Sharing my favorite healthy recipes!
My favorite childhood meal – Slumgulion. This is by far my favorite dinner growing up. My mom made this many times and when I knew it was on the menu – I couldn’t wait for dinner! Luckily my family has not minded me making this …
For the first year – my garden is producing so many vegetables – this homemade pasta sauce is so great and fresh! This is the 3rd year I’ve had a garden in my backyard – with so/so success. This year however, with lessons learned from …
Have a bunch of garden veggies that need to be used up? This is my go to summer easy pasta salad. You can customize it based on whatever you have on hand! I’m on Weight Watchers – blue plan – this comes in at 8 …
This one skillet pasta dinner has been one of my most popular posts on Instagram. It was shared on Instagram’s main page and currently has over 45k views! This is one of my favorite weeknight dinners – ready in 20 minutes! I pretty much make …
Ingredients 1 package cheese tortellini 2 carrots 1/4 red onion 1 cup edamame 2 stalks celery 1 tsp. Italian seasoning salt and pepper Few slices deli salami, chopped 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup Paul Newman’s Light Balsamic Vinagrette There are so many variations to this. …
I love shopping Trader Joe’s . I am lucky to have one in my town, but before that I would drive 30 minutes to the closest one to my house. We affectionately call it “Chicken Joe’s” because when my daughter was little- that’s what she …
Before I share my creamy macaroni and cheese recipe (which I believe will become a regular in your dinner rotations), I wanted to answer some questions about the exercises I am doing. I can’t believe the weekend is almost here! The week went by so …
Yet another version of macaroni and cheese! I’ve posted two macroni and cheese recipes before. The first one is your basic ham macaroni and cheese recipe and the second one was a stove top version from Cook’s Illustrated which is fantastic. So last night I …
I love mac and cheese! But the way I make it you can eat it all the time and still stick to your healthy eating plan. The base of this recipe I got from a Healthy Choice recipe years ago and you can add different …
A few weeks ago my Pyrex 13×9 inch glass dish shattered on top of my stove. I had cooked something on the burner and I knew the burner was hot, but I figured you could bake something in the glass dish, so it could withstand …
I kept wondering this question when I am at the store. I make homemade pasta sauce pretty much every week. Sometimes I buy whole tomatoes, sometimes pureed, sometimes crushed, why so many varieties, and what should you buy for what you are making? So, I …
Sargento Cheese has been nice enough to offer 3 of my readers a coupon to try any Sargento cheese they offer for free (up to a $4.29 value!) If you aren’t aware, Sargento offers new reduced sodium cheeses as well. One thing I will NOT …
OK, I have to start with my tomato!!! Last year for Mother’s Day, my husband got me 2 Topsy Turvy Tomato planters. Granted it was cooler last summer, but I kind of didn’t keep on top of them and I hung them too high, so …
My twin sister always makes fun of me because I make pasta so much. But with so many different ways to make it, you can never get tired of it. When I had my first apartment, I think I made pasta at least 4 nights …
A few weeks ago I was watching Unwrapped on Food TV because they were profiling spicy foods. One of the recipes they made was from the Cheesecake Factory. I’ve only been to one once in my life, but the recipe looked incredible. It’s actually one …
I am a member of Slow Food, which tries to bring people back to the table with the freshest foods, cooking with real ingredients, the more it comes from the earth, the better! Recently I joined that Group on Linked-In and a fellow member Meredith …
Most of my regular readers already know about Rouxbe Cooking School, but for those who don’t, it’s an on-line cooking school where you can learn about so many things (300 classes and counting)! The best part, you can do it from home, in your own …
I tried to post this earlier, but the video didn’t work, so I am trying it again! So, on to this week’s video from Rouxbe Cooking School. Rouxbe Cooking School is a new Online Cooking School. Why should you join Rouxbe Cooking School? Here’s why …
My eating has kind of been all over the place for the last 10 days or so. Since my husband has a broken jaw and his teeth have been wired shut, my dinners have been super easy and quick. He can only eat soups that …
As part of Food Buzz’s taste testers program, I was sent 2 new flavors of sauces. One was arrabiata sauce which is a spicy version of pasta sauce and the other one was a cheese rosa sauce. Each one was very good, however the cheese …
I somehow got on the mailing list for Williams-Sonoma and if I ever win the lottery, I would like to have every pot, pan, knife and kitchen gadget they sell! Their catalog is gorgeous, AND they throw in a few recipes too! Bolognese Sauce is …
I had no idea what to make for dinner last night. I started to look in my freezer, in the pantry, on the shelf, in the fridge. I was stumped! But then I saw that I had ricotta cheese I hadn’t used yet, and not …
I make macaroni and cheese at least 2 or 3 times a month. I usually switch up the cheese, add ham, change the pasta type just to keep it interesting. This version is by far the best one I’ve had in a long time. It …
Grub Street New York compiled a list of the TOP 20 chef empires. These chefs were scored based on how many restaurants they owned, TV shows, cookbooks, gadgets, etc…they are involved in. I’ve had so much fun visiting these sites and learning about chefs I …
I decided to make this pasta dish for a few reasons. One, is since I make pasta every week, I was looking to switch things up a little, and secondly, I chose a dish with an ingredient that my husband loves which is capers. Since …
