I made this amazing and easy salmon salad a couple of months ago, and completely dropped the ball on getting the recipe up before Summer came to an end. But when simple food tastes this good it doesn’t matter what season it is when you eat it! This baked salmon has a flavorful honey garlic glaze and ...
Peach and Plum Oat Crumble
I love easy desserts! Mostly because I’m not a great baker. I don’t have the patience for something to cook in an oven. When I’m hungry I want to eat…ASAP! But, I also have a huge sweet tooth so sometimes desserts are necessary. This recipe uses fresh seasonal fruit with a crumble topping that you ...
The Easiest Shakshuka Recipe Ever
Shakshuka has got to be one of the best egg dishes in the world! At least, in my opinion. If you aren’t familar with shakshuka it is a Middle-Easter or North African dish where whole eggs are dropped into a spiced tomato and pepper sauce. The entire dish can be made on the stove top or in the ...
Pizza Drop Biscuits
“It’s wrong to take a box of cornbread mix and turn it into biscuits.” SAID NO ONE EVER! If you haven’t made cornbread biscuits you need to ASAP, because they are so good! The best part is you can fill them with all these wonderful toppings like I did here with these pizza inspired cornbread drop ...
Coconut Curry Chicken Tacos with Mango Salsa and Lime Crema
I love fusing my Indian roots into our meals. My son doesn’t eat a lot of traditional Indian food, and my husband never craves it since we are fortunate enough to live close to family that cook Indian food all the time so I love finding new ways to get the flavors into easy weeknight meals. This ...
Roasted Carrots with Chili Fig and Curry Glaze + Israeli Couscous Salad
I have been so obsessed with these rainbow carrots! They are beautiful raw or cooked, and each color has a slightly different flavor and texture. I love roasting them in the oven as a side to any protein, or throwing them into a salad. This Chili Fig and Curry glaze is insanely easy and ...
Grilled Steak Bites with Porcini Butter and Gorgonzola Cream Sauce
If you have a steak lover in the house, but don’t love making steak for said steak lover trust me…there are still options! My husband loves steak, but I don’t crave it the way he does and since I’m the one who usually cooks we don’t make it often. Well because it was just Father’s Day I wanted to ...
Summer Salad Pizza with Fig and Prosciutto
Tell me you’ve had veggie pizza before? Not a pizza with vegetables on it, but the party pizza appetizer made from canned crescent rolls topped with cheese spread and raw veggies! It may sound weird (if you haven’t tried it), but it’s so good! I’ve taken the idea of “veggie pizza” and made it so ...
Spicy Shrimp Spring Pasta
This is a simple yet luscious pasta dish that you will make over and over because it’s that easy! The shrimp and Spring vegetables keep it light and add a great bite. So perfect when you’re craving those carbs. I have to tell you that I use jarred pasta sauces a lot. More often since ...
Fig and Feta Chicken Sausage Flatbread with Pears and Fig Balsamic Glaze
Want to know how to make the easiest fig flatbread ever? Start by getting high quality ingredients—Gilbert’s Craft Sausages just released their Fig and Feta Chicken Sausage, and it’s amazing, then add fresh ingredients like arugula, pears, caramelized onion, and fig preserves. Trust me when I tell ...
Bailey’s Mint Chocolate Chip Chocolate Cake Shake
You all know I live in Chicago, and in Chicago there is an obsession with Portillo’s chocolate cake. They even put this cake in a shake! So I took the idea of a chocolate cake shake, and went nuts with it! This chocolate cake shake was originally for St. Patrick’s Day, but let’s be ...
Easy Cookout Ideas: DIY Hot Dog Bar
Sometimes hosting a barbecue or cookout can be daunting. You wrack your brain going over details about the party. Will there be enough food? Enough drinks? Will someone be at the grill the ENTIRE time? What will the kids eat? That’s why grilling (or microwaving…wink, wink) high quality hot dogs with ...