Light & Tangy Tuna Wraps

After a quick break to celebrate the holidays, I am thrilled to say that I am back and full to the brim with incredible recipes to share with all of you!  I can’t promise that they will all be healthy (I know we all want to follow those brand spankin’ new resolutions…)…

How To: Fish Baked In Parchment

Food steamed in parchment paper is one of my favorite ways to cook.  Why?  Well, besides the fact that it is an especially healthy method, there is no clean-up!! The heat, steam, and flavor are trapped inside, resulting in a moist, healthy, and surprisingly quick meal.  The fish melts in your mouth and…

Salmon Noodle Bowl

Have I ever mentioned to you how much I love fish? I really do. I have to physically restrain myself from posting obscene amounts of salmon and tilapia recipes here. Never mind that this is quite obviously a salmon dish or that a How To recipe involving tilapia and parchment paper is…

Sweet & Spicy Shrimp

I am pausing in the middle of my Back To School Series and my self proclaimed honey phase, to post this recipe.  We have ben devouring it at our house.  And I do mean devour, with no conversation and just the sounds of lips smacking and forks hitting the plates echoing off…

Parmesan Tilapia

Yeah, tilapia! You all know how much I love tilapia.  Next to salmon and shrimp, it is one of my most favorite kinds of fish or seafood.  It has a clean, mild flavor that is just…good.  The whole family does a collective cheer if it shows up on the menu.  In the…

Lemon & Garlic Shrimp Linguini

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know that I only post recipes that I make regularly; recipes that have made an appearance on my table several times and will continue to do so long after these words are archived.  I have actually been making this dish for years…

Creamy Penne W/Shrimp & New Holiday Traditions

Several years ago, when Evelyn was around three, she was sitting with me and watching Giada make this pasta on her Food Network show.  This was not unusual.  She is six now and still watches cooking shows with me; commenting on dishes like a seasoned chef.  But this particular time, she turned…

Open Faced Tuna Melt

Hi all! Just a quick post to clue you in to one of my most favorite comfort foods.  Gaze upon the Open Faced Tuna Melt. Now, for any of you reading this who happen to be my siblings, I realize you may think of this dish as unremarkable.  We did, after all,…

Summer Salmon

Greetings! I am in the middle of vacation but I definitely couldn’t wait to share this with you.  I promised you a new salmon recipe and here it is!  Granted, it is not the prettiest dish I ever made but what it lacks in looks it more than makes up for in…

Tilapia W/Citrus Sauce: A Favorite Meal

If you had asked me what my favorite food/meal was, oh say…ten or eleven years ago, I can guarantee you that meat would have been at the top of the list.  In particular, beef.  I learned at an early age that a good steak is hard to top and for the most…

Baja Fish Tacos

I confess.  If you had asked me, oh say, ten or twelve years ago, if I liked fish tacos, my answer would have been a very firm “No.”  The fact that I had never had a fish taco at that time would have been irrelevant.  I am from Minnesota you see, and we…

Sweet & Spicy Salmon

Do you ever get into those moods when you just want to do something different?  Not necessarily something crazy-although there is always a time for that too.  Nope.  Just a little break from the norm.  That was me today, staring at the salmon on my counter.  The fish, all fresh and pink…

Pan Fried Tilapia

Everywhere you look, there seem to be reminders that we need to eat more fish.  Its good for maintaining a healthy weight, good for heart health, blah blah blah.  While standing in the fresh meat section of the grocery store, does this make us choose fresh fish over a New York Strip?  Maybe. …

Shrimp Cobb Salad

Eat with your eyes first and gaze upon this salad. Doesn’t this look good?  I thought so too.  So when I glanced at the cover of Cooking Light Magazine and saw it, I immediately added it to my menu for the week.  Beautiful to look at and delightful to eat, the flavor…

Speedy Glazed Salmon

I didn’t really feel like making dinner tonight. I mean, I love to cook (it never hurts to state the obvious), but I was in the middle of some serious cleaning and organizing  and I didn’t want to lose the ‘zone’.  You know.  The ‘zone’.  Where you are so focused on you…