Recent Recipes
Spinach Salad: Monday, May 26, 2025
The early harvest of spinach is available. Tonight’s dinner salad pairs new spinach with a variety of textures including fresh fennel, shredded carrots and chopped smoky tempeh. It’s topped with toasted sliced almonds, savory hard boiled eggs and buttery avocado slices. The salad is served with an easy honey mustard dressing and an artisan roll of your choice.
Broccoli Enchiladas: Sunday, May 25, 2025
Tonight, broccoli is the focus of this ancient Mexican delicacy. The broccoli is bathed in a light béchamel sauce flavored with lemon, oregano and a touch of nutmeg. Sweet onion, peppers, garlic and chopped chicken (or plant based choice) complete the enchilada filling.
The dish is covered with a tasty red enchilada sauce and served with homemade tomato salsa. Spicy Rice and an avocado/citrus salad finish the plate.
This is an excellent meal for dinner guests as it can be prepared ahead of time.
Hawaiian Pizza: Friday, May 23, 2025
It’s Pizza Friday! I find this combination of toppings very satisfying. Refreshing Hawaiian Pizza with thin ham slices and fresh pineapple is headed to your table. Use Canadian bacon or plant-based ham slices for this crowd pleaser. Cheers!
ASPGY Pasta: Thursday, May 22, 2025
ASPGY? That’s not a typo. It’s simply the acronym for Apples, Spinach, Pine Nuts, Gorgonzola and Yogurt Pasta. It’s a delicious, and not too rich, yogurt-based Gorgonzola pasta. The sauce cradles baby spinach and Granny Smith apples. It’s topped with toasted pine nuts and fresh tomato. OMG it’s good!
Dinner Salad with Salmon, Quinoa and Asian Dressing: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
As the days grow longer and warmer, put a little “spring” in your step with this salmon dinner salad. This one has a chorus of textures and flavors. Tonight crisp fresh lettuce, crunchy cucumber, popping cherry tomatoes and chewy sliced fennel harmonize with zingy mango. The salmon delivers a melody line to savor while the Asian dressing provides a memorable accompaniment.
Grilled Polenta with Puttanesca Sauce: Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Puttanesca sauce is a favorite in my house. Puttanesca is usually a spicy sauce using seasonal vegetables. We get many of tonight’s “seasonal” vegetables year-round in our supermarkets.
This version of Puttanesca sauce also has some plant-based Italian sausage thrown in to ratchet up the spicy element.
We’ll use leftover polenta and marinara sauce tonight.