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This is a Mediterranean style quinoa salad with beautiful roasted spring vegetables and feta cheese. You get some salt and vinegar from the green olives and pickled red onions. The dressing is light and lemony. A good lunch salad for vegetable lovers and a lovely side dish for picnics, potlucks and parties.
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Guacamole is an appetizer that makes everyone happy, a rich and creamy dip with notes of fresh lemon or lime juice, onions, garlic and cilantro. Nothing is more inviting and satisfying to dip a crunchy, salty tortilla chip into than guacamole. Homemade guacamole is infinitely better than store bought. Here’s my favorite way to make…
This Brazilian hearts of palm salad is irresistibly good…and ridiculously easy to make. What I love about this dish is how a couple of cans of artichoke hearts and hearts of palm can transform a simple summer salad into an exotic tropical side dish. The creamy lemon-mustard-garlic dressing brings it all together for a colorful…
Chicken Parmesan is one of the most delicious foods on the planet. Here’s how to make Perfect Italian Chicken Parmesan that’s crisp on the outside, tender inside and covered with velvety rich tomato sauce and melted cheese. When you cook this for friends and family, you’ll have some happy folks at your table!
Nach Waxman’s Brisket of beef is everything you want brisket to be: tender, deeply flavorful and moist with rich gravy that tastes like the best onion soup. Waxman’s ingenious recipe calls for cooking the brisket on top of a mountain of onions with no water, and slicing the meat halfway through cooking. This recipe is…
This Goat Cheese Appetizer is one of those treasured dishes you can throw together in ten minutes and everyone raves. An irresistible combination of tangy goat cheese and garlicky dressing. You don’t always have to work hard to make something amazing! I call this recipe “Goat Cheese Dressed For A Party.” Goat cheese is taken…
Stuffed Peppers always bring excitement to the table, the promise of a special gift inside a tasty wrapper! In the post, I’ll show you an easy way to make perfect stuffed bell peppers, sweet and tender and filled with a savory stuffing of pork, rosemary, garlic and parmesan. Or sub in ground beef or chicken, if…
This elegant Moroccan Chicken Tagine is perfect for the slow cooker. The chicken braises low and slow, tenderizing and soaking up all the delicious flavors of garlic, honey and fragrant North African spices. The result is falling-off-the-bone deliciousness! A truly spectacular dish with minimal time and effort in the kitchen.
Here’s my favorite black bean soup! It uses dried black turtle beans which are the key to making the best black bean soup with rich dark velvety broth. A generous seasoning of cumin and chipotle chilis in adobo infuse smokiness and just the right amount of heat into this delicious healthy soup that is hearty enough to…
You don’t need a lot of time or a special pan to make delicious Spanish Paella. I always thought of paella as an exotic, difficult-to-make dish because my mother-in-law was my role model. She made paella that was so impressive I was in awe. She had the special special pan for paella and it would come…
A super healthy mix of fruits, nuts and seeds is packed into these tasty oven-toasted snack bars and they are totally irresistible. Whip up a batch and you might find yourself hooked. Why spend money buying prepackaged snack bars when homemade bars like this are so much tastier and healthier? There are an insane number…
Chicken Adobo is the most popular and famous dish in the Philippines. Chicken is braised, low and slow, in tangy, vinegary garlic sauce until it is meltingly tender and falling off the bone. It’s incredible! And the good news is, it’s easy to make Filipino chicken adobo at home with common ingredients.
This Curried Chicken Stew is packed with veggies and bursting with bright flavors of the Caribbean. Shredded chicken thighs and butternut squash in coconut curry broth with rum and mango. This wonderful Jamaican stew is a whole healthy dinner in one pot that will have everyone clamoring for seconds! Imagine you are floating in the…
