Quick Pasta Fagiole

A weekend of over-indulging on food at the Greek festival, bachelorette party fare and an awesome brunch made me
want to get my act together on Sunday night for dinner.  I was craving something filling and with pasta, so I needed to get some veggies in there too.  I remembered seeing some recipes for pasta fagiole [...]

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Warm Lentil Salad with Goat Cheese and Smoked Paprika

This is one of those drop everything and go make this now recipes.  It was that good.  In fact, so good I bumped it up
in my queue of posts.
I made this recipe two nights ago thinking it would pretty tasty because I love lentils and smoked paprika, and I was lured in by the picture [...]

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Braised Noodles with Chicken and Vegetables

Here’s a good one for while I’m away.  These noodles make a quick dinner on a busy workday. Shanghai-style noodles are thick, dense wheat-flour noodles that have a chewy texture. You can also use Chinese-style egg noodles; cook them for only 1 minute and use only 6 Tbs. of the chicken stock for braising the [...]

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Mexican Chopped Salad with Honey Lime Dressing

I’ll go ahead and get it out of the way- there’s going to be a dry spell around here for the next 2 weeks.  I’m going out of town for work
and have been working some late hours, so there hasn’t been too much notable cooking going on.  However, I do have this one good recipe [...]

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My Kind of Chocolate Birthday Cake

Greg’s mom Marcia’s birthday was yesterday, and I offered to make a cake.  I had found this cake a few days ago while searching on
epicurious.com and her birthday was the perfect opportunity to make it.  It’s more of a dessert than a cake and perfect for people who don’t love big, overwhelming, frosting slathered cakes [...]

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Grilled Eggplant and Artichoke Panini

This panini was the centerpiece of our mother’s day lunch and was quick and easy to make (and can be prepped ahead of time) and can satisfy vegetarians and non-vegetarians alike.  The artichoke caper spread is especially good and you could put it on a lot of different sandwiches- it would complement chicken or beef [...]

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Roast Eggplant with Chickpea Stew and Jeweled Couscous

This is a beautiful dish and very healthy- lots of vegetables and very little fat.  I found this recipe on A Pot of Tea and a Biscuit, and was attracted to it because of the number of spices in it (you know I love long ingredient lists), and it’s relative ease to make.  It’s impressive [...]

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Chicken Souvlaki (for Chicken Gyros)

I’ve been looking for a chicken souvlaki recipe and most of them seem to just be grilled chicken and that’s about it.  Maybe some olive oil and lemon juice, but not much beyond that.  That doesn’t excite me because I want big flavor.  I found a recipe from kalofagas.ca that looked like it would fit [...]

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Roasted Vegetable, Fontina and Farro Salad

I’m back after a long hiatus.  This past week I’ve been dealing with a flooded home and really haven’t cooked beyond simple salads, but this week I’m catching up.  Yesterday I finally used some farro I bought when we were in San Francisco last fall…thank goodness grains last for a long time.  I used a [...]

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Feta Cucumber Dip

It’s always amazing to me when the simplest dishes are the really beautiful, tasty and great for entertaining.  I think that a lot when I cook Mediterranean food because the ingredient list isn’t long or unusual, but the flavor combinations are amazing.  I made this dip last weekend to serve as an appetizer before the [...]

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