Pasta Carbonara: A Quick & Easy Pasta Recipe
My Pasta Carbonara Recipe is enriched with Greek Yogurt making it healthy and delicious. It uses mainly staple ingredients meaning that it is a go to recipe that saves me at the end of many busy days.
Read More...Cooking Healthy Appetizer Recipes For Spring
Finding tasty healthy appetizer recipes can be challenging. Look no further with healthy canapés like this easy little Asian Salad on Crispy Wontons, one of my March Canapé Madness Recipes.
Read More...Healthy Appetizer Recipes: Les Canapés
Spring is almost here! And I want to have friends over for a sunny evening of chat and snacks. But I don’t want to undo all my hard dieting work. Canapés, like this little apricot version, are the easiest healthy appetizer recipes.
Read More...Celebrate Tonight With A Champagne Cocktail
The Oscars are tonight! The last drink in my liquid countdown to The Oscars is a Champagne Cocktail: The Bubbly Maple Leaf Cocktail, in honor of the film Argo. Let’s celebrate all the great films tonight.
Read More...Beer For Best Picture Nominee Silver Linings
Planning an Oscar Party? Look no further! I’ve paired a different drink with each Oscars Best Picture Nominee. For Silver Linings Playbook it’s easy: Beer! Findout why and get all the other Best Picture Drinks here.
Read More...A Refreshing Cocktail For The Life Of Pi
This is a refreshing cocktail called A Salty Tiger in honor of The Oscars Best Picture Nominee The Life of Pi: It’s made of grapefruit juice and IPA in a glass with a salted rim.
Read More...A Quick, Easy and Inexpensive Mid-Week Meal: Shrimp, Caper & Red Onion Topped Penne on Arugula
When I was a kid, shrimp were luxury items. We had them on special occasions like New Year’s Eve or when watching the Grey Cup. Since then, the price of shrimp has come down A LOT. They’re still not as cheap as chips (that reminds me, they taste super-darned good alongside chips!) but if paired [...]
Read More...Corn and Chipotle Soup Might Help. Will You Make Me Some?
He jogs up the field, a zig, a zag, oops a tumble but then he’s up again and in position. The ball streaks toward his outstretched hands as the crowd goes nuts. Yes! He caught it! A proud parent jumps up and claps. Not me. I was not the proud parent at the Y’s Itty [...]
Read More...The Roast Chicken Chronicles Episode 2: I’ve Got You Under My Skin
I have a friend who croons I’ve Got You Under My Skin so sweetly. I’ve always enjoyed listening but I honestly never understood the lyrics. If something is under your skin it’s supposed to annoy you, right? So how can it be a term of endearment? Well, I finally understand and I owe it all [...]
Read More...What do You Want to be Remembered For?
Food 52‘s contest this week is The Recipe You Want to be Remembered For. Do you know which recipe you’d enter? It’s a tricky decision, isn’t it? Do you choose a dish that everyone loves and repeatedly asks you to make or the one that you love and can’t wait to slurp up? Do you [...]
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