Quick and delicious weeknight meals
In this month’s Real Simple, there was an article on ten ideas for your basic cheese ravioli from the refrigerator section. Many of the ideas looked quite tasty and they all looked like a very easy way to spruce up a basic ingredient. I made …
Here is a healthy, vegetarian dinner option for those of you trying to keep to your New Year’s resolutions. I was a little skeptical of this recipe but then I read the reviews on the Food Network site and they were all raves! The sauce …
I just wanted to write a Happy New Year message to my readers and say thank you for reading my blog during 2009! Here are some stats for the year: This is my 215th post for the year. I’ve had just under 31,000 readers since …
I thought this would be a nice side dish for the pork (it can also serve as a standalone vegetarian entree). Because the pork had to cook at 350 degrees, I roasted the cauliflower, onion, caper combo earlier in the afternoon. I figured the cauliflower …
I made this recipe the other week and thought it would be a good recipe for the week after Thanksgiving since everyone has probably eaten too much turkey and might want a meat-free meal. The bread pudding was very easy to make and was tasty. …
After the eggplant parmesan, Tim and I were in the mood for a lighter dinner. I had noticed this recipe in Real Simple a while back and decided to make it last night. The recipe is very quick and easy. The chickpea patties are a …
Eggplant parmesan is one of my favorite dishes. But until this weekend, I never made a legitimate eggplant parmesan. The dish isn’t difficult to make but I have always been daunted by the mess and many steps involved in the recipe. Given the 2.5 hours …
Tim and I are spending a quiet long weekend in the Berkshires. The cool mountain air inspired me to make soup.  I asked Tim what kind of soup I should make. He answered (very definitively), “black bean soup, like Atticus.” Tim never demands particular foods …
I recently read Amanda Hesser’s Cooking for Mr. Latte: A Food Lover’s Courtship, with Recipes (many thanks to Raina for the recommendation). The book wonderfully weaves together tales of cooking, dining out, and eating with friends and family and her relationship with her now husband …
Meatless Mondays are back with a vegetarian pasta recipe. (And, I ACTUALLY did make this on a Monday!) This simple dish — requiring only a few ingredients — is packed with lemony flavor. Because I had some fresh asparagus and Italian parsley in the fridge, …