April 27, 2010.   Categories Comfort Food, Light / Healthy, Poultry, Slowcooker / Crockpot, Soups.

Spicy Chicken-Vegetable & Cilantro Sausage Soup Sorry, no photos.  I made this yesterday on a whim and wasn’t prepared for it to be this good! It’s really simple and feels more like “assembly” then “cooking.”  This recipe is only to share with you what I did…. however you can make your own substitutions and variations depending upon your availability of ingredients.  The...

April 27, 2010.   Categories From www.goodbite.com, Pasta.

Recently I was asked by GoodBite.com and Philadelphia Cream Cheese to help promote a fun opportunity for home chefs! Introducing The Real Women of Philly campaign with Paula Deen! Paula is looking for the next big cooking stars! Home cooks are encouraged to send in their own videos for a chance to get to meet Paula Deen and win $25,000! To inspire you all to give it a shot and enter . . . eight of the GoodBite Contributing bloggers have...

April 27, 2010.   Categories Chef David Wells, Contributing Chefs, Light / Healthy, Salads, Vegetarian.

Shredded Carrot Salad with Toasted Almonds & Currents Recipe and photos reprinted with permission by Chef David Wells “Grandma Dave” www.grandmadave.com Chef David Wells never ceases to amaze me.  His limitless energy and passion for his family and his love of nutritional and delicious food is inspiring!  He posted this recipe on his newly enhanced website the other day and I… of course…...

April 25, 2010.   Categories Light / Healthy, Seafood, Smoking / Grilling.

Fresh Roasted Shrimp with Tarragon-Pistachio Butterby Chef Rima Olvera of “Duet” www.rimaolvera.com Chef Rima Olvera…. a friend of mine from high school who has become one of the finest chef’s in Europe.  She recently tortured me by letting me know she would have prepared this beautiful dish at a party I’m throwing this coming summer.  The only challenge is she currently lives in Israel and the party...

April 25, 2010.   Categories Comfort Food, Italian.

Homemade Meatballs  My husband Bill adores really good meatballs.  Spaghetti and meatballs…. meatball subs… just loves them.  He’s been asking me to make them for quite sometime and I’ve been putting them off. Why? Well, because there is something sacred to this guy about meatballs. The meatball sub for lunch is hollowed ground and he is the ultimate critic. I’ll admit it… I was intimidated by the...