Meatballs

Meatballs bare one of my favorite meal prep items. You can make these with beef, turkey, chicken, pork or a combination. My preferences for the meats are a ground 85% sirloin and …

Antipasti Chopped Salad

🇮🇹Ever just want salad for dinner? Enter my favorite antipasti chopped salad. The pictures salad is lacking olives because I was all out - I highly recommend customizing it to y…

Grilled lamb chops with couscous

These grilled lamb chops look impressive but take minimal effort. They’re dusted with a warm Middle Eastern spice mix called Baharat and I love serving them over this couscous wit…

Pear Almond Tart

This delicious tart is perfect for fall or winter.You will need:
•1 tart shell (recipe below)
•Frangipan almond filling (recipe below)
•3-4 pears - Bartlett, Bosc, Anjou, Starkrimson…

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+…

Crab Cakes

Crab cakes not only taste great but they can be a party appetizer, a first course or a main course. I keep them pretty simple - mainly jumbo lump crab meat. This recipe makes abou…

Beet, mushroom, fennel and Parmesan salad.

This is one of the many salads I made up while cooking in Tuscany and it was a big hit so I’ve redone it and written everything down. Large button mushrooms are easier to slice, b…