Quick and delicious weeknight meals
This is a super simple green bean salad with a refreshing lemon vinaigrette and some thinly sliced grilled red onions. The salad is made with haricot vert — French green beans — which are thinner and longer than typical string beans. I also find the …
We made this dish — a more sophisticated jalapeno popper — for the first time last night and it appeared to be a hit! I made the cheese filling and stuffed the peppers before our guests arrived and just kept the stuffed peppers in the …
Chances are if you’ve been to my house in the summer, you’ve had this dish. I first had it our close family friend Judy’s house and have made it countless times since. I take a shortcut and don’t actually make the salsa verde as shown …
We had some friends up to Becket last night. Amy, Colin and their adorable daughter Lucy drove up from New Haven and Ashley, who lives in San Francisco, drove over from Boston where she had some meetings. Sadly, Ashley’s husband Dave and beautiful baby girl …
This dish is an old standby for me. I have cooked it for many dinner guests and, without fail, the guests request the recipe! I typically get shrimp that have already been peeled and deveined as a time saver. And, I usually throw in a …
Taste: *** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick I made this quick and easy stir fry last night. The rice took longer to cook than the stir fry itself so it’s a great weeknight dish. A few notes…the store didn’t have snap peas so I bought snow …
Taste: *** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick I found this recipe on the Epicurious app on my iPhone and used the shopping list feature as I shopped at Trader Joe’s on my way home from the Berkshires. What a handy application! This pasta dish was tasty …
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I discovered that Epicurious has an iPhone application! For those of you not familiar with Epicurious, it is the cooking website owned by Conde Nast that publishes recipes from Bon Appetit and Gourmet. Their iPhone app let’s you search their database of 5,000 weeknight meals, …
Sometimes the simplest dishes are the most delicious! This recipe only requires 3 ingredients that might not be already in your pantry/fridge — bucatini, pancetta, and Pecorino Romano. Just a couple of caveats… Don’t forget to reserve the pasta water. It’s key to the sauce …