Everything You Want to Eat

I love making grain salads full of veggies, nuts and herbs to keep in the fridge for quick meals. I also like to keep my dressings super simple: the juice of 1 or 2 lemons, somet…

This grilled corn salad with peaches, arugula, tomatoes, hatch chili and lime is about as summery as salad gets.... Ingredients:5 ears corn, shuckedone hatch chili or jalapeño…

You can serve these meatballs with pasta, as an hors d’oeuvre, or even as a first course with a little salad or with marinara dipping sauce and bread (a deconstructed meatball sa…

One of my favorite dinners: Grilled lamb chops over Israeli Couscous with dried cherries, almonds and pomegranate molasses. I love the flavors in this middle eastern/Indian spice…

This recipe is from an old cooking notebook of mine that I have been scouring for new/old recipes to share. The first time I made it this month (it had been at least a decade) I d…

People usually think of risotto as a fancy restaurant dish but it’s easy to make at home and a great dish to have in your repertoire. The only special thing you need to buy is the…

So-Cal Turkey Chili with ALL the fixings! This healthy chili is packed with protein, fiber and veggies. It won a chili cook off in Budapest when I cooked at the US Embassy and was…

This pumpkin bread is pretty much the same as my pumpkin muffin recipe but I double the sugar to make sure it stays moist in loaf form. I usually try to get away with less sugar,…

I made these coconut panna cottas with mango-lime purée for a dinner party the other night and they were so easy (only 5 ingredients) and delicious. The hardest part is waiting fo…