Posts Tagged: Easy

Chicken Roasted Easy Style, Seasoned w/ Herbs Under the Skin

Under the skin, seasoned whole chicken

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…

Green Chili Cheese Soup

Vegetarian Soup w. Roasted Peppers

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.

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…

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…