A healthy weeknight home cooked meal your family will love? You got this. Long grain rice medley with peas, carrots, and a tangy, herbal chimichurri is the perfect accompaniment to salmon, chicken, or a big green salad.
Pan-fried, curry-rubbed tofu and rice round out this Thai Coconut Curry Stew — a warming, comfort food meal that’s perfectly spiced with savory curry, and Thai flavors like ginger, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaves.
An easy weeknight meal that tastes like you spent hours on it! Smoked turkey sausage tortellini with sauteed vegetables in a quick-but-luscious garlic sauce is a real family pleaser.
Shrimp perloo is a popular Lowcountry shrimp and rice dish made extra yummy with a quick, homemade shrimp stock and rice sauteed in bacon fat.
A fun fusion of the Italian and Mexican favorites: black beans and vegetables in a savory enchilada sauce, spooned into XXL pasta shells. Stuffed pasta shells are da bomb!
The perfect dish to bring to picnics, potlucks, grill-outs — all your summer gatherings. This vegetable-loaded tortellini salad with homemade buttermilk dill dressing is an easy weeknight meal, too!
It’s Spring, and time for lighter, brighter soups! Shrimp shiitake curry soup is quick, so easy, and full of savory Thai flavors with healthy mushrooms, ginger, and lemongrass.
Dinner is a slam dunk when you cook up a colorful, veggie-loaded Mexican Pasta Bake, made extra flavorful with lots of chorizo and a creamy red sauce.
Hearty Italian flavors highlight this comforting chicken parmesan soup, with lots of grated Parmigiano Reggiano and melty fresh mozzarella cheese. Super easy, too – 30 minutes from stove to table.
The classic American comfort food gets a super fun preparation: baked into a sliceable pie stuffed with cheese and sweetly savory caramelized onions. Everyone will love spaghetti pie!
Creole-style Jambalaya soup is simmered in homemade-in-the-pot chicken broth and tomato sauce. Make it on Sunday and serve on Tuesday – it’ll be even better! One of the most filling soups in my soup arsenal.
No need to buy expensive bottles of peanut sauce that always work their way to the back of the fridge. Homemade is best! Lots of peanutty flavors going on in these Thai-inspired peanut soba noodles. The perfect food in a bowl.
Use up those leftover grains by topping them with loads of beautiful, crisp, guacamole veggies. Makes a healthy, super flavorful lunch!
Fresh corn, straight from the cob, gives a pleasant sweetness to traditional risotto.
I’d like to end the year (or begin the year, depending on when you read this post) with some thoughts on cooking. 2014 saw the …
Smoky tempeh with fresh vegetables and sprouts over rice and topped with an egg makes for a healthy, delicious winter meal.
Deconstructed chicken enchiladas served over rice. Easy (and super fast when made with leftover chicken and rice) weeknight meal, full of comforting Mexican flavors.
How did something so stinky and moldy and veiny as a chunk of blue cheese end up being such a prized ingredient? And I really …