This light and fresh grilled chicken is topped with balsamic marinated tomatoes, fresh basil, and creamy mozzarella cheese. Not to mention, you only need five simple ingredients to pull off this healthy dinner! This quick and easy five-ingredient dinner is the perfect recipe for when you’re craving something healthy, fresh, and super-satisfying! Sweet cherry tomatoes…
30 Minutes or Less
Grilled Swordfish Kebabs with Green Goddess Yogurt
Fresh and summery (indoor) grilled swordfish with fluffy couscous, fresh herbs, and creamy green-goddess yogurt sauce! Sadly, my tiny apartment does not accommodate an outdoor grill. If you’re in the same boat, or you just don’t feel like firing up a grill, I have the solution for you. I love, love, love my indoor grill…
Spring Couscous Salad with Feta, Avocado & Fresh Herbs
A zesty and fresh, chilled Israeli couscous salad with avocado, snap peas, and fresh herbs. Serve it as a side dish to grilled meat or fish or all on its own as a healthy and hearty lunch! This recipe was inspired by a recent trip to the farmers market. It’s totally fair to say I…
Sweet and Spicy Sheet Pan Pizza with Soppressata + Honey
What makes this pizza so special? After taking this bubbling, cheesy, spicy soppressata pizza from the oven, it’s drizzled with honey! Spicy soppressata and sweet, golden honey is a surprising but delicious combination you must try! Have you ever heard of a “bee sting” pizza? I hadn’t until a recent dinner at one of my…
Bucatini al Limone with Wilted Kale
Creamy, lemony bucatini tossed with wilted kale, parmesan cheese and lots of freshly cracked black pepper! This super-simple recipe for bucatini al limone is a perfect pasta dish to add to your weekly dinner rotation. I always have lemons, parmesan cheese, dried pasta, and kale on hand. Toss all of that together with a little…
Fried Plantains
Fried plantains are salty and crispy on the outside, sweet and soft on the inside! Serve them with your favorite Cuban, Caribbean or South American Dishes. Fried plantains are served with almost every meal in Caribbean countries, Cuba, and parts of South America. Plantains look like large bananas. They have a subtle banana flavor to…
Roasted Snap Peas with Yogurt and Garlic Chili Oil
Creamy Greek yogurt topped with crispy roasted snap peas and garlicky chili oil! Serve this roasted snap pea side dish with roast chicken, beef or fish! If you’ve never roasted sugar snap peas before this is the recipe to try! They become crispy and slightly charred in the oven. Serve them on a bed of…
Easy! Jalapeño Black Beans
Starting with canned beans makes this recipe so quick and easy! Jalapeño black beans are the perfect side dish for all of your favorite Mexican recipes! Back when I was a full-time private chef for a family of four we used to have a tradition of “Taco Monday”, ( I didn’t work on Tuesdays). The…
Lemony Arugula + Walnut Pesto
Bright and lemony arugula pesto with toasted walnuts, parmesan cheese, garlic, and olive oil. Perfect for tossing with fresh pasta, slathering over grilled bread, vegetables, meats, and fish. News flash! Pesto doesn’t always need to be made with basil and pinenuts! In fact, you can try out endless combinations of fresh herbs, nuts, and seeds….
Creamy Parmesan Polenta
Creamy, buttery polenta with parmesan cheese is the perfect side dish for braised short ribs, poached eggs and sausage or just about any roasted chicken, beef or pork dish you can dream up! How to make Creamy Parmesan Polenta→ Step One: Bring the chicken stock to a simmer and whisk in the polenta.Step Two: Continue…
