Niçoise Salad – serves 6 1.5 lbs cooked thick fish fillet or steak (ex: halibut, tuna, salmon, or steelhead trout) 1-1.5 lbs yukon gold potatoes, cut into quarters. 1 lb haricot verts or green beans, trimmed and cut 3-6 hard-boiled eggs, peeled and halved. 3/4...
These turkey burgers are the best you’ll ever eat. I serve them on the those whole-grain sandwich thins rather than a burger bun. Also, you can skip the sour cream sauce, but as you can see in the picture, just 1-2 TBSP is all you...
Sweet Potato Roast — Adapted from Smitten Kitchen website Serves 8 3 tablespoons salted or unsalted butter, melted 3 tablespoons olive oil Coarse salt and black pepper or red pepper flakes to taste 4 pounds sweet potatoes or yams, peeled and sliced thin (I sliced mine...
This recipe comes from the fantastic food blog– Smitten Kitchen. If you haven’t seen it before, check it out. As noted below, she adapted it from Nigel Slater’s cookbook Eat. This is the first dessert “recipe of the week”, but I like it because it...
Lobster Pasta with Tomato Cream Sauce (Serves 3-4 for lunch, 2-3 for dinner) 1 tbsp butter 1 tbsp olive oil 2 medium shallots, diced 2 medium shallots, diced 3 medium garlic cloves, sliced thin 6-7 small ripe, plum tomatoes, diced (or 1 can chopped tomatoes) ...
This recipe is super easy and you can make a small amount to feed just a family of 4, or a larger amount to feed a whole crowd (hence the loose quantities written below). I often bring this to potlucks since it can be assembled...
Here’s a recipe that’s great for summer- light, refreshing and healthy. It’s an amalgamation of several chicken recipes, mostly based off the recipe for Julienne’s Chicken Salad from the LA times archives. Tarragon Curry Chicken Salad 1/2 bunch celery, finely chopped 1/2 bunch green onions, finely chopped 1 bunch...
Hi all, cooking is one of my hobbies and I thought I’d share some of my recipes and how I stay fit. These recipes are what I call “healthy-ish”. You’re not going to find any rich, fattening desserts or heavy pastas and carbs. (Yes, I...