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Walnut Crusted Salmon with Guinness Reduction

Walnut Crusted Salmon with Guinness Reduction is an easy dinner to make, yet is rather impressive. Wow your guests without breaking a sweat. This Guinness Salmon recipe was my lunch one day last week (Oh yes, I like to spoil myself). I had just picked up a six-pack of Guinness Stout that morning, in preparation for creating some St. Patrick's Day recipes & well, I was hungry. I rarely eat beef, the standard protein match for this beer, so I chose salmon, one of the few seafoods that Continue Reading

Bailey's Pound Cake - Irish Cream Dessert

This Bailey's Irish Cream Pound Cake has quite a kick! The creamy cake is perfect for celebrating. This Bailey's Pound Cake recipe is a revolt against all the "busy" St. Patrick's Day desserts out there right now. Don't get me wrong, I love those cute desserts & combining different flavors or spirits into a recipe is great fun. Here I just wanted to celebrate a single ingredient... Irish cream liqueur and a simple pound cake seemed a good way to go. I wanted the flavor of the Bailey's Continue Reading

Campanelle Pasta with Sausage and Broccoli Rabe

This broccoli rabe and sausage pasta recipe is pretty quick to make, since much of the prep work can be done during the cooking process. Most of us that cook a lot, tend to do this anyway, but with this particular recipe featuring campanelle pasta it seems to time out just right. I used chicken sausage in the recipe, but feel free to use a pork Italian sausage if you prefer. Broccoli Rabe and Sausage Pasta It all started this morning, I was rifling through the vegetable drawer in my Continue Reading

Irish Colcannon Recipe, Healthy St. Patrick's Day Food!

A colcannon recipe, for a healthy Saint Patrick's day. Colcannon is an Irish staple, heck they love it so much, there's even a traditional Gaelic song about it. Though I'm not Irish myself, I don't wait around until St. Patrick's day rolls around to enjoy this simple but satisfying dish. Colcannon is really just mashed potatoes with kale or cabbage mixed in, but it's one of those concoctions where the sum is equal to more than the parts. I prefer the kale version, so that is what I am Continue Reading

Chicken, Sweet Onion & Kale Salad with Kamut

This Chicken and Kale Salad was my lunch yesterday. Sweet onions and Kamut (an ancient strain of wheat, Yes, I have a preference in wheat berries, and this is it), round out the flavor and texture of the plate, while providing healthy complex carbohydrates. I already had Kamut precooked in my fridge, so this was a quick hot salad to toss together. I guess you could call it a stir fry it you prefer, but I don't prefer ;) I noshed this plate right down, the tangy dressing was light enough Continue Reading

Peanut Butter-Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe (gluten-free)

Tonight, after two days of shoveling snow, I decided to reward myself with a small batch of cookies. Of course, I didn't want to blow my whole diet or eat something terribly unhealthy, so I tossed together this easy gluten-free cookie recipe. It ended out making 10 cookies, using a 2 tbs size scoop. With all the chewy oatmeal in them, along with protein from the peanut butter & egg, I was quite satisfied with two. I even got my chocolate fix to boot. I tried to keep these pretty Continue Reading