Recipes: Tomato

Spicy Halibut Ceviche

April 2nd, 2013

Ok ladies and gentlemen. I am really trying here. Like this is a healthy streak for me and I am trying to see it through, if even just for the week.

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Spicy Tomato Crab Soup

March 6th, 2013

Helllllllooooo loooooover…… Oh, excuse me. I was talking to my soup. My velvety, tomatoey, luscious, creamy, SPIIIIICYYYYYY soup. Topped with fresh, sweet crab, and tiny crunchy mustard seeds. It’s beautiful, delicious, and seriously spicy. Just the way I like it. (If you are less interested in feeling the burn, just cut down or omit the…

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Skillet Baked Stuffed Rigatoni

February 17th, 2013

My sister-in-law Natalie bought me a skillet last month. A real, old-fashioned cast iron skillet. Natalie knows about this stuff since she is from the south and still cooks with her grandmother’s skillets. I’m excited to use this thing. A lot. I already roasted chicken in it and have made this cornbread a couple times….

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Vegetarian Chili

January 9th, 2013

This is like the week of fast and easy (oh and delicious!!) recipes. Everything has been 30 minutes or less this week. Not because I am pulling a Rachel Ray, but because I live in this crazy little place called REAL LIFE!!! And it turns out my real life is pretty freaking busy right now, and I need good food f-a-s-t.

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gigantes

January 4th, 2013

So, um, like 2 ½ years ago (yikes! time flies…) I tried to make Gigantes (Giant Greek Beans). The problem was, I couldn’t find the beans themselves, so I had to buy cannellini beans, which, are just definitely not giant. And then my Greek mother-in-law outlined the ingredients over the phone for me, but not…

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Kale Caesar Salad with Grilled Chicken Wrap

January 2nd, 2013

This wrap changed my mind about kale. In a good way…

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Spicy Tomato Lentil Soup

January 1st, 2013

Haaaaappy Neeeeeew Yeeeeeear!!!!

I hope that you are all happy and healthy and snuggled up on a couch somewhere with the people that you love.

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Pizza Rolls

December 7th, 2012

I’m attempting to keep my promise of some savory dishes mixed in among my gluttonous desire for non stop Christmas cookies and bed pillows made from gingerbread cupcakes I bring you these (druuuuuum rooooollll please!!!!!) Pizza Rolls! Not like freezer style pizza rolls- like made from scratch, fluffy tender dinner rolls flecked with garlic and…

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Pork Ragu (and a giveaway!)

November 2nd, 2012

Pork Ragu.

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Tomato Zucchini Soup

September 26th, 2012

Sorry a little late on the post today. Ok, I am writing this from somewhere over the Atlantic, while I ingest bloody mary’s and try not to cry over leaving my little kids for a week. Or cry about the fact that I couldn’t figure out why I felt like I was forgetting something, until…

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