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Sheet Pan Chicken with Baby Potatoes and Herb Butter
Sheet Pan Chicken with Baby Potatoes and Herb Butter School is back in session and you know what we need: recipes for an easy weeknight dinner the entire family will love. This sheet pan chicken with baby potatoes and herb butter is super flavorful, filling, and could not be easier. Best of all, it comes together […]
Easy Summer Recipe: Salade Niçoise with Tuna
Easy French Summer Recipe: Salade Niçoise with Tuna Salade Nicoise with Tuna is a classic French salad and the perfect summer dish: light, versatile, and full of flavor. Best of all, it doesn’t involve turning on the oven or any significant cooking time on a hot day. With tender new potatoes, niçoise olives or salty […]
Easy 30 Minute One Pan Caprese Chicken
Easy One Pan Caprese Chicken Easy 30 Minute One Pan Caprese Chicken is the perfect easy dinner recipe. Is it accessible enough for a beginner? This is a great recipe for beginners. There are very few ingredients and no special techniques. Is it quick enough to make on busy weeknights? That’s the best part: this recipe is ready in less […]
Shrimp Scampi
Restaurant Quality Shrimp Scampi at Home Seafood is my favorite food. I’m not sure I have ever eaten a seafood dish I didn’t like. As a kid, I would eat some fairly terrible seafood TV dinner on Friday night and I could not wait! In most other ways I was a really picky eater, but […]
Beef with Broccoli
Saving Money with Homemade Beef with Broccoli There is a super good Chinese restaurant in my town. Their food is absolutely delicious. The best way I can describe it is, “clean.” Do you know what I’m going for here? Not oily. Crisp, fresh. Also? Very expensive – like $70 for three Chinese restaurant staples. You […]
Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes
Summer Produce: Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes The end of summer – and my vacation – is rapidly approaching. I can’t believe I am already going back to school on Monday! One thing that isn’t ending, though, is a supply of farm fresh produce. Yesterday a guest brought us a bunch of cherry tomatoes and basil […]
Shrimp Fried Rice
Fake Takeout: Shrimp Fried Rice I don’t like to go out. If the pandemic taught me anything, it’s just how much I love staying home. While other people were discovering cooking and baking and crafts like they had just been invented, I was able to hunker down into things I’ve been doing since I’m little. […]
Italian Skillet Dinner
Cooking Sort of Italian with an Italian Skillet Dinner Have we ever discussed how I found out I am part Italian? I can’t remember. My dad, retired and bored, decided to look into our background. His parents were pretty easy. Almost everyone in his family is Irish with one Native American grandfather from Canada. Simple. […]
Mexican Pizza Quesadilla
Is it a Pizza or a Quesadilla? It’s a Mexican Pizza Quesadilla! Can something be both a pizza and a quesadilla at the same time? It is, of course, a deep philosophical question, one for the ages. And yes, I have decided – because I am wise – a pizza can be a quesadilla. Just […]
Baked Feta Pasta
Baked Feta Pasta – Without the TikTok I love feta cheese and tomatoes and red onions, so making this baked feta pasta seemed like a no-brainer. Apparently it was a thing on TikTok? The only thing I know about TikTok is that it has influenced my students to do quite a few things I would […]