Easy Family Recipes
This is the best pumpkin cake you will ever make! It has a scrumptious caramel glaze and is topped with candied pumpkin seeds. You can't beat it. The Best Pumpkin Cake Recipe This Pumpkin Cake with Caramel Glaze and Candied Pumpkin Seeds is moist sweet and wholesome. It makes a nice festive fall presentation, without fussy decoration. Perfect for most occasions. It's made with oatmeal and molasses, so it's sweet with a deep flavor profile. A Healthy and Sweet Pumpkin Continue Reading
Prosciutto Garlic and Pecan Quinoa is an easy satisfying gluten-free dish. I am always coming up with new quinoa recipes. It is a very popular ingredient around here. A friend came over right as I was photographing this Prosciutto Garlic and Pecan Quinoa, and he loves the stuff, so he got to eat the "subject". This easy quinoa recipe is flavorful enough to serve as an entree on it's own, yet subtle enough to make a good side dish, and not clash with the main entree. It features the Continue Reading
Szechuan Chicken Tacos are a delicious fusion of Mexican and Chinese dishes. They are packed with flavor and very satisfying! I had been eyeing the Kung Pao Chicken Tacos featured in Cooking Light recently, and was planning to try making them eventually. Today, I had a serious craving for spicy Asian, so it seemed the perfect time to try making this food truck inspired taco recipe. I looked at the photos and recipe, to see what I needed to pick up at the market to make it happen, and decided Continue Reading
Mix up dinner tonight with this fun Fish & Chips on-a-stick recipe! Here in Southern New England fish & Chips on Wednesdays and Fridays are sort of a tradition (Why those two days in particular, I really don't know). The problem is most of the time families get this meal as take-out, and by the time everyone gets to eat it... they are often greeted with limp, greasy soggy food, and if someone has food allergies they may be left out completely. Here, with the help of some frozen Continue Reading
Looking for a gruesome yet healthy Halloween snack to give the kids this year? Eye of Newt Pudding is just the thing to creep them out. This is actually just a simple chia seed pudding, which is a particularly popular dessert for those on raw food diets, as well as many other health conscious people. Great to make with children, since it doesn't even require any cooking, just mix it up and let the seeds swell up overnight. I presented it in a vintage vaseline glass dessert dish, but small Continue Reading
Pineapple Ribs may just be the perfect summer food! These pork ribs are slathered in a luscious pineapple BBQ sauce and finished on the grill after slow roasting in the oven. Pineapple Ribs It is tailgating season, the perfect time to throw some ribs on the grill. This Pineapple spare ribs recipe with Pineapple BBQ Sauce is perfect for entertaining. Slow roast the ribs prior to game day, then baste em' up and get a nice char from the grill. The wait to serve them is short, but you get Continue Reading
