Easy Family Recipes
Rosewater Limeade is one of my favorite drinks to make in the summer. The rosewater elevates the simple inexpensive lime and sugar drink into something elegant. Limeade with Rosewater I make my Rosewater Limeade recipe a little heavier on the limes than many homemade limeade recipes. This enables the lime flavor to hold strong against rapidly melting ice in the summer heat. The addition of rosewater in the recipe smooths out the rough edges of the puckery lime a bit, so it is Continue Reading
These low-carb Shrimp & Summer Squash Spring Rolls are a refreshing summer dish perfect for a light meal or appetizer course. I have to admit it, the catalyst of this recipe was a junky piece of kitchen equipment. There I was this afternoon with two lovely little yellow summer squash. I had it in my mind to slice them into ribbons on my mandolin and make them into some sort of a salad. The mandolin is old and absolutely craptastic, so it was sort of bruising the squash, more than Continue Reading
Do you need an easy lentil recipe? This simple stewed lentils recipe is a flavorful vegetarian meal on it's own, but pairs nicely with grilled meat and heartier fish like salmon as a side dish. It is also flexible, in that, a few more vegetables or some meat could easily be added to the simmering pot, if you like (carrots, spinach, skinless chicken thighs, sausage or stew beef would be good choices). It is quite inexpensive to prepare, and this easy lentil recipe is packed with nutrition too Continue Reading
I created this Greek Chicken and Rice Cake Salad recipe as part of the "Rice Cake Double Take" challenge, to celebrate the addition of three new rice cake flavors from Lundberg Family Farms. Rice cakes bring visions of 80's aerobics chicks chomping on tasteless Styrofoam disks for most of us (including me), so when the box arrived and found the secret ingredient to be a choice of either Wallaby Organic's Greek yogurt or sour cream, I was a bit "Befuzzled". I opened one of the rice cake Continue Reading
This Asian Grilled Chicken Drumsticks recipe is a great way to put a delicious twist on inexpensive chicken drumsticks this grilling season. I find the sweet and salty Asian chicken marinade adds incredible flavor as well as helping the chicken maintain moisture. The chicken drumsticks marinated in this are not just flavorful, but tender and juicy too! This recipe uses bone-in chicken for extra flavor and juiciness. Directions are included for air fryer and baked chicken drumsticks in this Continue Reading
These Grilled Shrimp & Corn Tacos were the result of incorporating my recent Grilled Corn & Tomato Salad recipe into shrimp tacos. Fresh shrimp and sweet corn are a perfect pair. They are both mildly sweet and while they pick up the flavors around them, do have wonderful flavor and texture of their own. I used a couple arugula leaves at bottom of my freshly grill taco shells, topped generously with the corn salad, sprinkled with sprinkled Queso Fresco (got that idea from Continue Reading
