Chickpea and Spinach Curry

One of the necessities with cooking while traveling is learning to cook with what you have. I more often have a stove top, but not an oven. Also, most places tend to have one large pot for cooking. As a result, many of our recipes are one-pot meals cooked in the one large pot. You also have…

Mixed Greens Spanikopitas with Goat Cheese

I don’t know if you guys have the same trouble I do with a trip to Costco but I always find the most wonderful ingredients to play with and yet they come in such large packages, I’m left with figuring out what to do with it all. A recent trip left me in that very…

Spinach, Feta, Basil and Sun-dried Tomato Souffle

I love starting out the day with delicious little bites of food. It just gets me going to open the day with wonderful tastes and flavors. Recently I tried the souffles at Panera Bread and thought them to be quite yummy. So yummy, that I had to give them a try at home. I started…

Start Your Happy & Healthy Resolutions with Chicken Sausage & Veggies with Penne Pasta

I want to wish everyone a happy 2013.  It’s the season of new beginnings and a lot of resolutions that will be broken later this year.  There’s something about the idea of making a resolution.  We have good intentions but it’s hard to change our habits to really make the necessary changes for sticking to…

Pesto: Four Ways

Pesto, the beautiful green wonderment of summer cooking loaded with green goodness.  I often hear people stating emphatically how they “hate” pesto and will never eat it again.  To those people my answer is: skip the store-bought stuff and make it at home and you will never again say that you “hate” pesto.  Store bought pesto…