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This dish was absolutely delicious! It is healthy, easy to cook and tastes amazing! If you have the time, prepare some Naan or buy some at a local Indian Store as it really tops it off. We served ours over Jasmine rice with some Naan that we bought and it was perfect! [...]

This dish was discovered in my Rachel Ray cookbook: 30-Minute GET REAL Meals. We have made this about three or four times in the last month (THANK YOU RACHEL!!!). It is soo good and actually healthy too!! It’s great served as a side dish to just about any meal and you get your veggies [...]

This is an excellent salad to throw together when you have guests coming over. It is very pretty and tastes amazing! The dressing goes excellent with the strawberries and spinach. This would even be good as a main dish served for lunch–just double up on the strawberries
Ingredients:

2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 [...]

This recipe was inspired by the folks at whatwereeating.com. We had to make some changes, however, because we couldn’t find all of the ingredients in the original recipe. So, here is our version which turned out absolutely wonderful and easy to make! The kids had seconds and thirds! We served [...]

And yet another wonderful recipe we tried from whatweareeating.com!! We used this to cook our Tuna Steaks.. Makes a great dip for any bread too!

1 cup good quality olive oil
4 sprigs of fresh rosemary
6 sprigs of fresh thyme
4 fresh sage leaves
6 sprigs of fresh oregano
3 cloves of garlic, smashed and roughly chopped
pinch of kosher salt [...]

We served up this succulent salad with our pan seared tuna steak! If you are trying to eat lighter as we are, this is the perfect salad to compliment any meal! The flavors combine to give you a wonderful tarty/sweet flavor. And the textures of the jicama, cucumber and onion together are [...]

My hubby made this meal for my birthday!  We served this dish our delicious Shrimp Scampi.  It’s also great served with pork chops marinated in Asian Marinade (which is also the sauce used for this salad).  Enjoy!

Ingredients:

1 tbsp. Rice Wine Vinegar
1 tbsp. Sambal Oelek (found at an Asian food market or specialty store)– can use [...]

If you’ve had Brussels Sprouts in the past and didn’t like em, give them one more try using this recipe!  VERY simple to make and they go well with almost any dish!  You see ours pictured here with Chicken Roulade.

Ingredients:

1 1/2 lbs Brussels Sprouts, ends trimmed and yellow leaves removed
3 tbsp. olive oil
1 tsp. kosher [...]

We found this recipe in our Vegetarian magazine. It was excellent! Loved the goat cheese and think we are also going to try Feta next time to put a different spin on it! We served ours with garlic bread and salad with artichoke hearts. Em, em good! Kids loved [...]

This was serverd the next day so you can see how tight the cut was. last night. You know how hard it is to keep a fresh cut of lasagna in place! Right?!

Ingredients:

2 large cans of Tomato Sauce
2 cans diced tomatoes
1 large can whole peeled tomatoes
4 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tbsp. Italian seasoning
2 tbsp. fresh cut [...]

We wanted to carry on the family tradition of cooking egg rolls on New Years Eve. These turned out excellent! As seen in the picture, we served them with Pad Thai. Serve with sweet & sour sauce and/or hot mustard. We used tofu in this recipe– but if you prefer, you can use [...]

Ingredients:

1 (9″) prepared graham cracker pie crust
2 large bananas, sliced
2 c. cold milk
2 (3.2 oz) packages of instant vanilla pudding mix
1/2 tsp. cinnamon, ground
1 (16 oz) container frozen whipped topping, thawed
1/4 c. caramel ice cream topping

Directions:
Place half of the banana slices in the bm of thcrst.

In a large bowl, combine milk, vanilla pudding mixes and [...]

Garlic Asparagus

You can see this side dish here
Ingredients:

1 stick of butter or margarine
1 bunch fresh asparagus (approximately 1.5 lbs)
1/2 c. white wine
3 cloves garlic, chopped

Directions:

Steam the asparagus until done yet still firm (you don’t want it mushy).
In a saucepan, combine the white whine, butter and garlic. Simmer for 10 minutes.
Transfer sauce/butter mixture to a bowl [...]

The BEST Pad Thai!

Most Pad Thai recipes are pretty much the same but we have experimented quite a bit and this so far is the best damn Pad Thai we can come up with. We use Tamarind nectar in this recipe instead of tamarind since we have been unsuccessful finding it locally.

Ingredients:

1/2 c. white sugar and 1 1/2 [...]

Avocado Eggrolls

After having avocado egg rolls at the Cheesecake factory I had been searching for a good recipe to duplicate this outstanding dish. This one comes pretty damn close. These are super rich and super good. It’s not so much about the egg rolls mind you but the sauce. Pictured here with stir fried beef and [...]