An incredibly simple, healthy and delicious way to serve your chicken and veggies. If you love easy delicious meals that come together in one pan – you are currently in the right spot. My entire family loved this dish and I loved making it. It’s gluten free and has the protein and veggies come together […]
My husband loves meat and I love veggies, so we're both happy with this spicy twist on beefy pot roast. With garbanzo beans, eggplant, honey and mint, it's like something you'd eat at a Marrakesh bazaar. —Catherine Dempsey, Clifton Park, New York
Simple ingredients and easy cooking! This ranch chicken recipe will soon be a staple4
Keto tempura batter is a low-carb alternative to traditional tempura batter, specifically designed for those following a ketogenic diet.
Veggie Scallion Pancakes! If you love scallion pancakes, you'll love this veggie-packed version with shredded carrots, zucchini, and cabbage. Enjoy with a chili garlic dipping sauce.
I shared this recipe on my Instagram a little while back and figured I wanted to share more vegan Filipino recipes on my blog as well since I love Filipino cuisine. We love to use
This Spicy Thai Duck Salad is one of my most-craved dishes. Packed with everything I love about Thai food - spicy, sour, crunchy, savory, a tiny bit sweet. It is one of our favorite date-night at home dishes and I hope you love it as much as we do!
I love building a nourishing bowl for any type of meal. It's a great meal prep option because you can roast veggies, dice veggies, and prepare your
When I say you'll never meet a veggie you like more, I do not choose those words lightly. Want to sneak more of the good stuff into your kids? Or into you? Start here, scout's honor!
There’s no other lunch in my weight-loss arsenal that serves me better than these rolls. They happen to be both raw and vegan, but that isn’t why I love them. It’s their crunchy-meets-creamy texture and the big, bright flavors of carrots, nori, and lemon juice. Another bonus: they are super filling. It’s the kind of midday meal that prevents snacking. And while there is undeniably something health-food-hippie about them, even my husband eats them up.
Korean Fresh Kimchi, Geotjeroi Today I’m sharing a delicious fresh kimchi recipe- we call Geotjeori! Usually, kimchi is a fermented – pungent, sour, intense flavor. But this fresh kimchi recipe…
Hi guys! You all love my noodles recipes so so much, so here is one more for you all!! I mean, who doesn’t love noodles, right? 😉 Actually I prefer…
You are going to love this Sweet Potato Apple Ginger Juice recipe! If you love juicing, this will be a refreshing change!
It literally took us under 30 minutes to make.
Here's one of my favorite nutritional yeast recipes: Easy Vegan Parmesan! It takes just two minutes to mix everything together and I always have some on hand to top pasta and veggie dishes.
I cooked dinner at 3PM last week and none of you batted an eye when I told you. That's why I love you. My future husband, on the other hand? This is one of those things we're going to fight about until we're 86. I mean, in all likelihood, he'll think it's cute and endearing
After I made the hemp seed pesto, I started to experiment with it and this sandwich came up for lunch one day. Every bite I took I kept saying out loud…. “Oh my goodness this is so good!” Obviously, I love it otherwise I wouldn’t be sharing it. SO, yes it is…
How to Make Kimchi Salad
Packed with protein and all the right flavors. Its no secret that spinach pie (aka spanakopita) is my love language. I grew up eating it all the time, homemade, everything from scratch. My family never used store bought phyllo. And it was the bomb to say the least. Indescribable. I, however love to create simple […]
My grandma always relied on canned tomato sauce when cooking, an ingredient that—as a kid—I thought was too plain. Now as an adult, canned tomatoes are one of my pantry staples, but I've learned tricks to make my dishes far more flavorful.
This is an adopted recipe that I have not yet tried. The original chef comments: "I grew up on this wonderful cold soup, and when my Grandmother passed away, the recipe went with her, until I got Anthony Bourdain's wonderful cookbook, "Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook". This is so close to the Vichyssoise I loved, and you will too!"
This tangy cabbage kimchi tastes good with everything, from veggie fried rice to homemade dumplings.
Colcannon is as traditional, as traditional Irish food gets, and for the week that's in it, when the whole world will be going green in our honour, what better thing to do, than serve up some of the finest! I told my granddad I was making this the other day and no sooner was it
I shared this recipe on my Instagram a little while back and figured I wanted to share more vegan Filipino recipes on my blog as well since I love Filipino cuisine. We love to use
We love a big beany bake here, particularly when it involves hispi cabbage. And this one is a pretty perfect midweek dinner.
Delicious and light pancakes by Tina Ujlaki from Exploring Castaway Cuisine. Batter needs to rest for one hour.
