Category Archives: Food

Who doesn’t love Chinese food?! But take-out Chinese is just so unhealthy that sometimes when the craving hits, we decide to make our own. *Warning – this is a very involved process, not really an after work cooking project, I suggest making this on a weekend or day off. My husband and I also divideContinue reading “Homemade Chinese Food”

By now, everyone has a pizza stone and makes their own pizza at home, right? We love to use regular dough from the deli section of the grocery store or the herb dough from Trader Joe’s. The only hard part of homemade pizza is thinking of a delicious, creative topping! Cheese is so boring, pepperoniContinue reading “Pizza Toppings”

In honor of President’s Day (really, having nothing to do with any of our Presidents but all to do with having a day off) we made pulled pork sandwiches today. It’s such a long process, it’s best to do on a weekend or day off. The results are BBQ Heaven! Pulled Pork Sandwich adapted fromContinue reading “Pulled Pork Sandwich”

I love fish tacos so I thought I’d share how we make them at home. They’re so easy to make I don’t even follow a real recipe with measurements. For the tacos, tilapia works great – we like to use a white fish that isn’t too flaky since we don’t deep fry (the deep fryContinue reading “Fish Tacos”

We decided to make this delicious Buffalo Chicken Dip for the Superbowl tonight. This dip is so amazing, it tastes like you’re eating buffalo chicken wings. Whenever we serve it at a party, it’s the first thing to go. Whenever we bring it to a party, everyone asks for the recipe. We serve it hotContinue reading “Buffalo Chicken Dip”

In celebration of being stuck in our house for almost 36 hours with this snow, freezing rain, slush storm, we decided to bake a 1/2-batch of cookies. We used the traditional Nestle Toll House Cookies recipe on the back of the chocolate chip bag, also found here. Since chocolate isn’t my favorite, we split theContinue reading “Snow Day Cookies”

I love this meal – light, healthy, filling, and best of all delicious! You can substitute tuna if you’re not a fan of swordfish. We usually serve this with rice. Enjoy! Swordfish Provencal Adapted from EatingWell Magazine Serves 2 ½ red bell pepper, chopped 1 small red onion, sliced 1 clove garlic, minced 1C grapeContinue reading “Swordfish Provencal”

On those days when your body is screaming for a sweet dessert but your mind is trying to keep you focussed on you diet/weight maintenance/management routine…I have the perfect solution: No Pudge Brownies! I will tell you right now they are not an equal replacement to a regular full-fat and calorie brownie, but they sureContinue reading “No Pudge”

After a weekend away filled with skiing and apres-ski snacking, my husband and I got home Monday night needing a light, quick, and delicious meal. We decided on crab cakes with a little salad. I thought we should make homemade dressing, which always comes out so great I wonder why I don’t do it more!Continue reading “Crab Cakes and Salad”

I’ll start this post by telling/showing you the end of our adventure – a scrumptious meal of handmade shrimp and mascarpone cheese-filled ravioli with a truffle butter/white wine sauce. And here is the tale of our adventure: We began by rolling out pasta dough to the #4 thickness setting on our pasta maker. We usedContinue reading “Adventures in Ravioli-Making”