24 posts categorized "Quick Meal"
Simple Creamy Tomato Soup: January 17, 2012
Can you stop after just one potato chip? Or two for that matter? Or, if your neighbors left some home made chocolate chip cookies on your doorstep and you bite into one and it is delicious, could you have just...
Asparagus and Cannellini Bean Salad: June 13, 2011
I haven't been at all creative in the kitchen lately. In fact, I've barely been in the kitchen lately. The end of school year activities, along with overlapping sports seasons (soccer/baseball/softball/swimming) have left my head spinning with very little time...
Ramp Pesto: May 13, 2011
Ramps are only available for a short time each spring, making them one of those foods that marks the season. They have a mild onion-y flavor, which is fresh and bright, capturing perfectly the taste of spring. I got the...
Warm Garlicky Lentil and Potato Salad: January 11, 2011
Several cultures have a tradition of eating legumes on or around New Years' Day. In the South, it's tradition to eat black-eyed peas for good luck. In Italy and Brazil, lentils are thought to bring luck. One theory is that...
Leftover Mashed Potato Pancakes: November 27, 2010
My sister and her husband brought the mashed potatoes on Thanksgiving. They went through all the work of peeling potatoes for 16 of us, cooking, mashing, and adding whatever secret ingredients they mixed in to make them taste delicious. But...
Fresh Broccoli Lemon Pasta: November 12, 2010
After that recipe for pecan bars (and after polishing off the last of our stash), I am definitely in the mood for something healthier. And what is healthier than broccoli? Amazingly, our children will all eat broccoli. Actually, it's more...
Grilled Zucchini Summer Sandwich : July 7, 2010
We seem to have spent the first part of the summer everywhere but home, eating dinner out of the house and expanding our repertoire of dishes that travel well. But now that school is out and we have settled into...
Olivia's Warm Goat Cheese Salad: June 16, 2010
As you know if you have been reading this blog for a bit, I love nothing better than to cook with our children. Not with them as an ingredient, of course, but with them in the kitchen with me. Just...
Simple Fried Rice: June 8, 2010
I love to spend time puttering in the kitchen. When I feel a bit out of sorts or crabby, an hour or two in the kitchen will usually make everything right. I just slip on my cooking shoes, put some...
Pressure Cooker Saffron and Artichoke Risotto: March 29, 2010
I bought a pressure cooker years ago for Gabe because I had heard it was great for making beans, and we loved to make Cuban black beans. But I was afraid to use it. I don't know whether I had...
Caldo Verde (Portugese Potato and Kale Soup): December 1, 2009
I don't know about you, but after the heavenly excess of this past weekend, my pants are feeling a bit snug. I need some simple food, and what better to satisfy that need than soup. This soup only has four...
Caramelized Onion Carbonara: October 27, 2009
I thought it was time to post one of those super easy, delicious dinner ideas that we return to again and again. This recipe only calls for egg, onion, and pasta. The cream is an excellent touch, but you really...
Bean Quesadillas with Avocado Salsa: September 17, 2009
Categories: Appetizer, Avocado, Beans, Condiment, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Party Food, Quick Meal, Season: Anytime, Tomato
Some weeks we are very organized about the children's lunches, shopping especially for them on the weekend. And some weekends are chaotic and we don't get our planning done. Quesadillas are one of those lunches that we usually can pull...
Corn, Tomato, and Quinoa Salad with Cilantro Vinaigrette: August 25, 2009
Categories: Corn, Farmers' Market Find, Potluck Dish, Quick Meal, Quinoa, Season: Summer, Side Dish, Tomato
Aren't neighbors wonderful? We had our neighbors over for dinner the other night, and we grilled some corn to go along with our tacos. I had gotten the corn at the farmers' market, and as I husked it with the...
Peach, Tomato, and Mozzarella Salad: August 20, 2009
Categories: Farmers' Market Find, Peach, Picnic Food, Potluck Dish, Quick Meal, Salad, Season: Summer, Tomato
As I have mentioned before, one of our favorite summer meals is tomato and mozzarella salad. Of course we wait until really good tomatoes are available at the farmers' market (or in our garden!) and use the best mozzarella we...
Vegetarian Sloppy Joes a.k.a. Sloppy Tamaras: July 14, 2009
If you have not been too keen on tofu, but are willing to give it another go, this is an excellent dish to try. The flavors are robust, so even those who don't normally care for tofu will be won...
Linguine with Garlic Scape and Pea Pesto: June 16, 2009
I love to discover something new at the farmers' market. So when we saw these garlic scapes at Calvert's Gift, I was very excited. Garlic scapes are the flower stem of the garlic root bulb. Their flavor is milder and...
Roasted Asparagus and New Potatoes with Tarragon: June 2, 2009
Categories: Asparagus, Entree, Farmers' Market Find, Party Food, Picnic Food, Potato, Potluck Dish, Quick Meal, Season: Spring, Side Dish
For some reason, tarragon is an excellent complement to many spring dishes. Of course, I love it in egg salad, but it is also perfect with those tender spring vegetables like asparagus and peas. For this dish, I paired it...
Pea Shoot Pasta with Lemon Cream Sauce: May 7, 2009
For some reason this winter seems to have dragged on longer than usual. Perhaps it is the unusual number of rainy days, or the dearth of warm sunny ones, but I feel like winter has been hard to shake. I...
Taco Frittata: April 22, 2009
I cannot say enough good things about frittatas. If you're not familiar with them, they are an Italian egg dish that is essentially a crustless quiche. One of the best things about them is that they are infinitely adaptable and...
Egg Salad with Tarragon and Shallots: April 13, 2009
Categories: Egg, Entree, Farmers' Market Find, Lunch Box, Picnic Food, Quick Meal, Salad, Season: Spring, Shallot
Now that Easter has passed and our eggs have been decorated, hidden, and found, we have a refrigerator full of eggs. Fortunately, we all like egg salad. We found a delicious recipe in the Gourmet Cookbook a few years ago...
Cacio e Pepe: April 2, 2009
I love this dish. I admit that my love for it is wrapped up in a memory of a trip to Italy. Gabe and I were staying with a friend of his mother's in Trastevere, a neighborhood in Rome with...
Potato Leek Soup: March 25, 2009
I got home from work one day last week completely worn out. It had been one of days in one of those weeks. I was tired, grumpy, and hungry. When I walked in the door, I could smell something good...
Snow Day Celery Soup: March 2, 2009
This snowstorm took me completely by surprise. I know it was predicted to blanket the entire northeast, but we have had a number of predictions this winter that did not come true. We kept sleeping with our pajamas inside out,...
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