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Brighten up cold, gray days with these 15 refreshing winter citrus recipes! We've included everything from salads to desserts.
Do the cold, gray days of winter get you down? We have some frigid days ahead this week. And while we are very ready for warmth and sun, these bright and fresh winter citrus recipes will help get us through.

These are some of our favorite recipes to eat this time of year. They feature the season's best produce- winter citrus! This includes all kinds of wonderful things like clementines, blood oranges, grapefruits and more. From salads to desserts, they are great in so many recipes. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do!
Karen's Grapefruit Avocado Salad with Honey Lime Dressing
This Grapefruit Avocado Salad is bursting with fabulous flavor, a perfect blend of fresh, sweet, and savory with layers of great texture. On top of all that, it's super healthy!
Pink Grapefruit Marmalade
This Pink Grapefruit Marmalade is a taste of delicious sunshine on your toast, biscuits, scones, English muffins...
Ridiculously Easy Microwave Lemon Curd
Making homemade lemon curd can be a complicated process. Not this fabulous silky smooth Microwave Lemon Curd!
Orange Cilantro Vinaigrette
This easy Orange Cilantro Vinaigrette is bursting with fresh flavor and will add lots of pizzazz to your winter salads.
Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad
This Provencal Roasted Chicken Salad has a wonderful Mango Curry Dressing. It's fresh, healthy and loaded with delicious flavor!
Clementine Arugula Salad
This delicious Clementine Arugula Salad features sweet clementines and a fabulous array of vibrant ingredients!
Ridiculously Easy Lemon Buttermilk Cake
With a triple dose of lemon, this Ridiculously Easy Lemon Buttermilk Cake is a lemon lover's dream come true!
Raspberry Meyer Lemon Marmalade
This Avgolemono, a lemony Greek chicken pasta soup is healthy and hearty (lots of satisfying protein), creamy (no cream!) and so delicious!
Ridiculously Easy Orange Olive Oil Cake
This delicious, tender-crumbed Orange Olive Oil Cake can be thrown together in minutes with just one bowl and a whisk.
Skillet Lemon Rosemary Chicken and Farro
With juicy, tender chicken, healthy farro and loads of fresh spinach, this delicious Lemon Rosemary Chicken and Farro is an easy meal in one pan!
Crinkly Crackly Lemon Sugar Cookies
These one-bowl, no-mixer, lemon sugar cookies have a melt-in-your-mouth texture, super-crisp, sugar-coated exteriors and moist, chewy insides!
Orange Fennel Spinach Salad with Honey White Balsamic Dressing
This Orange Fennel Spinach Salad is fresh, healthy and super delish. It's also a beautiful sight to behold!
Avgolemono (Greek Chicken Pasta Soup)
This Avgolemono, a lemony Greek chicken pasta soup is healthy and hearty (lots of satisfying protein), creamy (no cream!) and so delicious!
Easy Blood Orange Marmalade (no canning skills needed!)
With only 15 minutes of hands-on time, this delicious Blood Orange Marmalade brings a little sunshine to the breakfast table!
Thought for the day:
I have told you these things,
so that in Me you may have peace.
In this world, you will have trouble.
But take heart!
I have overcome the world.
John 16:33
What we're listening to for inspiration:

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