The sun is finally peaking through the clouds here in my part of South Carolina - and that's a good thing after three relentless days of rain from Hurricane Florence. Many parts of the Carolinas are still under siege from power outages and rising flood waters, and I pray that the waters will recede ...
Need a quick weeknight meal? Try my Lemony Farfalle Chick’n and Asparagus
We’ve all been there. It's hard to balance the needs of your job, your volunteer commitments, your children's schedules, and your own sanity with the desire to make sure that your family is eating a healthy home-cooked meal together every night. [Trust me - it’s even more challenging when you’re ...
The pasta recipe shared 2.8 million times – with 45% of the calories
Kudos to Julia’s Album for its success in having the most repinned pasta recipe on Pinterest with her Chicken and Bacon Pasta with Spinach and Tomatoes in Garlic Cream Sauce. 2.8 million repins is positively mind-boggling . . . but so was the 1028 calorie cost per serving. I knew I had to ...
Spinach Chorizo Enchiladas for Cinque de Mayo
Since Cinque de Mayo is just a week away, I wanted to put a fresh spin on enchiladas with my favorite plant-based chorizo, El Zapatista from my friends at No Evil Foods. Since we wanted it loaded with veggies and our favorite chorizo plant meat, we included sauted onions, yellow ...
Ricotta-Sausage Stuffed Eggplant Rolatini
With my 92 year old mom finally out of rehab, I’m reverting for a few weeks to a decidedly Italian orientation in my cooking to try and please her somewhat finicky palate. When my hubby enthusiastically returned home with two large eggplants he’d gotten for a buck at Harris Teeter, my first ...
Mediterranean Cutlets for an Easy Weeknight Meal
With my 92 year-old mother in rehab following a hip fracture and surgery, my time for cooking healthy meals for my family has been in short supply this past month. Probably, not unlike your home - since each of us has a unique set of family trials, triumphs, and tribulations to get through at any ...
Easy Chick’n Creole
One of the reasons that carnivores like boneless chicken breasts is that they are versatile and can be prepared in an almost infinite variety of ways. Funny thing. That’s the very same reason that I like Gardein Chick’n Scallopini. Since tomatoes are often present in my cooking and I’d made ...
Eliminating the “V” Words
According to an article in Food & Wine Magazine, we should stop labeling food as vegan or vegetarian to get more folks to eat it. The source interview in Food Navigator with Bruce Friedrich, Executive Director of Good Food Institute, cited a UK study that eliminating a separate ...
