Perfectly cooked tender roast pork slices with fettucine and an easy almond sauce. Quick, light, and flavorful – the perfect weeknight dinner for two. Roast Pork Noodles Adapted from Cooking Light Ingredients 1/2 teaspoon canola oil 1/2 pound pork tenderloin, trimmed 1/2 teaspoon salt, divided 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 8 ounces uncooked fettuccine 1/4 cup natural/unsweetened almond butter (I...
I know I’m a week late… but! Happy Chinese New Year and the Year of the Snake! It’s time to eat some good food for good luck this new year, and wontons definitely represent fortune. The reason why wontons and dumplings (larger and thicker skinned than wontons) bring luck and fortune is because they look...
Charred juicy Italian sausage slices in a bowl of wholesome white bean spinach stew, served with multigrain bread. The perfect kind of hassle-free one-skillet weeknight dinner! Sausage White Bean Stew Ingredients 2 tbsp of olive oil 1lb Italian uncooked spicy or mild sausage 1 large onion, thinly sliced 4 garlic cloves, chopped 1 sprig...
If you have a busy weeknight and a hungry stomach but refuse to eat out, yet again, then I think you and I have something in common: the desire to make a baby spinach pizza with sopressata and sriracha. Yup, baby spinach pizza with sopressata and sriracha. The entire recipe takes about 25 minutes...
This is probably the longest it’s been between posts. Too many things going on and too many places to be at once. Sometimes you just have to let some things go and go back to Step 1: priortizing. But since I owe you all for being MIA for so long, it only makes sense...
Take a second and think about all the enchiladas you’ve ever had. Was there one that really stood out, or were they all about the same? If it’s the latter, then you have to make this recipe. The sauce is thicker than the usual version of enchiladas sauce, and the tortillas were lightly fried...
What did everyone do on Easter Sunday? We BBQ’d away… in the beautiful weather. The appetizer to start was sweet potato biscuits with some dijon mustard, enjoyed with thin slices of Speck (Italian juniper-flavored ham) and drizzled with honey. Savory and sweet come together in this dish for the perfect starter! Sweet Potato Biscuits,...
“Carbonara” was a word that conjured up images of pasta or meat slathered in cream sauces. Although it is definitely tasty, that usually isn’t a dish that appeals to me much – until I finally figured out what carbonara really means. Carbonara refers to a dish made with eggs, cheese, bacon and black pepper. In...
Delicious tomato sauce goodness over an addicting chewy pasta, bucatini. What makes Bucatini all’Amatriciana as good as it is are the sweetened flavors of guanciale (pork cheek) and carrots, combined with the sharp flavor of pecorino romano cheese. There are as many variations of this as there are regions of Italy, but here is a popular...
I am hooked to my new cookbook Harvest to Heat. For my first recipe, I chose Burrata with Speck, Peas, and Mint. Enjoy this recipe by Chef Nancy Silverton of Osteria Mozza. This entire book is based on the concept of minimizing the time it takes from farm to table. Authors Darryl...
