Vietnamese Barbecue Pork Salad

One of the easiest way to throw together a great tasting meal is to marinate the meat and grill it. The meat takes on flavor without you needing to do anything. You just mix in a baggie and let it sit in the fridge while you head off to work, run errands, sleep overnight. You […]

Vegan Cilantro Lime Ranch Dressing

Since The Kid has a dairy allergy and has from birth, she’s never had many of the things most of us take for granted. Ice cream, cheese, milk… ranch dressing. Now that she’s older, she sometimes asks me what such and such tastes like. It’s hard! Have you ever tried to explain the taste of […]

Grilled Pork Chops with Two Bean Pine Nut Salad

You’ve heard of three bean salad? Well I was one bean short of a three bean salad last night, so I made mine two bean salad but added in the fun of pine nuts. I know, when am I ever not a bean short of a full salad. LOL. 😉 I’m on a pine nut […]

Beet Hummus

I’m all about colors in my food. The more colors, the better. It just keeps things fun along with tasting great. A few weeks ago, I found beet hummus on a trip to Trader Joe’s and I loved the flavor. Not only that, the color was a gorgeous deep red color that turned hot pink […]

Flat Iron Steaks with Whole Grain Arugula Salad

Every now and then you have one of those nights when you just need dinner to come together fast. Like in under 20 minutes fast if at all possible. The other night was one of them. OK, just about every night is one of them. I was able to whip up dinner in no time […]