Teresa Giudice’s Zucchini Spaghetti Salad from her Skinny Italian cookbook is a wonderful starter or side dish. It really lets the zucchini shine. So make this when the zucchs are in season, which is now, now, now in my lovely Garden State. Yay! It is light and refreshing and packed with flavor, all good things you should look for in a salad. Basically, you take an ordinary carrot peeler and […]
My Roasted Caprese is the perfect appie or side on these lazy summer nights when you don’t feel like cooking much but want to taste the flavor of the season. I always have all of these ingredients on hand: And of course garlic, basil and the co-stars: grape tomatoes and fresh mozzarella (or burrata). My guys loved both the mozzarella and the burrata. I would not use bocconcini. I think […]
Deviled eggs. Kinda trashy, kinda retro and kinda AWESOME.For reals, who doesn’t love a deviled egg? Tis’ the season for BBQing, picnicking and all that, so you gots to have a deviled egg recipe in your pocket.Err. Well, your bag of recipe tricks, I suppose, would be a better place for a hard-boiled egg stuffed with a mayonaissy-yolky yellow-stained filling of deliciousness, right?! There is a secret ingredient, natch. In […]
Parents often say their kids won’t eat anything. Fights. Hunger strikes. Terrorist negotiations. Oh yes, dinner can be a nightmare for many adults trying to just get through to bedtime with their beloved offspring. Allow me to present a solution, dear desperate readers: Stir fry. Yes, stir fry them into a frenzy of eating and not complaining. One of the many hits in my house with kiddo is stir-fry. Yes, […]
A colorful soup is just what I love, and this Vegetable Soup au Pistou from Melissa Clark’s “Dinner in French” cookbook is no exception. It features some of summer’s finest goodies – tomatoes, zucchini and string beans (and peas if you are like me and want to just add some in). I know the heat and humidity of summer may not lend themselves to soup dining, but perhaps you will […]
