Zuppa Toscana Recipe

I love eating something in a restaurant and challenging myself to make the same dish at home. Sometimes I try to “clean it up,” or sometimes I just like to make it more my style with ingredients I like better. I very often get requests or suggestions from my students such as, “I had this […]

Thanksgiving Leftovers Salad with Cranberry Sauce Vinaigrette Recipe

Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, we have our leftovers traditions.  For breakfast, my daughters dig into pie and Hubs toasts leftover cornbread to eat with coffee.  I do a scramble of chopped leftovers and tofu.  Then lunch is some sort of chopped leftovers salad with or without a stuffing waffle (take stuffing and […]

Roasted Vegetables with Carrot Romesco Sauce Recipe

If you are hosting Thanksgiving or you are going to a potluck and need a new dish, I’ve got you covered.  First off, I must mention that my new updated 2022 Thanksgiving ebook is available!!  It has 10 new recipes from last year’s ebook with a total of OVER 100 recipes in one PDF with […]

Cod Acqua Pazza Recipe (vegan option, too!)

If you’ve been hanging out here long enough, you know that my favorite night of the year is Christmas Eve at my Aunt Sheila’s house with my dad’s family – all 100+ of us.  It’s a fun night with all the traditions I grew up with: a million fish dishes, carols being sung while waiting […]

Mixed Greens With Green Beans, Almonds and Dried Cherry Vinaigrette Recipe

I almost saved this recipe to post in November for Thanksgiving.  You can certainly print it and file it away in your Thanksgiving binder, but I find that recipes bookmarked for Thanksgiving never see the light of day outside of the holiday.  I never make stuffing, mashed potatoes, pumpkin pie, corn pudding, and many other […]