Our weeknight dinners are super simple this week, and most of our meals can be put together in about 15 minutes. During the day, I’ll be in the kitchen developing new recipes for spring menus (think peas, leeks, asparagus) and photographing recipes to post on the site. I have a couple fun collaborations with other food writers…
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Super Simple Salad Dressing
There’s a simple way to amp up your dinner game: Make your own salad dressing. You heard me, right? Just checking. It takes five minutes to make a super simple salad dressing, which uses only four ingredients that you should have stocked in your pantry or fridge. The return on flavor, not to mention the…
Weeknight Dinners: February 27-March 3
Our menus have been very “clean” lately, because we aren’t cooking with wheat, soy, corn, dairy or beef (and a long list of other items). I don’t want my family to really notice a huge change in our dinner routine, so I’ve been scouring the internet for flavorful, allergy-free family meals. I’ve also been tweaking some of our family…
Gluten-Free and Nut-Free Granola
This tasty gluten-free and nut-free granola (and egg-free and dairy-free) is super simple to put together. It’s full of flavor and sweetness from vanilla, maple syrup, raw honey and cinnamon. Hemp hearts add protein, and gluten-free oats, sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds add fiber and crunch. It’s adaptable — if you can eat nuts, add slivered almonds, walnuts or…
Gluten-free almond cake
I like to drum up excuses to make this almond cake for Sunday night dessert so I can slice away at it for the rest of the week. Morning coffee and a slice of almond cake to go? Yes! Lunchbox treat? Yes! Afternoon hangries? You get the picture… I like it best with two cups of ripe blackberries folded into…
Green Bean, Red Pepper and Carrot Slaw
Last week I taught a class to a few women in Los Angeles who are no novices in the kitchen. But I stuck with my usual fare. Simple, good food that tends to be healthy but doesn’t follow any particular diet. This is one of our favorites from the class, a colorful green bean slaw that fills the “eat the…
Spatchcocked Chicken
Spatchcocked Chicken to the Rescue Spring is here, which feels like riding a bike downhill with no handlebars. We’ve been running in circles at our house, getting to Little League games, dance recital rehearsals, planning two April birthday parties and trying to figure out what everyone will be doing this summer before all the decent day camps are…