Can You Hear It? This Recipe Is Calling Your Name When I think of spring and summer foods my mind instantly goes to strawberry shortcake and cold pasta salads. I’m not sure if that’s a Midwest thing (I grew up in Wisconsin) or it’s fairly universal but I have yet to meet a person who [...]
Can Millions Of Trendy Californians Be Wrong? How many of you have come to view salad as something of a nuisance, a necessary course that must be suffered through in order to get to the “good parts” of your meal, namely the entrée and dessert? If this is the way you are thinking about salads, [...]
Delicious Green Bean Fries Are the Perfect Way to Sneak In Some Veggies Have you ever wanted just one specific thing from a restaurant, but not been willing to go out and get it? It’s not an entrée that’s worth sitting down for, and you really don’t even want to leave your house – you [...]
With Only 4 Ingredients, These Cool-As-A-Cucumber Rolls Are Smokin’ Hot! I know that I can always count on Dina for easy-to-prepare recipes for scrumptious, visually-stunning dishes. Just look at the vibrant greens and pinks in these Smoked Salmon Cucumber Rolls! Aren’t they gorgeous? If you set these out on the buffet table at your next [...]
How Could Anything This Scrumptious Actually Be Good for You? Quinoa (pronounced (KEEN-wah) is an ancient grain-like edible seed of a plant in the goosefoot plant family, which grows in the Andes Mountains, mainly in Bolivia and Peru. People have been eating it for thousands of years. Although it is really a seed, and not [...]
A Different Type of Sandwich You Can Serve in Less Than 20 Minutes I am always in search of interesting, easy and quick sandwiches to make for myself and others. I get bored eating the same old thing, day-after-day, week-in and week-out. I imagine there are many of you that feel the same way. This [...]
Cool & Delicious on a Hot Summer Day Summer is the time of year when we tend to eat healthier food. It is usually too hot to do extended cooking sessions, so we look for light and satisfying dishes to prepare. The heat often robs us of our appetites, anyway. The cucumber adds a light, [...]
Fruit? In a Soup, You Say! What’s the World Coming To? I know, I know! Soup is the very last thing you are thinking of having for dinner on a hot summer’s night. But what if the soup was cool and refreshing, a little bit sweet and a little bit spicy? Would that change your [...]
Yes, It’s True, Spices Do Have a Cooling Effect Recipe creator Jen says, “Some people escape in dreams of sandy beaches and sunny skies, I escape in dreams of mangoes, chipotle peppers and bacon.” What a great introduction for this recipe! Summertime can be quite difficult to endure. Kids are out of school and underfoot. [...]
Like the Restaurant Version, Only Better You might as well confess. We’ve all done this before – waited in line among a teeming, noisy crowd at this popular restaurant because you just had to have that Oriental Chicken Salad of theirs. Have you ever asked yourself if they put some kind of addictive drug in [...]