Showing posts with the label easy

Chocolate Marble Banana Bread

This Chocolate Marbled Banana Bread is sooo easy to make, with no special ingredients, and bursting with flavor.⁣ You can get buy with 3/4 cup sugar but the full cup will yield a …

Summery Zucchini Pasta with Meyer Lemon, Feta and Pinenuts

Raw zucchini, Meyer lemon, feta and pinenut pasta. A perfect summer meal with minimal cooking. Slicing the zucchini thinly and marinating it in lemon juice, garlic, olive oil, s+…

Muhammara roasted red pepper dip

If a beautiful and bright crudités board doesn’t put a smile on your face, I don’t know what will. As much as I love cheese, I find a crudité board makes more sense before dinner.…

Farro salad with beets, veggies, nuts, and a creamy green herb dressing

I love making versions of this farro salad. Lately I’ve been putting beets in it (red or gold) but you could leave them out if beets aren’t your thing! It’s full of veggies, nuts …

Fattoush Salad

Fattoush is a Northern Lebanese salad made with leftover pita, tomatoes, herbs, cucumber and other vegetables. It started as a way for people to use pita scraps so they didn’t go …

Classic Baked Mac n Cheese

Classic Baked Mac n Cheese. This makes a BIG batch so it’s perfect for sharing with a neighbor or freezing half for later. My fav pasta shape for this is cavatappi, a curly tube, …

Pecan, Almond and Coconut Granola with Cardamom and Ginger

Don’t you love gifts you can eat?! Yesterday I was reminded about this homemade granola, which makes a great gift. Pour some into mason jars, add a bow and a label and you’re set.…

Ginger, Garlic and Sesame Meatballs with Mint and Lime

These ginger, garlic and sesame grilled meatballs are flavor bombs full of mint, ginger, garlic, chilies, scallions, sesame and lime. Maybe the best part about them is that you ca…

Moroccan Fish Stew with Citrus, Chickpeas and Olives

Spice things up with this Moroccan fish stew! It has a delicious, brothy tomato base filled with peppers, citrus, olives and chickpeas. You can use halibut, cod, Chilean sea bass …

Cauliflower Soup

This creamy and cozy cauliflower soup only has 5 ingredients! The recipe will work for most vegetables - so if you don’t have a cauliflower you could make it with carrots or sweet…

Roast Delicata Squash with Crispy Sage and Marcona Almonds

Roast Delicata Squash with Crispy SageHere’s a fall and winter side dish that will make (almost?) everyone happy and isn’t loaded with cream and butter (a few sides on the lighter…

Classic Apple Crisp

An apple crisp on a cozy fall day is pretty close to perfection. It would even be great at thanksgiving if you don’t want to mess around with pie crusts. I use 1/2 tart apples lik…

Creamy Mushroom Soup

Cozy mushroom soup with thick cut bacon crutons! This is such an easy soup and you can really make it fun with garnishes. Regular old button mushrooms work great but you can add s…

Old Fashioned Apple Cake

This is my all time favorite apple cake. It's easy to make (one bowl) and the flavor is next level - like caramel apples. It's great plain as a snack cake and even better …

Greek Salad

I forgot how much I love a good Greek salad! It’s simple, healthy and so delicious. Did you know a traditional Greek salad (horiatiki) doesn’t have lettuce??It’s just tomatoes, be…

Eggplant Parm

This is a summery, light eggplant Parm more that's much more like the traditional Italian version than the fried version you see in Italian-American restaurants (w…

Grilled Corn Salad with Peaches and Arugula

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…

Quick Plum Jam

Did you know you can make jam in about 30 minutes and control the amount of sugar that goes in it? With less sugar it won’t be quite as thick but it’s still delicious on toast, in…

Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce

Vietnamese Spring Rolls with Peanut Sauce are delicious, healthy, great to eat when it's hot out, and not that hard to make. It’s kind of like rolling a sticky burrito.... The…

Thai Cabbage Slaw with Peanuts

I'm obsessed with this easy, bright, Thai dressed, no mayo or oil slaw. 
Ingredients:
1/2 head red cabbage, sliced thinly with a knife or mandolin 1 carrot, peeled and julienned …