add-ons, or anything else your heart desires 💝

Fearless Fish Salmon will be the perfect pair with your tomatoes in this Salmon and Tomatoes in En Papillote, a super simple recipe with a fancy name. Each salmon filet gets its own little packet, that you fill with cherry tomatoes and anything else you'd like. If you have potatoes from the past few weeks' bags, roast 'em and serve with this dish!

🍦Something Sweet🍦

Get figgy with it, with this showstopping Fresh Fig and Lemon Cream Tart. You can and should make a little extra lemon cream along the way, to eat on yogurt, cake, or toast. Or let the lemons steal the show in Ina Garten's Lemon Bars . 🍋 Add-ons: Eggs, Sugar, Butter

Can't pick between types of quick bread 🍌🥒 ? You can have your cake (bread?) and eat it too with a Zucchini-Banana Bread for all your breakfast, snacking, and dessert needs. Add-ons: Sour cream, Sugar, Eggs