Is there anything better than creamy pasta? How about creamy tomato pasta! I’m so excited about this pasta pomodoro recipe because it is basically everything I want to eat for dinner any night of the week. Big, hearty rigatoni noodles are coated in a tangy, luscious creamy tomato sauce. Plus, it’s a healthy bowl of pasta because there are quite a few yummy sautéed vegetables mixed in here as well....
Our hot wings recipe guarantees crispy and delicious wings. You are going to LOVE them. They are also perfect for serving a crowd. I especially love serving them with a side of homemade blue cheese dressing. For more chicken wing recipes, see our bbq wings, grilled wings, or these sweet chili wings. Or try my buffalo baked cauliflower wings. Key Ingredients Chicken wings: Depending on where you buy them, they are sold as the whole wing or separated into a drumstick and wingette....
In almost 6 years of food blogging, I have not shared a single Raita Recipe. That really is quite unbelievable because I make different types of raita almost every weekend. It’s a quick dish to put together and raita compliments both rice and roti based meals beautifully. While the basis of every Raita Recipe is the same, there are so many different ways you can make an Indian-style Raita. I follow a very basic Raita Recipe with a couple of vegetables thrown in along with some spices to jazz it up a bit....
When we want delicious, homemade bread without the effort of kneading and rising, we use this simple beer bread recipe. Here are a few reasons why beer bread is so amazing: Serve homemade beer bread with butter, honey butter, apple butter, pumpkin butter, soups, chili, or as an appetizer with cheese. The Best Beer for Beer Bread You do taste the beer used in this bread recipe, so use something you already enjoy the flavor of....
How to Make Breakfast Tacos with Major Sticking Power These breakfast tacos are ultra-satisfying, quick, and delicious. Adam and I both love them for breakfast, but to be completely honest, we love them so much that we’ve made them just as many times for dinner. Potatoes add a heartiness to these tacos. When we were playing around with this recipe, we wanted something fast and hearty. We knew we wanted to add potatoes, but the chopping and roasting usually associated with breakfast potatoes didn’t really work for us....
Whenever I have cherry tomatoes in the house, I save a handful to make this easy cherry tomato salad. It’s absolutely perfect. I love it so much that I could honestly eat it every day! The trick is quickly marinating the tomatoes in salt before adding the other salad ingredients. I use the same trick for this tomato mozzarella salad and our favorite caprese salad! Key Ingredients Cherry tomatoes: We designed this as a cherry tomato salad, but you can use any variety of tomato....
Classic eggplant parmesan calls for breading and frying eggplant slices, layering them with tomato sauce and cheese, then baking until bubbly – just like chicken parmesan! My version takes a shortcut: I roast the eggplant instead. I layer the perfectly cooked eggplant with parmesan, mozzarella, and tomato sauce, then top it with crunchy breadcrumbs. This easier eggplant parmesan tastes just as delicious, with no messy breading, and it’s a bit healthier, too!...
I truly love this easy gin fizz cocktail recipe. It’s so refreshing and light that I consider this the perfect summer cocktail! Another favorite is this classic mojito! We love the gin fizz so much that we have two more variations on Inspired Taste. See my rosemary gin fizz and this sloe gin fizz cocktail! Key Ingredients Gin: When making a gin fizz, choose a mid-to-high-shelf gin. A London dry gin (such as Beefeater) or Plymouth gin works well....
How to Make the Best Green Iced Tea We aren’t soda people (never have been), but iced tea, well that is our drink! We make black or regular iced tea all the time at home, but when we feel like something a bit different, this is what we turn too. It’s packed with antioxidants thanks to the green tea and is soothing from the mint. The key to extra flavorful iced tea is making it in advance....
Pin This bread pudding recipe happened quite randomly actually. I was chatting with my friend SJ and she was telling me how her mom was making bread pudding for her and her son. I asked for the recipe, she typed it out to me and I went into my kitchen soon after. An hour later, I had some fragrant and delicious looking bread pudding hot out of the oven. TH and I dug in soon after and we loved it!...
This falafel burger recipe comes from our friends Sonja and Alex’s new book Pretty Simple Cooking, and we’re completely obsessed with it! Unlike many veggie burger or falafel recipes, this one uses simple ingredients that you’ll be able to find in nearly any grocery store. It’s easy to put together, and it’s absolutely delicious. The patties have a nice hearty texture and a robust, aromatic flavor, thanks to a slew of spices and fresh herbs....
