Easy Family Recipes
A delicious simple Italian Wheat Bulgur Salad that works as a side with a wide array of entrees and is even well suited as a light meal. Cracked wheat salad is nutritious and easy to make. As part of my healthy eating changes, I have frequently been preparing wheat bulgur, with vegetables. This Italian Bulgur Wheat Salad Recipe is similar to tabuoli, but with a focus on the popular flavors of Italy. Variations on the Recipe Some add-ins to this tasty salad you should Continue Reading
Lemon balm is an under utilized herb in the kitchen. It has a relatively mild flavor, but lovely lemony perfume to it, which is perfect for infusing into seafood, poultry and pork. It is an easy to grow and attractive herb, which is readily available at most plant nurseries. Many of you may have it in your garden already. Later in the season, when the leaves are large, I sometimes take a few of them and wrap a piece of fish in them, then put the packet directly on a low grill. Here, as it Continue Reading
If you are a regular reader, you know I have been experimenting with quinoa (keen-wah) a great deal lately. It has quite an impressive nutritional profile, and I have enjoyed the challenge of creating recipes featuring it. For each quinoa recipe that makes it on the blog, several concoctions did not. While easy to cook, it can be a little tricky to use in recipes, but once you become accustomed to preparing meals with quinoa, you will be glad you did. This Asian Salmon Green Bean and Quinoa Continue Reading
These roasted root vegetables are coated in a delicious garlic cornmeal coating that not only adds flavor, but texture to the veggies. This is helpful with the roots that don't crisp up like oven fried potatoes do. These roasted root vegetables were inspired by the latest issue of Cooking Light, which included a feature with popular meals "made over" to have just half the calories of their more traditional counterparts. One of the dishes included a lightened up version of Steak Frites, called Continue Reading
Zucchini Ribbons and Pappardelle with Garlic Cannellini Bean Sauce is a hearty vegetarian dish perfect after a busy day. Just in case you are not familiar with this particular pasta, pappardelle is an extra wide variety of fettuccine (my daughter's favorite pasta). Normally, I would prepare a simple butter or cream sauce for Pappardelle, but I wanted something healthier, but still sort of creamy this time around. After scouring the pantry, I decided that mashed cannellini beans would Continue Reading
Maple Mustard Salmon is one of my favorite grilling recipes. I came up with the recipe recently, after getting a great deal on some lovely wild Sockeye salmon. The marinate/glaze is a very easy 1-1-1 mixture, so it is simple to adjust it for large or small quantities. You are likely to come back to this marinating glaze for grilling other seafood or white meats, as well. Be careful about substitutions in this one. Whole grain Dijon mustard is not as pungent or vinegary as other Continue Reading
