This bean dip is fabulous! It’s healthy, low in calories, and easy to make! How could you go wrong? This can be whipped up in a matter of 5-10 minutes for a last minute appetizer. You can serve it with baked tortilla chips, veggie chips, pita chips or pita, crackers, and really whatever you would [...]
There are many variations to orzo pasta salad that are pretty similar in their basic idea, they contain a green, a dried fruit, a nut, possibly a cheese, oil, and then some sort of acid, be it vinegar or lemon juice or something to the like. I have made several different combinations of these items [...]
Another delicious dish with one of my favorite new ingredients, quinoa! I seriously have a line up of 7 or 8 dishes involving quinoa just waiting to be tried. It’s good for breakfast, it’s good for lunch, dinner, whenever. I really don’t know what my obsession really is with this quinoa is, I think it’s [...]
Last night I made some manicotti that turned out very tasty. The mushrooms in it gave it a nice hearty replacement for the meat. They are pretty simple to make as well.
1 8 0z box of manicotti shells
2 eggs
1 1/2 c ricotta cheese
1 cup cottage cheese
2-3 cloves garlic
6 0z button mushrooms, chopped ( I used [...]
Tuna is an odd thing for me. I’m not a fan of seafood, of any variety really. I’ve tried it many times, and I just don’t like it. Tuna, is one thing that I can tolerate, but only once in a while, like maybe twice a year, and then I have some reservations [...]