Here is an appetizer recipe that will please just about everyone on your guest list. Bursting with ginger, garlic, soy and cilantro, they are baked and then covered in a sweet and spicy sauce. They hold up well in a chafing dish and are terrific when skewered with pineapple chunks and pea pods. If there happen to be any leftovers, they are delicious in a wrap for lunch the next day or over rice for dinner! Read More
Sweet potato cakes
Sweet potatoes are tasty, inexpensive and chock full of vitamins A, C, B2, B6 and an army of other dietary friends. But they can be a bit, well, sweet, and bland, and when made into fries or chips, they are downright soggy. Here is a simple recipe which avoids all of those pitfalls. Read More
B-L-T salad with croutons
This salad is so very tasty and nostalgic and a terrific way to use up some of those summer tomatoes. And, oh those croutons, pure deliciousness. It’s not healthy, let’s not even pretend that, but boy, is it worth the indulgence every so often– Read More
Cute little quinoa patties!
So quinoa is now so widely available it has been spotted at Costco. What can we do with it, beyond plunking a mound of it next to our grilled chicken breast? Here is one recipe almost as miraculous as the grain itself. Tasty, low fat, plus child and adult approved, it can be made ahead, freezes like a charm, and is remarkably versatile: