These are so delicious and loaded with fresh veggies and lots of flavor! Lettuce for Lettuce Wraps Chicken lettuce wraps can be wrapped in any kind of lettuce but the following are my favorites: Butter Lettuce or Bibb Lettuce: has a great shape and won’t crack when folded but is soft so it can rip if you’re not careful Iceberg Lettuce: fresh, sturdy and crunchy. Can crack if you bend them....
We serve this easy Hamburger Soup with a fresh green salad and some crusty bread for the perfect meal! I love a good soup as a weeknight meal. Hearty soups are satisfying & simple and they are loaded with vegetables and healthy ingredients! Soup is the perfect cool weather food or delicious weeknight dinner! You can make them totally low cal like a Weight Loss Vegetable Soup, nice and hearty like a Chicken Wild Rice Soup or rich and creamy like a Slow Cooker Corn Chowder!...
For me, there is nothing new about Enoki mushrooms (a.k.a. enokitake). We’ve always loved them! Enoki is the Japanese name for them. We Chinese call them “golden needle mushrooms” (金针菇, jin-zhen-gu) or “lily mushrooms.” Buying Enoki Mushrooms Enoki mushrooms are usually vacuum-packed, in packages of about 7 ounces apiece, and they have a pretty long shelf life when refrigerated. When fresh, the color should be white, and the stems should be firm....
We had a Chinese/Italian fusion dinner of spaghetti alla vongole, fried calamari, salt cod fritters with marinara sauce, steamed whole Chinese sea bass, Cantonese lobster, grilled shrimp, and steamed mussels with white wine sauce. It was, in a word, AMAZING. We were converted. Why have ONE rib roast with sides when you could have SEVEN delicious and amazing seafood dishes, PLUS PASTA?!! It took us all of two seconds at the dinner table to realize that the roast may not be making an appearance again for another few years....
Spaghetti squash is halved, seasoned and filled with feta and tomatoes before roasting. It’s all mixed together in the end for a perfect side or light dinner. Easy Cheesy Spaghetti Squash Easy to prepare in just a few steps, this recipe takes very little hands on time. Fresh in flavor and ingredients. The feta and roast tomatoes bake along with the squash for the perfect dish. One baking sheet is all it takes!...
What Is Frozen Tofu? Frozen tofu is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. It is regular firm tofu, that is steamed and then frozen. Frozen raw tofu tends to crumble, so we cook it beforehand to shore it up for the freezing process. Frozen tofu is popular in Northern China. In the days before central heating, homes were often heated with wood burning stoves, and anything left out in the kitchen could freeze on a particularly cold night....
In this delightful recipe, the whole salmon fillet is seasoned with fresh lemon slices, dill, and luscious garlic butter. The foil keeps it extra moist and flavorful! Salmon for this Recipe This recipe uses a whole salmon fillet as it’s easy to make for a crowd and requires little prep. It works well with any kind of salmon from wild to farmed or chinook to steelhead. As with most salmon recipes, it can easily be adapted to individual filets too (and cooked all in one foil pack or in individual packets)....
We start with Perfect Gingerbread Cookies or even Sugar Cookies as a base. This gingerbread house icing is quick drying, sturdy and strong. Gingerbread House Icing is the perfect “glue” for your baking! This can be used to make full gingerbread houses however, we also use it to make gingerbread houses out of graham cookies or mini gingerbread houses. (I have the cutest mini gingerbread house cookie cutters). How to Make Gingerbread House Icing Gingerbread house icing is more than just icing, it’s the glue to hold your gingerbread house together....
This easy slow cooker ham and potato soup is perfect served alongside our favorite 30 Minute Dinner Rolls with a fresh Kale Salad! Slow Cooker Potato Soup Few things are as comforting as a delicious and creamy soup on a cold winter day! Even better is coming home to dinner after a busy day of work or errands! I truly love potato soup, it’s so comforting! One of my very best friends made this delicious Ham and Potato soup for me for lunch one day!...
Ground beef and macaroni are cooked in a creamy, cheesy tomato sauce to make a wholesome, hearty new family favorite! Make extras for the refrigerator and freezer, and reheat for easy lunches and dinners. Homemade Beefaroni Beefaroni is a one-pot easy peasy kind of dish and ready to eat in about 20 minutes! This kid classic has been given a flavor makeover using just a few fresh and wholesome ingredients!...
