Quick and delicious weeknight meals
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 …
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 …