I’ve been looking for easy but delicious weeknight dinners, and I have another to report. This Rachel Ray Chicken stir fry. 3 3/4 cups water 2 oranges, zested 2 cups jasmine rice, rinsed 2 tablespoons canola or safflower oil, 2 …

My sorella told me I should make pea pesto. I was having Rebecca over to help me make the rose cake, so I wooed her with pea pesto. The pesto recipe looked good, but I only had sweet peas, and …

One of this month’s Cucina Fresca recipes is Veggie Burgers. We used beans as the base for the burgers, and we looked up a few recipe options online before making a decision on what to use ourselves. We did try …

For those of you who didn’t know, Garlic, My Soul is going to be expanding to a bi-coastal project! And, of course, in the style of 2011 being a year of DOING THINGS we’re taking a cross-country road trip to …

Our third recipe for Cucina Fresca: February was Roasted Herb Chicken. We choose to do a roast chicken because we wanted to make a roast chicken as per our goals (see number 15) and we also wanted to tackle another …

For February’s Cucina Fresca, we decided to venture into the world of chili. You may recall when we made the Pioneer Woman’s chili. That chili was delicious, but it was too spicy for even Corelyn. We also felt it was …

This is the beginning of some very delicious artichoke dip. Meanwhile, make some bacon for your potato skins. After the twice baked potato fiasco of 2010, we were wary of potato skins, but it ended OK. Also, cut up 18 …

We trust the PW. Always. And so, we made her baked lemon pasta, as a prep to our cooking all the recipes in her lovely cookbook. But, of course, we decided to add mushrooms. Mushrooms to put in some wine. …

This was a helicopter next door that was looking for someone near us.

We needed something green, full of basil, and delicious. Alas, we threw some stuff into the mini Cuisinart: basil, pine nuts, more basil, oil, more oil, some more pine nuts, and spun it around for a good while. These are …