A Different Take on Classic Kid Food Homemade chicken nuggets were a rare treat. Usually, it was me or my sister spearheading some cooking experiment from one of the kid-oriented cookbooks that got us excited to get into the kitchen and try our hand at cooking (with some parental supervision, of course). But despite all this talk about nostalgia and kid food, I STILL get excited at the prospect of a plate of chicken nuggets....
If you love warm desserts with ice cream as much as I do, you might also like these Apple Pie Dumplings or this Easy Homemade Peach Cobbler. What is a Pizookie Pizookie is kind of a strange name, but the idea is that it is a combination between “pizza” and “cookie” — or a giant chocolate chip cookie baked in a cast iron skillet and served just the same way....
Creamy potato salad was the exception rather than the rule when I was growing up. Mayonnaise, sour cream, cream cheese – all things rich and creamy were basically considered “treats” and only made an appearance for specific occasions when a particular recipe called for them. They never made the weekly shopping basket. And as a consequence of that, even as an adult, I find myself bypassing the mayonnaise and even sour cream in the aisles at the supermarket....
Baked Pie crusts is great for Chocolate Silk Pie or an Ultimate Coconut Cream Pie! What Is Blind Baking? Don’t be afraid of the word ‘blind bake.’ It simply means baking a pie crust empty. It’s mostly so a cold filling like chocolate pudding, mousse or pastry cream, and fresh fruit (like in a strawberry pie) can be poured inside and then chilled. Why Blind Bake? It is perfect when making a filling that is pre-cooked or made on the the stove top, and a critical step when creating a no bake pie....
It imparts a full, rich flavor to sautéed vegetables, and mellows the spicy hotness of such recipes. What Exactly Is Clarified Butter? Clarified butter is the beautiful yellow liquid you see in the photos. Similar to ghee in Indian cuisine (a little bit different but close), it comes from ordinary salted or unsalted butter you buy at the grocery store. Butter is composed of milk solids, fats and water. When cooked, you remove the milk solids and are left with the fat which is golden delicious....
My boyfriend Justin (Friend-Turned-Boyfriend. See here. Then eventually husband. See here.) and I went to Iceland for 10 days in March, driving the entire Ring Road in a camper van. We washed dishes in the frigid spray of gas station car washes, negotiated pee breaks in the unpredictable, often unrelenting Icelandic wind and rain, and diligently scarfed a magical snack known as Cheez Cruncherz (because S’s aren’t as good as Z’s) while trying not to get cheese cheez dust on the front seats....
Instant Pot Risotto Carbonara looks elegant and fancy; nobody will ever guess how easy it really is! This recipe comes from a new favorite addition to my cookbook collection. Just because you’re short on time doesn’t mean you can’t create incredible better-than-restaurant dishes at home. I’m the kind of person who reads cookbooks cover to cover and I have to admit, Weeknight Gourmet Dinners from my friend Meseidy (from The Noshery) is at the top of my list of favorites....
There is, however, an on-going debate on whether this dish originated in Taiwan or Shandong, China. Apparently, 滷肉饭 and 鲁肉饭 are written differently, but both sound alike and the latter states the origin of Shandong in its name. To help set the record straight, the Taipei government actually launched a huge campaign in 2011, handing out 1000 bowls of lu rou fan and claiming ownership of the dish. That’s dedication, my friends....
Millionaire Shortbread is an easy cookie bar that usually pops up around the holidays, but it’s a treat we enjoy year-round! With rich salted caramel, crunchy shortbread, and dark chocolate, they are rich but they’re worth every indulgent bite. It’s that time of year when many get the urge to head to the kitchen and whip up their favorite cookies and Christmas treats. Millionaire Shortbread bars need to be on your baking list!...
Posted May 19, 2019, Updated May 10, 2024 These no bake oatmeal bars with peanut butter are one of our favorite healthy treats. They are easy to make with 7 ingredients in 10 minutes and are so delicious your kids will think they’re eating dessert when they’re really eating a wholesome snack! These no bake oatmeal bars are a delicious combination of all my favorite things: Peanut butter, chocolate, coconut, and honey....