As I rummaged through my pantry last spring, I found a canister of black rice that I’d forgotten about. Jack and I hadn’t been to the store in weeks. After eating our way through boxes of pasta and bags of white rice, the black rice was an exciting change. Thanks to its nutty flavor and striking purple hue, black rice, also called forbidden rice, had been one of my favorite grains when we lived in Austin....
I just realized that I have a pattern of only posting cocktails on Fridays. I don’t know if it feels more socially appropriate that a cocktail should be a pre-weekend treat or if I’m trying to cover up the fact that I’m known to have a glass of wine (or two), on any given day(s) throughout the week. I like to celebrate the little wins in life, even if a “win” is just getting through an ordinary Monday....
This green pineapple smoothie has become my most recent breakfast kick. It’s super fresh, vibrant, and healthy, and it leaves me feeling energized at the start of the day. Between all the food that’s been around during our cookbook testing and all of the food I’m about to eat in Italy – I’ve tried to clean (and green) things up over the last few weeks. Cheesecakes and pizzas aside, I’ve gotten back to my salad-ey lunches and green drink routines....
This Monday, like no other, calls for a healthy start. We got home late Saturday night after spending the week in Chicago. We ate way too many things at way too many places… which is generally how our vacations go. The difference this time is that because we’re food blogging now, I’d make the excuse that we were eating in the name of “inspiration”, or even more ridiculous, “research.” While I might have brought home a few new ideas, I also brought home probably a few extra pounds....
Thank you to everyone who left well wishes last week about my poor thumb and helpful suggestions for my fighting-dog issue. I’m doing much better now. Since I was one hand down last week my wonderful husband took over and cooked this lovely meal for us. Sunday night, I sat back and drank wine while Jack carefully peeled, chopped, prepped, and grilled. I surely did not make fun of him for how long it could possibly take one to trim a pepper, and I tried hard to keep my “helpful suggestions” to a minimum....
Are you feeling as stuffed as I am? This year we actually celebrated Thanksgiving a week early with Jack’s family – yet I’m still full from his mom’s amazing apple pie and the leftovers we’ve been snacking on all week. This weekend, I’m craving food that’s a little bit healthier but still comforting and delicious so I thought I’d share just a few ideas: Butternut Squash & Leek Risotto (pictured) Spaghetti Squash with Chickpeas & Kale (pictured) Butternut Squash & Tart Cherry Quinoa Sweet Potato Pomegranate Salad Roasted Acorn Squash with Pears and Miso Dressing from Edible Perspective Sweet Potato Ravioli with Kale Pesto from The First Mess Butternut Squash Lasagna from My New Roots Stuffed Za’atar Roasted Acorn Squash from Dolly and Oatmeal Kale and Roasted Red Kuri Squash Salad from A House in the Hills Northern Spy’s Kale Salad from Food 52 Roasted Delicata Squash Salad from 101 Cookbooks
How to Make the Best Chocolate Truffles These chocolate truffles are rich, creamy and smooth. After years of making chocolate truffles with chocolate and cream, we stumbled across a recipe that replaces the cream and uses egg yolks instead. Bowl after bowl of decadent melted chocolate and lots of truffles later, we’ve come to the conclusion that this, without fail, is the best chocolate truffles recipe. The inspiration for these truffles comes from Alice Medrich....
Homemade chocolate ice-cream! This is a recipe to make rich, creamy chocolate ice cream without eggs using an ice cream maker, at home. Phew. What better way to bring in a new year than with ice cream, that too chocolate ice cream, right? So I made this couple weekends ago and saved it to share on the first day of 2014. I wish you all a wonderful new year 🙂 You may also like 3-ingredient eggless mango ice cream recipe and delicious blueberry cheesecake ice-cream below....
Wait! Don’t toss that stale bread on your counter. Use it to make homemade breadcrumbs instead! Up until recently, Jack and I rarely had stale bread hanging around the house. We just weren’t bread people. Every so often, we’d get a good crusty loaf to enjoy with a pot of soup, or Jack would make his own bread for a fun weekend project. But regular old sandwich bread? Nope, we never had it on hand....
