Dinner
Don’t Worry, Be Crabby! This recipe is both quick and easy to prepare. The resulting crab melts are delicious, and could be enjoyed as a light lunch, for brunch, or for dinner with a side salad or bowl of soup (chilled soup in warmer weather, of course). This recipe is perfect for those hot days [...]
Don’t Pesto Me….and Stop Calling Me Shrimp! Of all the types of seafood that I have come to know and love – all types of fish, swordfish, crab, calamari, oysters, and clams - shrimp has to be my favorite, hands down. I am absolutely certain that I could eat my weight in shrimp! With the [...]
Sea Meets Citrus, Sweetly, In This Quick & Easy Recipe Do you have picky eaters in your family? The kind who turn up their noses at the very thought of eating fish? If you do, this is the dish to serve that will change their minds. This quick and easy salmon dish tastes like a [...]
Did Ernest Hemingway Eat This? Key West is an island city in the Florida Keys Archipelago. It is the southernmost point in Florida, and in the contiguous United States. On a clear day, it is said you can almost see Cuba, which is only 90 miles away. If the Earth was flat, you might actually [...]
The Most Popular Recipe on the Internet! Every cook worth his or her salt has a meatloaf recipe. Many guard their meatloaf recipe like it was a national treasure, only sharing it with family members and their closest friends. Meatloaf recipes are the most popular on the internet, for the simple reason that meatloaf is [...]
This Will Make You Feel as Good as Mashed Potatoes! Ah, chili mac! Was there ever a finer use for macaroni, beef, cheese and tomato sauce? It both plagued and enriched my formative years. There was a thoroughly hideous version of chili mac that was served once every week in my school cafeteria. It was [...]
Easier Than Cracking an Egg! Okay, just how many versions of your “standard” side dishes have you rotated through your dinner menus? Thousands of dishes of potatoes, green beans, peas, corn and carrots, I imagine. Don’t you think it is high time for something new and different? “But my family won’t eat mushrooms!” you wail, [...]
Quick & Easy Treat From the Sea Scallops are one of the most tender, delicate and mild-tasting shellfish known as mollusks. Other mollusks are clams, oysters and mussels. If scallops are on the menu, I almost always order them. I enjoy their slightly sweet taste and their somewhat firm texture that resembles poultry. They don’t [...]
It May Sound Corny, But You’ll Love This! Yes, it is summer. Yes, this is soup. Now you might not think of eating soup in the summertime, but that is the exact time when corn has ripened to perfection and is readily available from roadside stands and the produce section of your local market. If [...]
Easiest Chicken Recipe on the Internet! Do you think you have tried every chicken recipe in existence? Do you feel that you have to add fancy ingredients and time-consuming prep methods to create a mouth-watering chicken dish that your whole family will love? Nothing could be further from the truth, my chicken-challenged friends! This recipe [...]