This comes from my Madhur Jaffrey Indian cookbook, which is one of my favorites, and I’m not sure why I haven’t gotten around to posting it before. It’s easy, if time consuming, and really excellent. I’ve yet to try one of Madhur’s recipes that I don’t love, but this is a particular favorite of ours. It can also be done with beef, but I do think it would lose something without the lamb. I served it with roasted curry cauliflower and broccoli and a flatbread.
We were really happy with this tasty, easy baked chicken dish, which came from a recipe database called RecipeSource. I did halve the sugar in the recipe from 1/2 cup to a 1/4 cup, so the rub was more watery than intended. But lost no flavor and it stayed on the chicken without trouble. The sweet rub on the chicken paired really well with some spicy garlic roasted green beans as a side. It also made a lot – I used four split chicken breasts, but you could really use any chicken you liked – a whole cut up chicken would be great for leftovers.
Given our glut of fresh tomatoes (and, unfortunately, an early peak now that bot of our ‘mater plants have croaked!), this was an appealing recipe idea from Skinnytaste. The burger recipe is what really interested me, because I had not seen a turkey burger made with zucchini before! It actually made an excellent filler. I left out the breadcrumbs and everything held together well regardless. Very tasty! We would make this again. We served it over a bed of lettuce with more tomatoes.
In my epic quest to use up all the basil we’re growing, I made a cream sauce and froze it a few weeks ago…so most of the recipe is that. But it was excellent over baked salmon filets. I served this some sauteed squash from our CSA, and a cucumber and white bean salad. The sauce was fantastic…glad we have more in the freezer. That said, if you make this, freeze in SMALL portions – a little goes a very long way. This would do well with chicken or roasted veggies as well.
What can I say…this one may have become one of our absolute favorites! Hugely flavorful for not a lot of effort. In my low-carb recipe idea search, I saw a pita-less gyro, and that gave me the idea to do a lamb burger over a Greek salad. We topped the burger with some not-quite-tzatziki and it was delicious. I used a Bon Appetit recipe for this, and made no changes. Great as-is. I kept the salad on the lower-cal side by cutting the oil substantially when I made the dressing. We definitely didn’t miss it.
This was a great, low carb idea I got from Skinnytaste. I have home-mixed taco seasoning, and that was perfect to spice up the a ground turkey a bit. We really loved this, and since neither of us is a huge fan of taco shells, we actually preferred the lettuce! Pretty quick and easy for a weeknight meal, too. Top with any of your favorites – a little reduced fat cheese and sour cream helped temper the heat a bit. I serve this with Mexican-style black beans.
We are trying our hand at low-carb, and so far so good. As far as main dishes go for us, it’s not too bad – we don’t eat much pasta. But rice, starchy veg, and my beloved pretzels and beer…well, there’s no substitute for the latter, but it’s surprisingly easy to do without the former. This is a stuffed pepper that we concocted using vegetables instead of rice mixed in with the turkey and our homemade roasted red pepper tomato sauce. It was quite good, and the leftovers make for easy lunches.
We don’t do pasta very often, but I really, really love spaghetti and meatballs. I made these guys with my usual Classic Tomato Sauce and it came out well. I cooked 3-5 meatballs in the sauce and baked the rest, which worked out well for us since I didn’t bust out the huge stock pot this time. I have a long-standing meatball recipe I have used (along with my Uncle’s stock pot!), but modified it a bit this time using an Ina Garten recipe and was pleased. Great, tender meatballs…makes about 12-15 of them, unless you like big ones.
Rosie the Corgi was a big fan of making sure that she gave Shawn a grilling cookbook for Father’s Day. She loves grilling, since it means occasional morsels for her. 😉 Since Rosie lacks in opposable thumbs, I picked out “Weber’s Real Grilling” on her behalf, and this was the first recipe we tried. All I can say is wow! Total winner. The only change we made from the as-printed version is that we cut back on the peppers a bit
We got a big, lovely bunch of kale in our CSA this week that needed a job. I was contemplating something to do with it besides a soup, and found this casserole on Serious Eats (originally Martha Stewart, I think). It’s nice for a summer casserole – lighter and very bright. It made a ton of course, which was my intent…lots of lunches! This was pretty easy to make a bit healthier with whole wheat pasta, part-skim cheeses, and Smart Balance instead of butter.
Om nom nom! 