Sheet Pan Sausage with Peppers, Onions and Potatoes
Sheet-pan recipes have become popular for a good reason. You can prepare an entire meal in one fell swoop with only one pan to wash up....
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Tomato Green Bean Salad
This salad is the Recipe of the Day in today's NYT Food section. I made it when it was first published in early summer and was happy to...
Orzo Salad with Peppers and Feta
This next weekend we're kicking off America's final summer holiday: Labor Day. In lieu of traditional mayonnaise-laden and calorie-packed...
15-Minute Chicken Shawarma Bowls
As its name suggests, this is not your average American winner-winner chicken dinner, but fear not. It's from a trustworthy cooking...
Grilled Chicken with Tomatoes and Corn
Grilled chicken is a quintessential summer dinner. This recipe, from Ali Slagle of the New York Times, takes it up a notch with juicy...
Watermelon, Mint & Feta Salad
When I was a child, we ate watermelon cut into big wedges for dessert. We had as much fun picking out the seeds with our fingers as we...
Air-Fryer (or Oven-roasted) Chicken Tenders
I've tried several recipes for healthy-ish chicken fingers, trying to avoid ones cooked in lots of fat. Most recipes are roasted in a hot...
Greek Chicken Tray Bake
Tray bake (the British term for sheet pan) dinners have become very popular for several reasons: preparation is straightforward and...
Lemon Chicken with Tomato, Olive and Feta Salad
This Mediterranean-inspired recipe hails from the Weight Watchers recipe box. It's crazy low in calories/WW Points and is a longstanding...
Roasted Tomatoes with White Beans and Basil (and More!)
We think of tomatoes as a vegetable but botanically they're actually a fruit because they grow from the flower of a plant and contain...
Black bean, Corn & Pepper Salad
I found this super-easy, delicious salad in a 1993 edition of the Sunset All-Time Favorite Recipes cookbook. I'm originally from Northern...
Lentil Salad
I know that lentils aren't everyone's favorite legume. But let's face facts: despite their less-than-appealing appearance, they're an...
Sicilian Spaghetti with Tuna & Capers
At a recent Weight Watchers workshop, a member remarked that she had prepared Sicilian Spaghetti with Tuna from the latest WW cookbook,...
Vegetable Orzo Pasta Salad
Several years ago Ina Garten published a roasted vegetable and orzo pasta salad that contained tomatoes and bell peppers and was topped...
Mexican Chicken with Zucchini, Corn and Black Beans
Cinco de Mayo is just around the corner with lots of tempting, cheesy, high-fat entrees to tempt Mexican food lovers. For those of us who...
Spring Chicken Nicoise
Last evening we enjoyed our first al fresco meal of the year. This cool salad that I adapted from the Martha Stewart kitchens was an...
Shrimp Scampi with Broccoli Orzo
In this delightful recipe adapted from Skinnytaste.com, broccoli florets are cooked together in the same pot with orzo pasta resulting in...
Turkey Chili
What was life like before the Internet? I can't remember anymore. Today, in the 21st century, I spend my days with my BFF Siri, who tells...
Eat-the-Rainbow Vegetable Soup
On a warm and sunny Spring day last year I posted a recipe for Eat-the-Rainbow Salad. Two days later it snowed. Eating cold salad while...
Instant Pot Chicken Vegetable Soup
My first recipe for 2023 -- chicken vegetable soup -- is made with frozen mixed vegetables, because who wants to chop vegetables on...
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