Adding spices to your meal is a great way to add tons of flavor to a dish without adding calories. Because you need so little of the spice to enhance a dish, it's a pretty cost-effective way to add … [Read more...]
Shrimp Fried Rice
This dish for Shrimp Fried Rice is an attempt to make a takeout favorite a bit healthier. To do so, Cooking Light cut the amount of rice, added a bunch of veggies, and cut out some of the salt. So … [Read more...]
Grilled Salmon and Brown Butter Couscous
Salmon and couscous were just made for each other, don't you think? They are also the perfect choices for a weeknight meal, you're sure to get food on the table in no time. Cooking Light's latest … [Read more...]
Crispy Flounder and Roasted Tomatoes
These Lipman Tomatoes just keep on giving! This time around, I used their gorgeous cherry tomatoes. Cooking Light had a wonderful recipe in their most recent issue for Crispy Flounder and Roasted … [Read more...]
Kara Age Scallop Salad with Honey Lime Dressing
A while back, I received a box of Kikkoman Kara-Age Soy-Ginger Seasoned Coating Mix and make these wonderful Kara-Age Popcorn Shrimp. The box came with two bags of Kara-Age seasoning and I've been … [Read more...]
Grilled Striped Bass with Bacon Vinaigrette Red Smashed Potatoes and Sauteed Butter Thyme Mushrooms
Grilled Striped Bass with Bacon Vinaigrette Red Smashed Potatoes and Sauteed Butter Thyme Mushrooms. Whew. By the time you say the title of this post you could have cooked most of this meal. Fish is a … [Read more...]
Creamy Spring Pasta
I was talking to my mom on the phone earlier this week and she mentioned she was making a creamy pasta with peas (her favorite) for dinner. Naturally, I had some taste bud jealousy and decided that I … [Read more...]
Garlicky Meatball Pasta with Avocado-Butter Lettuce Salad
Despite having an Italian mother, I have never made meatballs before. I'm almost embarrassed to admit it. Whelp, at the age of 26, I believe it is time to finally get my hands dirty and make some … [Read more...]
Pecan Crusted Halibut with Roasted Asparagus and Potatoes
I have a confession. Despite cooking most nights a week (and making leaps and bounds over the past year and a half as to what I am able to cook) I still struggle to pull an entire meal together at one … [Read more...]
Penne with Bacon Vodka Sauce
Yes, you read that title correctly. Penne with Bacon Vodka Sauce. I have wanted to make some recipes using Bakon Vodka ever since I heard of its existence. My mind immediately went to Bloody Mary's … [Read more...]
Crispy Herbed Shrimp with Roasted Asparagus and Tomatoes
Have you ever opened up a food magazine, and have decided by a photo only that you want, no need, to make that recipe? I didn't even look at the title, or read the ingredients, before I had earmarked … [Read more...]
Artichoke, Spinach, and Feta Stuffed Shells
I have been making a bunch of freezer-friendly meals lately. You never know when you will come home and just be too exhausted to cook, and frozen meals can really save the night. This one also happens … [Read more...]
Chunky Vegetarian Chili
I love chili, and with the warm winter we've been having, I didn't have nearly enough of it. So before spring is truly here, I wanted to make another batch. This meatless chili has so many different … [Read more...]
Reuben with Homemade Sauerkraut
What do you do with left over Corned Beef and Cabbage? Make Reubens of course! Because we still had some of the Creamy Horseradish Dijon sauce from the Corned Beef and Cabbage, I substituted that … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Corned Beef and Cabbage
St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner, which means Americans nationwide are gearing up for a corned beef and cabbage feast. Despite being Irish-American myself, I've never eaten this St. … [Read more...]