Tag Archive: parmesan

tasty tuesday: pan-seared cod with basil sauce

I keep saying that I need to have more fish in my diet so I’m always on the look out for great fish recipes that are easy and tasty. With my new cookbook (thanks Mom!), I’ve got a few more to discover. Check out this delicious dinner from Cooking Light’s The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook…

tasty tuesdays: chicken tetrazzini

My sweet mom bought me the fabulous Cooking Light: The Essential Dinner Tonight Cookbook (2009) for Christmas and she scribed inside the cover, “May this make your Tasty Tuesdays even tastier!”  Isn’t that the sweetest thing, ever? Ahh, I love my mom.  This book does not disappoint, it has great pictures (because that’s how I…

tasty tuesday: broccoli and cheese pasta bowl

You know those nights when you’re just getting home, everyone’s hungry and you don’t know what to prepare?  This is a great meal that can be thrown together in 20 minutes and you can even get your kids to eat it.  This is great for a vegetarian family, but if you are carnivores like us,…

tasty tuesdays: tuscan chickpea stew

San Diego is such a funny place.  You think it’s all Shamu and sunshine, but it doesn’t really quite live up to that shiny expectation that we set on it.  Under the assumed warm exterior, it gets downright chilly when the season calls.  The cool coastal air starts to settle in only giving glimpses of…

Fancy sounding, but easy fish dinner

Sunset Best Recipes 2010

I wrote a post rather heavy yesterday (see Mommy on the Brink), so I’m going to go with something light and delicious today.  It’s also been quite a while since I posted a recipe (almost a month!).  This dinner was quick, easy and superb!  Just the way I like it.  And this dinner is most…

favorite easy chicken pasta dinner

vintage mom in kitchen-dad coming home

This is by far one of my most favorite easy meals.  This is in regular rotation and the kids, for the most part love it (okay, they pick out the asparagus, but I make them eat a few bites).  This recipe is from the book, Joie Warner’s No-Cook Pasta Sauces.  Besides living with my GBF…