Category: Quick & Easy

Baked Stuffed Peaches

Baked Stuffed Peaches! Get ready for a big blast of summer. You must, MUST make these while fresh peaches are in season. The peaches at my store were so perfectly ripe that you could smell

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Mexican Grilled Corn (Elote)

Have you had Mexican Grilled Corn or Elote yet? In my personal experience (we’ve had it twice this week), you don’t have to have it more than once to become completely and hopelessly addicted. It’s

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Cool Watermelon Salad

Cool Watermelon Salad is my latest funky salad addiction. We’ve been down this funky salad road together before with Strawberry Rhubarb Salad, Marinated Cactus Salad, Crunchy Celery Salad, and more, so you know that when I jump on a

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Shrimp Mexicana

Shrimp Mexicana or Camarones a la Mexicana is the recipe that I made to go with the Plantains I featured last week. I like to make theme dinners every now and then and this recipe seemed easy

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Plantains (Platanos)

I’ve had several people ask me about Plantains lately so I thought they deserved their own post. Plantains or Platanos (yes, that first “a” will get the proper accent when I get home to my

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Strawberry Mango Salsa

I was going to wait to publish this recipe because we just had Pineapple Salsa a week or so ago. But when I posted that recipe, I mentioned that I was on a kick of putting together

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Crockpot Mexican Chicken

Crockpot Mexican Chicken might be the only reason we had any food to eat at our house this past week. As a musician, I have times (fall & spring in particular) when I’m ridiculously busy

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Chocolate Pots de Créme

Chocolate Pots de Créme is one of my favorite fancy desserts. It doesn’t take very advanced French skills to recognize the goodness that would come in a little pot of cream. Add chocolate to that

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Pineapple Salsa with Grilled Salmon

This started off just as a recipe for Pineapple Salsa but Copper River Salmon is in season so I thought we’d combine the two. Pineapple Salsa with Grilled Salmon is just about as good, vibrant, and

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Strawberry Rhubarb Salad

Are you ready for another one of my crazy, funky salads? Strawberry Rhubarb Salad is here! Before you click away, hear me out… I have not always been a big fan of rhubarb. It’s usually

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Yummy Oven Glazed Chicken

Yummy Oven Glazed Chicken! We had a hard time naming this one. Probably because we were too busy stuffing ourselves full of chicken. Yummy Chicken, Awesome Chicken, Nom Nom Nom Stop Talking To Me I’m

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Potato Crusted Fish

Potato Crusted Fish is another genius idea from my trusty, giant Jacques Pepin Cookbook. I know those look like hash browns…and that’s really the beauty of this recipe. Hash browns meet fish and great things

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Curried Mango Quinoa Salad

Curried Mango Quinoa is one of my all time favorite salads. By now we all know about quinoa. It’s low fat, high protein, great for those of us who are gluten free, and highly adaptable to

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