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Asian Cucumber Salad

This easy Asian cucumber salad recipe makes a absolutely delicious refreshing cold side dish. The cool cucumber salad has a mildly sweet and spicy sesame dressing and is tossed with onions and sesame seeds. It is also called Sunomono, Japanese cucumber salad and Smashed cucumber salad. The crisp cucumber onion salad not only goes great with Asian inspired dishes, but also makes a great combo with BBQ meats or all sorts of sandwiches. While it is far less salty and sour than pickles, it can Continue Reading

Crock Pot Chicken Alfredo Recipe

Delicious creamy Crock Pot Chicken Alfredo will immediately become a family favorite dinner recipe. This slow cooker version of the classic Italian comfort food dish ensures dinner will be hot and ready at meal time. The slow cooker chicken alfredo features pasta cooked in a scratch made creamy alfredo sauce from heavy cream and Parmesan cheese with shredded chicken breasts. Why Make Chicken Alfredo Pasta in the Slow Cooker? Chicken Alfredo is a relatively quick dish to make but a Continue Reading

Puff Pastry Pizza with Vegetables

This puff pastry pizza recipe is easy to prepare and a fun twist on traditional pizza. The vegetarian puffed pastry pizza is a great main dish for pizza night or serve as a delicious and easy appetizer. The puff pastry dough is covered with pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese and veggie pizza toppings. Of course you can swap the toppings you put on the puff pastry crust a bit. Lean meats are also a good choice if not vegetarian. Puff Pastry as Pizza Crust Using pastry for making pizza is a Continue Reading

Italian Ricotta Pie Recipe

Sweet ricotta pie is among the most popular Italian desserts, particularly for serving at Easter, so much so that it is often called Easter Ricotta Pie or even simply Easter Pie. The delicious pie is made with a sweet cookie-like crust called Pasta Frolla, which is of course the vessel for the creamy ricotta filling. I did not grow up with Ricotta cheese pie as a child. I learned to love the Italian dessert working in Italian restaurants. Not all had the classic sweet pie dough, so after Continue Reading

Mongolian Beef Recipe

This Mongolian Beef recipe is my take on the popular and absolutely delicious stir fry dish like you can get at P. F. Chang's restaurant or your local Chinese takeout. The tender beef stir fry recipe is in a savory and sweet brown sugar and soy sauce with green onion slices. Try your hand at making your own Mongolian Beef stir fry at home. The Mongolian sauce is made with common pantry ingredients, no specialty sauces in this version of the recipe. Save money and ensure there is no MSG in Continue Reading