Category: Recipes – entree

The easiest sauce you’ll ever make: Spicy Roasted Tomatillo Sauce Recipe

If the classic mother sauces have intimidated you, causing you to steer away from sauce making, here’s a manageable recipe for you. This is likely the easiest and most forgiving multipurpose sauce you’ll ever make. One of the best parts about it is that the ingredients are interchangeable, but the technique stays the same. Just […]

Tart Chicken and Chickpea Salad with Bacon Vinaigrette

Here’s a full-flavored, high-protein salad you can throw together this summer. It’s one of our standard beach eats because it’s fast, feeds many and is filling enough to sustain us for more fun in the sun. This salad also provides another good use for leftover dark meat from roasted chickens. The sharpness of the raw […]

Shrimp, leek and lime-stuffed cabbage dumplings

If you want to break out of the routine and try something a little different, this is the recipe for you. The lime broth really lightens up these stuffed cabbage dumplings, making it an ideal summer supper. I love tying up the dumplings like little packages hiding their surprise filling. Don’t be intimidated, you can […]

Creamy sweet potato soup with chipotle and orange

Here’s a soup to kick off the cooler months, one that would make a nice addition to your Thanksgiving menu. The soup has a little heat from the chipotle pepper, but you can adjust the spice level with the addition or reduction of the number of peppers used. The garnishes are my favorite part of […]