I was looking for a quick and easy recipe to throw together for dinner and remembered my old standby, cold pasta salad. Truthfully, cold pasta salad would never have occurred to me had I not spent a year in Italy living with two Italian-American cousins. They knew things about pasta that I had never conceived, […]
Category: Recipes
Effortless Eating’s 1-year anniversary
Hooray! It’s the 1-year anniversary of this blog! I didn’t even make it to the one-year mark breastfeeding my first child, so this is pretty cool. Thanks for sticking with me over the year and leaving comments, which make it all worthwhile. I hope this blog is as enjoyable for you to read as it […]
Mexican Rice
Cooking for Kids posted a quick and easy Mexican Rice recipe based on the Glorious One-Pot Meal cooking technique. Food writer Stephanie Gallagher took the basic concept of GOPM — using a cast iron Dutch oven inside an oven at 450F — and gave it a few tweaks such as stirring the ingredients and removing […]
Whole Fish on the Grill
I saw this whole red snapper in the display at Whole Foods recently and was overcome with nostalgia for times in my childhood when my mother would cook a whole fish for dinner and it was delicious. I had this idea that I would bring it home, stuff it with a variety of herbs from […]
Cool summer desserts: homemade granita and sherbet
I came across this recipe for Honeydew Granita in the paper the other day and couldn’t stop thinking about it. When we were invited over for brunch recently I thought it would be the perfect refresher to bring along on a hot summer day. Only, I didn’t have a honeydew melon on hand. So I […]