It's been a little while since I posted about one of my Fun Finds, but this one leapt out at me from a crowded shelf of old books as if there were roaming klieg lights originating from its jacket! It's a hardbound celebrity cookbook, a 1978 fund-raiser for a rehabilitation center in Hawaii called Habilitat! The center had previously published a (slender by comparison) book of recipes submitted by primarily Hawaiian-based personalities, but this time (Volume II) had opened it up to include stars from the Continental United States. No harm to her in the slightest, but any book that would choose to place Anne Francis' photo on the all-important spine (the part that we see when the book is placed between others) was something I just had to pick up! Anne Francis over Ann-Margret or Mary Tyler Moore? Other show business luminaries, some to be named later, didn't make the jacket at all. I hope you find this as hooty as I did and, who knows, maybe you'll even be compelled to try out one or more of the recipes! Habilitat was (and is) a youth-oriented drug rehabilitation facility, set in a stunning locale with a variety of services and athletic-oriented programs and amenities. In order to compile this book, a number of celebrities were approached to provide their own favorite recipes along with, presumably, a head shot. In some cases, a brief congratulatory quote might also have been provided from the star. In other cases, the compiler might editorialize, always favorably about the dish. Some of the stars who promised to visit Habilitat if they were ever in the area really did do so, including Carroll O'Connor, Marie Windsor and Bob Newhart. The captions on the head shots provided me with several big smiles as I leafed through! The Shangri-La-esque building that housed the organization from 1971 on... ...was later added on to and re-faced with a brighter, cleaner (if a touch blander) look. The organization is still in full operation as we speak (I don't believe we've seen a drop in the need for help in drug rehabilitation in this country lately!) Sadly, I couldn't begin to scan in all of the recipes from all of the celebs. This is a sizable cookbook! I had to make some decisions along the way and do my best. They aren't in any order other than how the items are arranged in the book (appetizers, meats, salads, and so on.) What struck me about this first recipe more than anything was that the author decided to describe Cher Bono (not just Cher!) as “willowy.” Is that the first adjective that comes to your mind?? I love the way Carol Burnett chose to word some of her recipe's instructions. (Thank goodness she admonishes us to wash our hands... I never would have thought of that before diving into a big ol' raw meatloaf!) What would a book supporting drug rehabilitation be without Valley of the Dolls' Neely O'Hara herself, Patty Duke? At the time, she was wed to John Astin and going by the name Patty Duke Astin. I hope you can somehow follow this intensely complicated recipe. Another excruciatingly difficult recipe to follow comes from Richard Anderson of The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman, among many other movies and TV shows. Mr. Anderson smoked like a train, worshipped the sun to an almost ridiculous extent and ate red meat for dinner practically every night, yet he's still kicking today at age eighty-six! June Lockhart (of Lassie and Lost in Space) provides a Yorkshire pudding recipe. I had no clue that this was how this item was made, though I only had it once when I was about eleven! Famed Hollywood Squares panelist Paul Lynde had a lifelong struggle with food (among other things, bless his heart.) He supplied two recipes to the cookbook, including this one (which I suspect could be done in a large crock pot, too.) But does it sound “diet” to anybody?? Not sure... Mr. Burt Reynolds also has a beef stew recipe. I guess compared to this one, Paul Lynde's recipe was lower calorie! (Frying floured beef chuck in bacon grease?!) Tastes change over the years. I cannot imagine anyone I know preparing beef tongue for themselves or a guest. Monty “Let's Make a Deal” Hall's recipe is reprinted (one of very few like this) from another source. I would not touch this with a ten-foot pole, but I am a very finicky eater anyway and also don't like very many ingredients in my food. (One of the three cookbooks in my home is one called “Five Ingredients or Less!”) Here we have former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson. I wonder if she used to whip some of this stuff up for L.B. Johnson when he was in the White House? Note that at the time of this book, Barbara Walters was still appearing with Harry Reasoner as co-host of ABC Evening News, a partnership that was riddled with difficulty and enmity. This same year, she departed the broadcast and later went on to 20/20 and The View. If Anne Meara cooked dishes like this very often, it's a wonder her husband Jerry Stiller is still alive (and that son Ben Stiller wasn't a total tub!) The sad thing is, I sorta want to make this! Country-fried comedienne Judy Canova (mother of Soap's Diana Canova) supplied several recipes for this cookbook. The one shown below made me chuckle because of her remark in the final sentence of the paragraph! Hmmm... I don't know about this recipe of Miss Phyllis Diller's. Sounds really tacky! But maybe, like a lot of other things, it congeals into something wonderful during the baking process. I recall my stepmother once making a stunning pork roast in a slow-cooker, so tender and flavorful, and when I asked her what she did to it, she said "every condiment bottle in the door of the fridge that had hardly anything left in it I emptied onto the roast." !!! Love the choice of photo, though. When you think of Gunsmoke's Festus (and I know you think of him frequently!), does salmon spring quickly to mind? Ha! Corn pone would probably be my first guess for a recipe from him, but, no, we have salmon loaf (which would never pass my lips even if