Light and flaky flounder marinated in Italian dressing, a perfectly easy and light mid-week meal! – – This recipe is great, easy, and delicious. Have I got you hooked? (Do you appreciate my puns?) It really only involves two ingredients, plus seasoning, if you even decide to bother. A model “simple” recipe! I love simple dishes like these to help round out the “I’m so busy I’m going 20 different directions” days, or for a more relaxing day when I want to try out a more complex side dish. In this case, I was going for tried and true and easy:…
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Continue ReadingA vegetarian take on enchiladas with corn, red peppers, zucchinis, and onions mixed with a cheesy bean filling, wrapped in warm tortillas and smothered with store-bought enchilada sauce. – – This recipe is pretty much a straight adaptation of my original enchiladas (recipe) post, but subbing the beef for sauteed vegetables. If I’m being honest, I do like the beef a bit better. But this is still mighty delicious, and if I’m going to try eating more vegetables, I will sit down to eat this quite happily. I’m trying to incorporate a “Vegetarian Monday” into my schedule, so trying to come up with…
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Silken tofu baked to perfection with a delicious thick honey sesame sauce, perfect over white or brown rice or vegetable fried rice (tipsychocochip recipe)! – – I’m all about that silken tofu. All the food bloggers that I read swear by cooking with firm or extra firm or super-duuper-extra-extraordinarily-firm. Sure, it makes life easy in the kitchen. But I just don’t like to eat it. Silken tofu I can eat all day. You know all those things that they say “melt in your mouth”? Well, silken tofu literally melts in your mouth. Silken tofu is not the easiest ingredient to work with. If…
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A simple salad of chopped avocados, diced tomatoes, and mozzarella pearls, tossed with some seasoning and a balsamic glaze. — I had made this over two years ago I think, and recently rediscovered how much I love this salad! It’s a perfect classy salad when you want to change up the game, or are feeling particularly uninspired by lettuce. It’s basically a bite-sized caprese salad, but additionally tossed with some avocado. I also really love the little mozzarella pearls. They’re about marble-sized, and other than being cute and cutting out a thing that you have to chop, they’re not really…
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Rice noodles tossed with a rainbow of veggies and egg, pulled together by a complex sticky sauce and topped with fresh herbs and chopped peanuts. – – It’s been a full weekend! Luckily I have off today to recover, and generally be a lump! Sometimes you need one of those laze-about days, and I think I need one! To be fair I still have a phone call and a doubleheader volleyball match, but those aren’t until the evening so we’re gonna ignore those for now. We’ll go day by day since there was so much going on! Friday I just…
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A rainbow of sauteed veggies tossed with ginger rice and a soy sauce based sauce for a healthy but hearty fried rice!
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Tri-colored quinoa mixed with chopped broccoli in a cheesy cheddar casserole, perfect as a weeknight side dish! – – Broccoli cheddar quinoa is one of my go-to side dishes! I typically have all ingredients on hand on a given day, so when I have nothing else planned as a side dish, it’s perfect and easy to whip up! Broccoli is a pretty good staple in my home, since it’s one off my favorite vegetables–don’t get me wrong, I’ll still take twix cookies (recipe) over vegetables any day. But when coupled with the quinoa, it’s actually a pretty decently healthy side-dish! Plus, cheese…
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So I’ve seen recipes for “cauliflower” substitute everything recently on pinterest (click for my tipsychocochip board on pinterest!), and to be honest I’ve been fairly skeptical. But I have been trying to eat healthier lately and I wanted a grilled cheese sandwich, so I figured if I was going to stoop, maybe I’d try the cauliflower bread. This is another recipe where this 1.5 c. food processor comes in handy! Just enough to make one or two servings without unnecessary cleanup! It was surprisingly tasty actually. More akin to a bread-like texture than I thought, and definitely not bad smothered with cheese. This…
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So my tastes have really changed in the past three years since I graduated college. (Probably even in college, but I ate mostly quesadillas, bacon bits, and Mac and cheese, so it’s not like I’d have known.) I like mushrooms now. Not really by themselves, but in risotto or in a steak sauce or in SMOG pie, but then again I was sauteeing up some mushrooms the other day and actually enjoyed picking out mushrooms and eating them. So apparently I’m a liar too. But coconut was one of those things I would never touch previously. The texture was funny…
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I know it’s only just barely fall and I feel like I’m pulling out all the fall-themed recipes already! I’m not actually doing it on purpose, I’m just enjoying the comfort food aspect of my slow cooker! And I thought these microwave cinnamon apples would pair amazingly with the crockpot chicken and stuffing recipe I posted last week (it’s a versatile recipe!), and when I didn’t have apples I was sad. So they stayed on my mind, and I made up for it by serving them with the everyday thanksgiving sandwich. A good sweet side dish, although I didn’t think to…
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Happy Fourth of July! I know you all will probably be spammed by social media with red, white, and blue galore! So here’s some green to mix it up! =D I wanted to share this because it’s an easy recipe to make for company! If you prep the ingredients before cooking and then just add to a pot to simmer away, it works quite nicely. Let me know if you try this method! I am in Chicago for a family vacation until Wednesday, so I wanted to make sure I shared a recipe at least and didn’t leave you all hanging.…
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Blue apron is the second order-by-meal service that I’ve used, the first being hello fresh. Feel free to revisit the recipe for dijon walnut salmon and couscous for my list of pros/cons on hello fresh. At some point I will compile a nice list about all the different services, but I’m keeping with the past format for now. Pros As compared to hello fresh, I like the recipes more. They seem a little more exotic, with an occasional ingredient that I wouldn’t have probably picked up otherwise. I relish the opportunity to be nudged out of my comfort zone without being overwhelmed by new…
