Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
After a weekend of eating lots of bad-for-me-food to celebrate my birthday I am back and on the straight and narrow path of eating what’s good for me, and this Basil Chicken with White Cannellini Beans is the prefect meal. Most healthy dinners do not really entice the...
Appetizer, Food & Recipes, holidays, Side dishes, Traeger Grilling |
This is a very self indulgent post, it’s all things I love: figs, blue cheese, and Prosciutto. I am drooling just recalling how great these crispy prosciutto wrapped figs tasted, we made a nice dinner out of them by adding a nice dry white wine and big salad. I...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Seafood |
This grilled shrimp with mango salsa and cilantro rice has now supplanted all others as my husband’s favorite grilled shrimp meal, it is light, colorful and so very tasty so I am happy to make it whenever he asks. This recipe was the result of my needing a simple fun...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pizza, Traeger Grilling |
You can grill pizza on any BBQ, but I just bought a Traeger Junior Pellet Grill and it is awesome for grilled pizza. If you have always loved that little bit of char that wood burning ovens at restaurants can put on a thin pizza crust you need to try pizza on a grill....
Deserts, Food & Recipes |
My family is a family of chocoholics, so I had to give them a chocolate oatmeal cookie as they turn their noses up in disgust at a standard oatmeal raisin cookies. I decided to adapt the Great Harvest Bread Company’s oatmeal cookies to their tastes by going chocolate...
Beef, Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Uncategorized |
Grilled London Broil with Drunken Onions My family loves nothing better than a big hunk of meat, so when I find London broil on sale I know it will fit the bill. Marinating and then grilling this large piece of meat results in a beautiful presentation with a nice char...
Appetizer, Chicken, Food & Recipes, Main Courses |
Indian Lime Spiced Chicken Wings These chicken wings are everything you love about tandoori chicken and crispy roasted chicken skin all in one bite. I love, love, love Greek yogurt as a marinade on skin on chicken, the flavor from any spices you mix into yogurt...
In the Kitchen, Kitchen Hints, Uncategorized |
So excited!! Next week I am leaving on a girlie bonding cruise with my mom, aunt, and newest cousin: Rachel (she just married my favorite cousin Josh). I will be leaving my husband and the two girls to fend for themselves. I feel a little guilty that while I am...
Appetizer, Dips and Sauces, Food & Recipes, School Lunches, Uncategorized, Veggies |
I am always looking for a healthy after school snacks for the girls, and this sweet potato fruit dip seems to fill the bill plus they actually ate it. I have been making a white bean hummus for a while and while most of the kids like it a few flat out refuse, they...
Breakfast, Crockpot, Food & Recipes |
Most days everyone in the house has to be out the door by 7am. And we have a diverse set of appetites: a 13 year old looking for an early morning sugar rush we would rather she did not have, a chronically late 16 year old ballerina that needs calories for 6 hours of...
Food & Recipes, Main Courses, Pork, Uncategorized |
These braised spareribs are very yummy and very simple meal to make. The red cabbage so colorful and flavorful, the flavors so big that you can use this meal for a dinner party but it’s so little work that you can throw it together on a week night. If you really want...
Food & Recipes, Side dishes, Veggies |
These black beans are a modification of an awesome one pot chicken meal that Emeril Lagasse has in his cookbook: Sizzling Skillets and Other One-Pot Wonders, chicken and black beans with chorizo. I loved the black beans that are the base of the chicken dish but I...