Use time efficiently by implementing this recipe, preparing a healthy, delicious meal with minimal work. Make a double or triple batch of the herb mix, and season several birds all at once, to be especially efficient. The pre-seasoned birds will keep in the freezer, ready to thaw and roast at a future date. A blender…
Posts Tagged: Easy
Caramel Apples: Homemade is Easy (Skip the Kraft Stuff!)
All you need are some apples, some sugar, and cream (plus toppings of choice)- make your own caramel apples this holiday season!
Green Chili Cheese Soup
This quick, easy soup recipe has tomato, potatoes (or sub hominy), plus toasted cumin seeds. Home-roasting the peppers is easy enough, or use canned for a real quick meal.
Pumpkin Streusel: Easy Holiday Dessert, Healthy Style
Skip the typical box mix used in many streusel toppings; make homemade box cake mix to top this pumpkin custard. No pie crust to roll out- easy AND delicious!
Easy, Healthier “Chocolate Graham Cake” Recipe, Paleo-ish!
This is a fairly quick, easy cake recipe, and provides a somewhat healthier version of the standard chocolate cake. Fresh-ground whole wheat flour is ideal; by using whole grain flour, coconut palm sugar to sweeten, and a hearty portion of eggs, it will be less likely to produce a carb overload! I call it a…
Zucchini Soup Recipe (Putting that Garden Produce to Work!)
Bogged down with garden zucchinis? Need a way to use ’em that’s healthy, and not loaded with sugar, flour, and bad fats?! Add frozen artichoke hearts, make EASY soup!
Caramel Sauce- Easy Dessert (Just Sugar, Cream, & Ice Cream)
With some ice-cream, sugar, and cream on hand, one can pull together an awesome dessert in no time! This is one of those quick and easy recipes; a perfect dessert choice for special occasions when time runs out. For a larger amount, increase quantities and use a larger pan. For a variation, substitute butter for…
Chicken Salad w/Caramelized Walnuts (A New Deli Classic)
If you’re cooking for a crowd, multiply this recipe. It’s definitely a crowd pleaser; we serve it regularly at The New Deli. Part of the secret to using raisins: they get soaked overnight in red wine vinegar. It gives them the perfect sweet/sour flavor, plus, it keeps the raisins from soaking up mayonnaise (which doesn’t…
Chocolate Fix (Easy to add to Smoothies- High-Octane Fuel!)
Update: I think Michael Pollan has made a great point, about how raw foods don’t always release as many nutrients as properly cooked foods (article here). So I toast my raw cacao nibs first, for 10-15 minutes in a 375 degree oven (and then 10 more minutes with the oven off), until darker-colored. They then…
Fourth of July, Paleo-Style (Awesome Deviled Eggs)
I knew we’d need a snack before the 4th of July barbeque was finished. I also knew that at least a few of us were going “Paleo”, and were avoiding stuff like store-bought mayo. These deviled eggs were perfect!