This Spicy Cucumber Salad Recipe is really amazing. It has everything going for it including crunchy, sweet, acidic, nutty, and spicy flavors. Plus it's beautiful and so easy to make- a perfect side dish ready in just 20 minutes. A mere 7 ingredients and a couple simple techniques go a long way towards making the...
Leftover Pasta Frittata Recipe
This Zucchini, Bean & Pasta Frittata Recipe is one of my favorite ways to use up leftover pasta. It's nutritious, hearty, and filling, making it a great recipe for meal prepping a week's worth of breakfasts on-the-go. Plus it's extremely customizable. You can substitute whatever vegetables, beans, and cooked pasta you have in your kitchen....
Fresh Tomato Spaghetti Sauce Recipe
This easy, 6-ingredient Fresh Tomato Spaghetti Sauce Recipe will transport you straight to Italy, or at the very least, New Jersey, where tomato season is a whole vibe. The Garden State really does grow some of the best fresh produce in the country, and juicy tomatoes play a huge role in our summer cooking. This...
Easy Blackberry Mojito Recipe
This easy, delicious blackberry mojito recipe has everything a summer cocktail should have. It's cold and refreshing and loaded with fresh ingredients, plus it's absolutely stunning, like most blackberry cocktails are. The best time of year to make any mojito is summertime, when the warm weather makes you crave ice cold fruity cocktails. In fact,...
Blackberry Simple Syrup Recipe
This blackberry simple syrup is so beautiful, so delicious, and so easy to make. It can take virtually any cocktail to a whole new level.
How to Make Tomato Sauce Less Acidic (3 ways)
We've all been there. You're making tomato sauce with delicious, fresh ingredients, things like tomatoes, garlic, onions, and fresh basil. And it smells to die for! But there's one problem- you taste it and realize it still has an acidic taste... This is a common problem all home cooks run into at one point or...
Turkey Smash Burgers
This easy, flavor-packed Turkey Smash Burger Recipe has everything going for it- smashed crispy edges, quick cook time, avocado, and a homemade kimchi mayo that packs a spicy umami punch. It's the perfect recipe for using a stovetop griddle. Kimchi goes so well with turkey and chicken because it adds a burst of umami that...
Best Italian Tomato Salad (Recipe)
Like many other Italian Recipes, a simple tomato salad relies on delicious, quality ingredients and techniques to achieve the most flavor.
The Best Penne Pomodoro Recipe
The secret to making the best Penne al Pomodoro recipe lies in a few high quality ingredients and techniques.
Pastina with Cream and Sugar
Pastina, a word Italians use to describe any tine pasta shape, typically refers more specifically to star-shaped pasta here in the U.S. There are a few main styles of preparing pastina, which I talk about in my other 2 pastina recipes on this site, Pastina with Egg and Cheese, and Pastina Soup. The third way...