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…

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…

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…

Shrimp Quesadillas

I needed something to throw together for lunch and I was kinda sick of sandwiches.  After reading a bunch of different blogs today, I had a craving for Shrimp Quesadillas.  My experiment was a tasty one. Shrimp Quesadillas 1/2 pound of shrimp, peeled deveined and tails removed 1 T taco sauce 1 clove…

30 Minute Tortellini & Shrimp

…I would like to say welcome back!  To those of you who have been following this, I took a little blog break.  A family vacation (and recovery from said vaca) and a sudden onslaught of apples from a friend have kept me busy, in and out of the kitchen.  I have been…

California Chopped Salad

O.K. So I have been a bit busy these last few days and while I have been cooking, I have not had the time to tell you about it.  We replaced all the storm windows in our screen porch, finished painting the outside of our house, finished up swimming lessons…we have had…