Sometimes you need a quick side dish to go with your BBQ'd chicken, or fried fish, or for a potluck, or for just about anything. This quick and simple 3 bean salad is so easy, using only a few ingredients, without a complicated dressing recipe, and the flavors are fresh and yummy. Continue reading
Whew that's a big recipe name, huh?? Well let me tell you, tautog with creamy tomatoes and cornmeal fried okra will be your new best friend this spring. Forget slimy okra - my quick and easy pan fried technique takes the sliminess out and only leaves you with little nuggets of pure okra heaven.
This is the season for tautog on Cape Cod, and yesterday my wonderful hubby woke up at 4:30am to go work his fingers to the bone catching our meal for this evening. Word of advice - get you a guy that can catch dinner for you. The difference between a freshly caught fish and a store bought fish is like night and day.
Roasted or grilled salmon is one of those meals that is both easy, quick and full of good healthy fats and protein. This honey teriyaki salmon is a delicious, quick meal that you can put together on a busy night, or even make ahead and reheat the next day. The leftovers are great as well served cold on a salad!
Ok picture this, a cornbread with tons of corn kernels, but put together with a rich, buttery custard and baked to bubbly perfection.
Ummm helloooooooo, can we say delicious?!
There's really never a bad time to enjoy a biscuit, especially when it's on a holiday like Easter. I have always been a huge fan of southern foods like fried okra, corn pudding, hush puppies and of course biscuits.
The best biscuits are the ones that have tons of flakes, but there are a few tricks to the flakes - for one thing you need cold butter, cold flour, cold everything until the minute the go in the oven! Want to know the other tricks? Keep reading!
I'm really hoping the title explains it all, but if you need more explanation, then here it is. Marinara sauce that tastes authentic, light, flavorful using just 5 ingredients.
If there's one recipe everyone should know by the time they're 30, it's how to make your own sauce! Store bought jars of sauce are full of sugar and other weird things, and the ones that aren't are super expensive!
It's good to always have a jar on hand for when time gets tight, but once you learn how to make this easy marinara, you may never buy store bought jarred sauce again! Continue reading
Fried rice is one of my go-to dinner ideas when I really have no energy to cook but want something satisfying and healthy. Someone once asked me after a cooking class, "So what will you be making for dinner tonight?" and since I had just done a three hour cooking class, I knew my answer would be something simple, so I told her I was planning to make fried rice.
Her response was something along the lines of thinking it sounded too complicated and needed too many ingredients, which might be the case for others too.
So I am here to tell you that yes!, you can make fried rice easily, in about 15 minutes, with few ingredients and a few tricks to speed up the process.
Not only is this Lemon Chicken & Orzo Soup healthy (for 1.5 cups per serving it is 250 calories and 20 grams of protein!!) but it tastes delicious and perfect for a stormy day (like the one we are having as I write this). This easy to make soup has been a favorite of mine for years. If you're vegetarian, you could easily sub out the chicken for mushrooms and use vegetable stock. Continue reading
Salty prosciutto, flakey wild-caught cod, fresh lemon juice and fresh rosemary sprigs come together to make this Prosciutto Wrapped Cod an absolutely irresistible and easy dish to make. If you're bored with the usual baked fish with breadcrumbs and butter recipe (like me), this is just what you need!
I'm always seeing things wrapped in bacon, which is quite similar to prosciutto - call it the bacon of Italy? - yet it doesn't leave you feeling like you just ate a pound of bacon grease. Continue reading
So many recipes out there for Chicken Piccata call for close to a full stick of butter! And while that does make the flavors of the sauce richer, it's certainly not making my FitBit food log very happy...
In this Lightened Up Chicken Piccata, we still incorporate butter, but just a little bit, like 2 TBS worth, and that's it! The richness and flavors are still deliciously lemony and perfect, but without the extra calories from all that butter.
