Telling food stories, one kitchen at a time
Pan-Poached Tilapia with Lemon Caper Sauce is a 25-minute foolproof recipe for any weeknight dinner. Forget about gluten free and sugar free, let’s talk about the tender, flaky fish, the salty capers, and the sweet tomatoes. And you can be sure I’m drizzling it all with a smooth, succulent, buttery sauce.
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I’m not even gonna pretend like I didn’t eat all of these myself. I know you guys look forward to my entertainment for a few paragraphs before I get all serious about the food, but forget it. Smoked Salmon, Dill, and Horseradish Tartlets deserve top priority. The perfectly cooked crust, the salty, smoky, slightly spicy, herby, eggy filling. Oh. My. Gawh.
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Broccoli Chicken Pizza with Sun-Dried Tomatoes reminds me of the casseroles Mom made when I was a kid. This pizza recipe is made with an almond flour crust making it gluten free and sugar free.
Let’s face it. How much can I say about pizza? Pizza: America’s favorite food. I could make pizzas all day in a thousand different combinations and I do it often because it’s absolutely the most fabulous way to use up leftover ingredients. (You could go healthier and make a salad, but let’s pretend I haven’t thought of that.) And so my latest creation is Broccoli Chicken Pizza with Sun-Dried Tomatoes.
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This is one of those salads where it’s mostly the good stuff. You know what I mean. This salad is mostly toppings and then there’s some leafy things for good measure. But, ya know, the point of this salad isn’t the leafy stuff or else, instead of Golden Beet Couscous Salad, it would be called Leaf Salad with Beets and Radishes. Or something like that. You get my point.
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Chipotles in adobo sauce, friends. That’s where it’s at. One-Pot Chipotle Sweet Potato Chili is super simple (you’re welcome), but then you take it up a notch with those chipotles. Eating it is giving me goosebumps and making my nose runny. I know that’s a really weird thing to say and may not sound at all desirable when we’re talking about food, but that heat – it goes down and spreads out and warms your body in the best way. Don’t fight it. And really, don’t fight it because it takes only 20 – that’s TWENTY(!) – minutes to make One-Pot Chipotle Sweet Potato Chili, so why not?!
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I’m not entirely sure I even like papaya. But I just ate a ridiculous amount of Shrimp and Green Papaya Salad.
I typed that first sentence about 6 hours ago and here I am eating another RIDICULOUS amount of this Green* Papaya Salad. It’s healthy though, so I’m okay, right? Literally. cannot. stop.
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How do you put the most incredible week of your life into words? How do you condense it into 20 pictures or less? I’m never at a loss for words — not when I’ve got my virtual pen to paper. But here I am…
I suppose I could start by writing about the food… Easy Thai Coconut Curry Noodles (Khao Soi) was one of our first meals on that side of the Pacific and easily one of my top two for the week. I craved it for the duration of our vacation, but was determined not to eat the same thing twice. Now that I’m home, I’m Americanizing and easifying it and adding it to the regular dinner rotation.
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I really honestly never thought I’d feel this way about a quinoa salad. But oh-my-dear Citrus Avocado Quinoa Salad with Honey Walnuts, will you marry me? I think you are beautiful and colorful. You are sweet and bright and rich. You’re crisp and creamy and juicy. You are simplistically complex in a nearly impossible way. You are a dish that I have only ever met in my dreams and yet, here you are….
