While this salad was made to be served alongside hearty fare like pizza, chicken parmesan, or pasta dishes, it is plenty hearty enough to be the star of dinner on its own. It also makes wonderful lunches! Homemade Italian Vinaigrette I make my vinaigrette by combining fresh lemon juice, mustard, vinegar, olive oil, sugar, dried oregano, salt, and pepper in a glass jar with a lid. Shake it up for a few seconds to combine the ingredients and its ready to go!...

Cream of broccoli soup recipe with no cream in it and yet super creamy. Yes, you read right! It is seriously delicious, super quick to make and at less than 300 calories a portion, you can’t moan much. Let’s cook Pressure Cooker Creamy Broccoli Soup Recipe The other adult human I live with had “man flu” and what’s the best way to tackle cold, you make soup. I made the soup a little spicy to help conquer the cold and it worked....

Serve with everything. Mashed Potato This is the mashed potato you’ve seen smothered in sauces and gravies in hundreds of recipes on my site. It’s made an appearance alongside roasts and uncountable chicken recipes. It’s nestled on the side of plates with huge steaks dripping with garlic butter, it’s buried under a mound of meatballs drowning in delectable sauces. You’ve seen fleeting glimpses of it in recipe videos, from grand holiday centrepieces like Roast Turkey, to quick midweek meals like Honey Garlic Pork Tenderloin and slow cooked comfort foods like the Fall Apart Beef Stroganoff Stew from last week....

So what’s the secret? PEELED ZUCCHINI. Neutral flavour that’s easily disguise-able with seasonings. Purees smooth – and white. This is life changing – imagine the possibilities! {Gluten free, low carb, nutrition dense} 45 calorie Creamy Healthy Soup broth This recipe isn’t one of those healthy food hacks that calls for an enormous amount of effort, or weird ingredients, or where you sacrifice flavour for the sake of less calories. It is, quite simply, my Creamy Zucchini Soup made using PEELED zucchini to make it white rather than keeping the skin on which makes the soup green....

Potatoes are boiled in salted water, then smothered in a sauce made with fresh tomatoes, onions, cream, and cheese. So good! It’s like a cheesy, creamy, tomato-y pasta, except with potatoes instead of pasta. We’re also tossing in some oregano, cumin, and cilantro which work beautifully with the sauce. Recipes and photos have been updated; first published 2005. Add the tomatoes and cook, stirring often, for 5 minutes. Stir in the cream, cilantro, oregano, cumin....

Need more appetizer ideas? Check out this roundup of Easy and Healthy Appetizers! Making dairy-free chicken dip without mayo or cream cheese The dairy-free cashew sauce in this recipe is loaded with flavor and really easy to make! Here’s how you’ll do it. Soak your cashews to soften (see recipe below for quick-soak options)Make some salsa chicken in your instant pot or slow cookerBlend up the soaked cashews, hot sauce and other ingredients to make the creamy dairy-free buffalo sauceShred the chicken, mix it up with the buffalo sauce and bake it for 20-30 minutes...

Apple pie and custard or Apple pie and ice cream, or with simple good old double cream (heavy cream) or maybe you like it on its own. My family and I are divided, I love it with custard, Chris loves it with ice cream and the kids love it with both! and why not? This is a beautiful classic dessert and just the best thing to serve after a big Sunday roast, you will love the oohs and aahs of delight when you bring this to the table, it just puts a smile on everyone’s face, and a little smug one for you too....

🇫🇷Welcome back to French Bistro Week!🇫🇷 From time to time, I like to dedicate a week of recipes to a theme. This week, it’s French Bistro Week!! Following Monday’s French Goat’s Cheese Salad starter, I present today’s Duck Confit as the scrumptious main. As for Friday? Lemon Tart – the perfect French dessert ending to this menu! We’ll round out the week with an incredible French dessert, of course!! Duck Confit Called Confit de Canard in French, Duck Confit is an elegant and classic French bistro dish....

I’ll show you how to get that separation layering that makes this drink look so pretty. This drink is simply the best cocktail ever! Fantastic for sunny BBQ Weekends. Did I ever tell you how much I love this Dark ‘N’ Stormy cocktail? I think I’ve mentioned it once or twice. My old school buddy Helen introduced me to this spicy refreshing cocktail a few years ago, and now I have to order it every time we go out for a couple of drinks....

With that in mind, we’ve curated a collection of 10 easy recipes that are suitable for new cooks. You’ll find a classic pasta with Bolognese sauce that doesn’t take all day, a not-too-spicy avocado and bean quesadilla, a sheet pan chicken dinner, and a simple pan-fried steak, among others. Here are a few tips to help you find success in the kitchen, regardless of the recipe: Read the recipe from start to finish before starting....

There aren’t many things that evoke my childhood memories like the smell of grilling meat. Growing up with a Korean mom, we had ribs or chicken on the grill almost every weekend in the summer and straight into fall. Whether marinated in a sweet soy sauce or basted with a spicy gochujang sauce, we always had that grill sizzling with delicious flavors! One of my mom’s easiest and tastiest recipes started with gochujang mixed with sugar, soy sauce, and vinegar, slathered all over chicken that she’d throw on the grill....

It may be the answer on a cold and chilly day, or just when you have no other ideas for dinner and need something fast and easy. Soup is warm, comforting, and always delicious. How to Make Hamburger Vegetable Soup This hamburger soup is a quick meal when you need it, but it tastes like it has been tucked away on the stove for hours. The key ingredient is, of course, hamburger meat....

A truly quick and tasty breakfast, they take just 20 minutes to make and each serving contains 32 grams of protein! I created this recipe for my daughter, a talented and dedicated powerlifter. Her challenge? Make pancakes without flour (the only dry ingredient being whey protein powder), and make them high in protein, tasty, fluffy, and non-dry. Challenge accepted! This is one of those recipes that required several attempts until we were both happy with the result....

You can serve this delicious salmon pasta on its own or with a side of sauteed or steamed vegetables, and garlic bread to make it a complete, balanced meal. Easy salmon pasta recipe I am all for a quick and easy 30 minutes meal, especially during the weekdays. This salmon pasta is one of those meals that is really simple to make but tastes like a million dollars just like this canned tuna pasta....

Ready in just 30 minutes, it makes the perfect lunch and is also wonderful as a light weeknight dinner. The first time I made this recipe, I wanted to make soup, but I wanted it to be easy. Truly easy! I didn’t feel like sauteing shallots, cooking tomatoes, peeling, pureeing, straining… It’s not that complex recipes are bad. It’s just that I usually don’t have the patience for them. This soup is truly easy to make and it’s so good!...

They come up early in Spring, they’re easy to grow, and their roots fix nitrogen in the soil, helping to prepare the soil for vegetables planted later in the season. They are delicious, though you do have to work for it. Unless very young, the beans need to be shucked twice, first before cooking to remove the bean from the pod, and then after cooking to remove the tough outer membrane from the bean....