Does your family do a Friday night or Game Day Pizza Party? It’s a fun way to end a hectic week and have an all-ages party to welcome the weekend. Make our buy pizza dough, have a spread of all the fixin’s and get everyone in the kitchen making their own pizza. I do this […]
Heart Healthy
Winning Quinoa Recipes
As a big fan of quinoa and an advocate of sustainability, fair trade and supporting local farmers, I wanted to take this opportunity to share with you the winners of Alter Eco’s Quinoa Recipe Contest. To celebrate the International Year of Quinoa (who knew!), Alter Eco invited aspiring chefs from across the country to share their […]
FigFest and Ten 5-Minute Fig Recipes
When is Fig Season? To me, figs have always signaled the beginning of my favorite season: Fall. Growing up in the Midwest, it was as if Mother Nature rewarded our survival of the searing heat of August with her most sensuous fruit, the fig. But my fall=fig perception is a result of geographic undesirability. In […]
Barbecues and Tailgate Parties: Hatch Fever Turkey Burger
Labor Day weekend has evolved into so much more than a celebration of the contributions of American workers. It signals the confluence of several all-American rites: the end of summer, the beginning of a new school year, harvest season and, for avid sports fans, it is where the best of both worlds collide: baseball and […]
Hatch Chiles Morning, Noon, and Night
Hatch Chiles are all the rage! Seriously, you can find a delicious way to eat them, for breakfast, lunch or dinner – and, if you haven’t tried them, you simply must experience them while you can. The season for these unique tasting chiles named from the original growing area in Hatch, New Mexico is short […]
Purple Power: Eggplant, Hatch Chile and Roasted Tomatoes
Eat the colors of the rainbow, super foods are not limited to green, yellow, orange, and red. But also, the cooler colors of the rainbow: blue and purple. Blueberries are loaded with antioxidants and the same compounds that put blueberries on the healthy map as a superfood are what make make purple vegetables like eggplant […]
House Special Teriyaki Chicken Yakisoba
Why so special? It’s Low Carb, Low Sodium, Gluten Free, Dairy Free, Soy Free and, even after meeting all these special dietary considerations, this quintessential Japanese dish remains deliciously satisfying, has lots of nutritious vegetables and the grilled chicken smacks of sweet, sticky teriyaki flavor. Husband and Kid-Approved. With my husband’s strict sodium restriction, we […]
Obsessed with Chiles: Quinoa Stuffed Chile Rellenos
My obsession with chile rellenos lives on – it is how I measure every Mexican, Tex-Mex, or Southwestern restaurant that offers the dish on their menu, and if they don’t – shame on them! When I return from a trip, within a day or two my car finds its way to Great Mex in Costa […]
Winning Dessert from the #DoleCookoff
Last week I posted the Alice Phillip’s Harissa Veal Meatball-Fruit Kabobs – the winner of the 5th Annual Dole California Cook-Off and promised to share the recipe for the flavor packed, perfectly summery tropical fruit and berry sticky rice dessert from Carmell Childs, one of the three finalists. Carmell didn’t walk away with the grand […]
Grill a Winner for the 4th: Harissa Veal Meatball Fruit Kabobs
What’s grilling at your 4th of July party this year? I suggest you pass on the burgers and hot dogs and show your adventurous side with these deliciously exotic Harissa Veal Meatball Fruit Kabobs – the winner in this weekend’s Dole Foods 5th Annual California Cookoff in Los Angeles. Translation: a winner for Dole is […]