This easy taco salad with taco-seasoned ground beef, beans, cheddar cheese, and all the taco fixings makes a favorite easy dinner any night of the week. If there’s one Mexican meal I might love even more than my mother-in-law’s recipe for ground beef tacos that taste just like Taco Bell tacos, […]
This Caesar salad recipe with garlic croutons and a creamy homemade Caesar dressing with or without anchovies) makes an easy main meal or favorite side salad for a crowd. Here on the blog, I’m not shy about my love of the Caesar salad. I made sure to share my classic Caesar […]
This Italian sausage and peppers with onions recipe is easy to make, hearty, and full of sweet and savory flavor. There are so many Italian-American dishes I love, like my chicken piccata, baked rigatoni, and chicken Parmesan. This sausage and peppers is another classic Italian-American meal to add to the roster. Juicy, aromatic […]
This ratatouille recipe is a rainbow of fresh, peak-harvest veggies like tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and squash with fragrant herbs that are cooked down to a hearty, savory stew that makes for the coziest, most satisfying meal. I have several classic French recipes in my repertoire, like French onion soup, coq au vin, beef […]
Pasta alla Norma (eggplant pasta) is a classic, vegetarian Sicilian pasta dish with loads of flavor. I make it with my easy homemade marinara sauce with sweet-roasted eggplant for the best texture and flavor. Pasta alla Norma is one of those iconic Italian dishes that if I ever see on […]
Busy weeknights call for simple recipes that can be pulled together in a flash, and nothing’s simpler than a basic, homemade basil pesto pasta recipe that even a kid can make and clean up after too. Every summer, when my garden is overflowing with basil I get busy making jars of my favorite homemade […]
