Quick and delicious weeknight meals
On one of my excursions to Chelsea Market, I picked up a couple of bunches of gorgeous basil. I was buying something else but the fragrant basil leaves called to me and I couldn’t help but buy some! I decided to make pesto because it …
by Weeknight Gourmet Guest Blogger Happy Farrow One of my favorite cookbooks is Martha Stewart’s Everyday Food: Great Food Fast. Â I love that the book is organized by season with subcategories (soups and salads, main courses, pastas, sides, and desserts), and all of the recipes …
by Weeknight Gourmet Guest Blogger Elizabeth Terry I live alone, but love to cook, which can be a tricky combination. I’m sharing with you one of my go-to dinners. It’s ready in a snap, and uses ingredients that for the most part keep for a …
Here’s another super easy meatless Monday recipe — courtesy of the new Everyday Food cookbook — that relies on spring produce. The thing I love about this recipe is that other than chopping a tablespoon of fresh tarragon there is absolutely no chopping involved! Perfect …
My friend Suzanne had an adorable baby girl in February. She mentioned to me several weeks ago that she had made my favorite lasagna recipe before the baby was born and froze it. I decided that “make-ahead meals” would be a great blog series and …
As my due date approaches, I am definitely slowing down a bit so I am on the hunt for some easy weeknight meals. Tim and I both love pesto of any sort so when I saw this super simple Giada de Laurentiis recipe the other …
We had this tasty vegetarian pasta dish last week. It was very quick and easy to prepare, quite delicious, and reminded me of springtime. The store didn’t have frozen lima beans so I substituted frozen edamame (baby soybeans). Edamame are packed with protein and quite …
I had never made homemade macaroni and cheese until last night. For my first attempt, I turned to my go-to gal Ina Garten. Her recipes have never led me wrong and are always delicious. This mac and cheese recipe is no exception. It turned out …
I saw this soup and crostini recipe in a recent Williams-Sonoma catalog and knew I had to make it. I love all the ingredients involved in both the soup and crostini. The speed with which the soup comes together and the simplicity of the crostini …
Here is a delicious vegetarian dinner. I promise — you won’t miss the meat! I never had pesto made with peas before, but the parsley – pea – walnut combination was terrific. A little sweetness from the peas, some nuttiness from the parmesan and walnuts, …