Brown Butter Garlic Snack Mix Recipe
Posted on March 11, 2010 - Filed Under Appetizers, Recipes | 1 Comment
When I was in college, I had a roommate one semester who loved garlic bread more than anyone I had ever met. Her mom would buy her a loaf from the grocery store every week and she’d bake it up one portion at a time. As much as I adore garlic bread myself, that was [...]
Read More..>>Lighter Chicken Enchiladas Recipe
Posted on March 9, 2010 - Filed Under Chicken, Recipes | 2 Comments
Some issues of magazines are just blow-you-over good. The 2008 Cookies issue of Fine Cooking is like that. Another 2008 goodie? The November 2008 issue of Everyday Food. I can’t tell you how many great recipes I have made from that issue.
These enchiladas are among my favorites — flavorful, creamy, cheesy and spicy (want to [...]
Sundried Tomato and Red Pepper Meatballs, and an Easy-Peasy Appetizer
Posted on March 5, 2010 - Filed Under Beef, Recipes | 4 Comments
These aren’t your average meatball.
Stuffed with bits of red pepper, sundried tomato and fresh parsley, these really don’t need anything more than a toothpick (or a fork, if you must). But, when you take a bit of fresh mozzarella and tomato and top them with half a meatball, it’s awesome. breathtaking. orgasmic. indescribably delicious. Total [...]
On Roasting a Chicken
Posted on March 3, 2010 - Filed Under Chicken, Recipes | 4 Comments
For being such a big fan of using roasted chickens, I don’t roast my own often. The ones from the grocery store are so darn convenient, you know? However, there are so many really great reasons to buck up and do it yourself. For instance, you can control the quality of chicken used, the seasonings, [...]
Read More..>>Whole Wheat Biscuit Recipe
Posted on March 2, 2010 - Filed Under Bread, Recipes | 5 Comments
One hundred years ago, making biscuits didn’t need the qualifier of “from scratch.” It’s just what people did. People cooked. They sifted and baked, rolled and cut. It wasn’t a big deal because it was just a part of daily eating life. But, as with everything, things eventually began to change when premade, ready-to-bake biscuits [...]
Read More..>>Cooking with Kids: Make Your Own Couscous
Posted on March 1, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, cooking with kids, lunch | 3 Comments
One of the most brilliant gifts of motherhood is watching your kids develop their own personalities, likes and dislikes. I am blessed to mother two strong, brilliant, adventurous kids who don’t think anything is beyond their reach. It’s amazing.
If you are a regular reader, you know that both of my kids adore cooking with me. [...]
Easy Parmesan Breadsticks Recipe
Posted on February 25, 2010 - Filed Under Bread, Recipes | 3 Comments
Do you ever start cooking something and then think, gee I wish I had ___? That’s what happened the other night as I stirred our beef stew on the stove. I really wanted something bready to go with it. I happened to have some fresh pizza dough languishing in the fridge, so I was totally [...]
Read More..>>Chicken Souvlaki Sandwich Recipe
Posted on February 24, 2010 - Filed Under Chicken, Easy Recipes, Recipes | 4 Comments
Confession time: When I listed out my favorites of 2009, one of the lists included a Chicken Souvlaki Salad from a local pizza place. Honestly, I thought it was their own creation … not something I could easily recreate at home. Then, right after I interviewed Aviva Goldfarb, I received the first weekly menu from [...]
Read More..>>Cooking with Kids: Chopped Salad Recipe
Posted on February 23, 2010 - Filed Under Raising Healthy Kids, Recipes, cooking with kids, salad | 3 Comments
The kids and I made a Mexican Chopped Salad today. It was awesome, and they gobbled it up. Actually, we gobbled it up. But what was more awesome was our conversation while we cooked.
While making it, I made a last-second trade-out of an ingredient, substituting agave nectar for honey. Will immediately asked me why, since [...]
Read More..>>Avocado and Red Pepper Israeli Couscous Recipe
Posted on February 22, 2010 - Filed Under Recipes, side dishes, vegetables, vegetarian | 3 Comments
Dear Readers, My weekly Cooking with Kids recipe will appear tomorrow. Due to technical difficulties, we had to delay it a day. Thanks for your understanding! -S
Sometimes, the best dishes come out of error. While busy testing recipes this weekend, I had a thought to try serving the Key Lime shrimp that I was playing [...]
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