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 …
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 …
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, …
Taste: *** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick Tim and I enjoyed a taste of Greece tonight. The meal was a great combination of homemade — cucumber salad and tsatsiki — and store-bought — pitas and a rotisserie chicken. Ever since our trip to Greece in the …
Taste: **** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick I’ve been on a Mexican kick recently! Last night we had ancho & cocoa carne asada tacos with an avocado slaw on the side. The cocoa, chili powder, and cinnamon rub essentially mimics the flavor of mole poblano sauce. …
Taste: *** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Quick It’s been a long winter and although the days are getting longer and it’s a bit warmer, I am definitely antsy for spring and summer. AdBuyer.com duties prevent us from getting to a sunnier climate so I decided to …
Taste: **** Difficulty: Easy Cleanup: Moderate Tim’s birthday is on Tuesday but we had an early celebration with his parents tonight. After a delicious dinner at Jarnac — our favorite French bistro that happens to have half-off wine on Sundays — we came back to …
After a gluttonous steak dinner with some very creamy creamed spinach, I thought we should go a bit lighter tonight and enjoy a vegetarian dinner. I was looking through the February recipes posted on Epicurious and found this Black Bean Burger recipe that couldn’t be …