Recent Recipes
Kale and White Bean Summer Surprise: Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Pick up some red kale for this gobsmackingly good summer salad. I suggest red kale for this recipe but any kale will work.
Every bite of this salad is a surprise of flavor and texture. Your tastebuds will get hits of mint, basil, coconut, fresh pineapple, toasted sliced almonds and dried sour cherries. It’s tossed with the finely chopped kale and white beans. What a treat!
Here’s a meal to linger over with your favorite beverage as you and your friends solve world problems.
Chef’s Salad: Tuesday, July 1, 2025
You’re “Puttin’ on the Ritz” tonight. In the 1940s, Chef Louis Diat, chef of the Ritz Carlton in New York City, created this salad for customers requesting a light, off-menu dinner salad. He probably got his inspiration from the 17th century cold-cut-laden family-style salad plate called Salmagundi.
Today it’s recognized as one of the great American dinner salad creations. In this presentation, hardboiled egg, plant-based cold cuts and crisp fresh salad ingredients adorn the individual dinner plates.
Broccoli/Cashew Stir-fry: Monday, June 30, 2025
Broccoli is still in season. It’s featured in a tasty stir-fry with roasted cashews, browned
mushrooms, red bell peppers, onions, crunchy water chestnuts and fresh pineapple. I call it a broccolishous combo. It’s served over coconut rice.
You’re the chef so you’ll get the kudos.
Baked Salmon with Roasted New Potatoes: Sunday June 29, 2025
Salmon baked with ponzu sauce and topped with fresh cilantro is the feature on tonight’s plate. It’s paired with roasted new rosemary potatoes. A tasty mix of new carrots and sugar snap peas round out the fresh flavors of this meal.
Spanish Beans and Rice with Broccoli: Friday June 27, 2025
Tonight we’ll share a time-tested and healthy south-of–the-border beans and rice dish. This version of beans and rice also includes a seasonal lemon broccoli which brings extra flavor, color and interest to the plate.
Use leftover homemade salsa from the fridge or commercial tomato salsa.
Seasonal Greens with Tzatziki Sauce: Wednesday, June 25, 2025
We’re dining on Chard with Tzatziki Sauce tonight. I love the crisp freshness of this version of greens. It’s a light, refreshing and easy-to-make, multilayered meal. It features chard served over quinoa with sliced Chick’n and Tzatziki Sauce.
Garnish the plates with some crumbled feta cheese and chopped fresh tomato.