Quick and delicious weeknight meals
We had our friends Pam and Tony over for dinner last night. My mom will be quite surprised by the menu because it involved two ingredients I tend to avoid — dill and fennel. But when I saw the mahi mahi recipe as well as …
What’s better than strawberries and cream! Mark Bittman provides a wonderful alternative to the traditional vanilla-flavored custard in this week’s Dining section in the New York Times. I’ve included the recipe below but don’t skip the article — Strawberries, Coddled.  It provides some great tips …
Taste: *** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick I made this very easy vegetarian pasta dish last night. What a wonderful way to put summer produce to work! The great thing about this dish is that the ratio of vegetables to gnocchi allows the vegetable to take …
Taste: **** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick Here’s a different take on a cheeseburger…use ground pork instead of beef! These pork burgers seasoned with one of my favorite flavors — chipotle peppers in adobo sauce — were delicious. It’s amazing that such a small amount of …
Amanda Hesser writes a great op-ed piece in today’s New York Times about the need for a “cooking” role model in the White House. Growing and buying local isn’t enough. You actually need to cook with those local ingredients! Click here to read the piece.
Taste: **** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick When I was grocery shopping on Tuesday night, the store had a special on very thinly cut pork chops. I bought a package not knowing how I planned to prepare them. Yesterday afternoon I did some searches for “thin …
I couldn’t resist the title — hot pepper chicken — so I decided to make this dish last night. The chicken was less spicy than I anticipated but it had nice flavor! This was a very easy dinner to make because after seasoning the chicken …
Here’s a great alternative to mayonnaise-based pasta salads! Lots of delicious flavors going on in this salad – goat cheese, olives, proscuitto, and a great vinaigrette. Last night, I made this to go along with our hamburgers on the grill. I didn’t have any proscuitto …
After a glutenous rib dinner, I decided we needed something a bit healthier for dinner last night. I saw this salmon recipe in Food & Wine and loved its simplicity and the fact that there was very little prep work! We used wild sockeye salmon …
Key lime pie is a wonderful summer dessert. So refreshing and full of great citrus flavor! I have baked this key lime pie recipe countless times and it is always well received. In fact, once my father-in-law Peter ate almost an entire pie at one …