I were on Survivor!) It might have been fun for Tippi Hedren to have supplied a bird recipe like quail or pigeon! Hee hee! Instead, she gives us one for seafood delight. This photo of the Tipster looks more like Melanie Griffith than most of the other ones I can recall seeing (perhaps due to the pale makeup and the hairstyle?) Melanie probably would have benefited from a stay at this rehab center! Former-President Jimmy Carter shocked me by not submitting a peanut recipe, but the one he chose does include “nuts.” Perhaps it's up to the cook to decide which kind? Barnaby Jones/Jed Clampett of The Beverly Hillbillies Buddy Ebson has an egg recipe that is another item I wouldn't go near. I do like omelets, but don't consume any eggs that aren't “done.” If you're into runny yolks, this might be a good recipe to try, perhaps with toast. The name of this dish made me smile. I presume Jeff and Beau Bridges were treated to their fair share of this concoction growing up! You know I love me some Dick Gautier and this head shot of him is dreamy. “A neat dish...” indeed! I can't help chuckling at some of the “recipes” with scintillating titles like “Cloris Leachman's Baked Potato,” though it must be added that she does indeed put a spin on it. It's not just a potato pricked with a fork, rolled in salt and tossed in the oven. This was another head shot that amused me. With apologies in advance to her fans, I have never been able to warm up to Gretchen Wyler and have always found to come off as very self-congratulatory and unnecessarily self-important. My grandmother would have considered Miss Olivia Newton-John's chicken soup recipe to be the height of tackiness! But, hey, it's “easy, cheap and nutritious...” It's interesting to me that in the caption for Judy Lewis, there is no mention at all of her being Loretta Young's daughter. Even though I have since discovered that she had a (primarily daytime soap opera) acting career all her own, I really only ever knew of her as just that... Loretta Young's daughter! NOTHING would get me to try Miss Bea Arthur's dish (and I had to investigate what madrilene even was – never heard of it before!), but I worship the way she looked at this stage of her career. That face and attitude. Love it! I'm sure they didn't mean it in a derisive way, but there's something so amusing about the terminology used to describe Samantha Eggar's part in The Collector (1965) for her caption. I wonder if this tuna salad recipe of Natalie Schafer's is something she developed while stranded on Gilligan's Island for all those years! Good gravy, this seems like a tremendous amount of work for some pancakes! How interesting, too, the use of bacon fat in the recipe. You wouldn't be likely to see that much these days. Incidentally, David Janssen dropped dead from a heart attack at only age forty-eight! (He had also been a very heavy smoker.) We next come to desserts and a battle of the pecan pies. Which one would you make? Dear Abby's seems to be very simple. (And could they have selected/sent a more diminutive photograph?!?!) George Peppard's recipe seems slightly more complex (befitting the man, who was quite complex, too!) I didn't even realize who Suzanne Hunt was until I read her caption. I thought she was generally better known as Suzy Hunt. She was married to Richard Burton directly after his second divorce from Elizabeth Taylor in 1976 and they remained wed until 1982. I liked the final word of Sharon Gless' recipe. Without her advice, I would have missed out. Ha! Her caption is fun, too, though it must be said that in her heyday she really was a vibrant, confident, capable and appealing “type” in most of her roles. At this juncture, Nancy Reagan was billed in her caption not as a former actress, but as the former first lady of California. In just a few years, she would graduate to First Lady of the United States for eight years (and, perhaps, serve Ronnie these Vienna bars in the White House? No, I doubt it!) The final recipe comes from Mr. George Burns and doesn't involve food at all. Perhaps his laid-back, undemanding approach to food (and life?) is one of the things that helped him live to the remarkable age of one-hundred (and most of it with considerably good health!) I wish the same to you. Take care until next time!
This cabbage walnut pasta is an homage to a meal my coworker used to make; it's one of my favorite quick comfort dinners.
I absolutely love pad thai, and making this at home always leaves me reminiscing about trips to Thailand. I made my own vegan fish sauce to use for this recipe and coat the noodles in a deliciously sweet and savory sauce. I made this dish with tofu for protein, added crunch from bean sprouts and peanuts, tang from lime and an extra kick of spice from chili powder!
I was thrilled to find one of my favorite recipes from Whole Foods in the Fort Lauderdale Sun Sentinel online. I think its awfully close to the original which I love. It is such a healthy, refreshing salad, and a light alternative to coleslaw. Make sure to use fresh, crisp cabbage and don't toss with the dressing until right before serving. (Got any suggestions to make it just like my Whole Foods favorite?)
If you like the flavour profile of Kimchi, you’re going to love this Spicy Korean Coleslaw! My quick and easy coleslaw is the perfect side for any Korean-inspired meal like my Korean-Style Barbecue Beef Short Rib Lettuce Wraps, or even as a topping for burgers or sandwiches. It is also a fun way to switch up your usual coleslaw and add some new and exciting flavours to your menu. Your taste buds and your guests will thank you!
There are some days that I don't have the time or energy for a big elaborate dinner. These Pan Seared Veal Cutlets are the fastest entree in my arsenal.
My husband loves meat and I love veggies, so we're both happy with this spicy twist on beefy pot roast. With garbanzo beans, eggplant, honey and mint, it's like something you'd eat at a Marrakesh bazaar. —Catherine Dempsey, Clifton Park, New York
