This quick and easy weeknight Instant Pot beef ragu is made using a jar of marinara to develop rich flavors. Pot roast shreds into a comforting pasta sauce that tastes like it took hours to make! Serve over pasta, polenta, or even a baked potato. This post is sponsored by Lucini Italia, using their organic…
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Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower and Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
This chicken sheet pan dinner recipe is an easy way to get dinner on the table without much fuss. Lemon parmesan roasted cauliflower and crispy chicken breast tastes great on its own or served over buttered pasta! A few weeks ago, before the flames and smoke overtook California, I got to enjoy its beauty and…
Pancetta & Spring Green Grilled Cheese
Load fresh spring flavors into your grilled cheese with this pancetta & spring green grilled cheese. Layers of creamy dill havarti melted between herbed pea spread, crispy pancetta, and asparagus are all grilled between sourdough slices with plenty of butter to crisp up the outside! Get ready to celebrate National Grilled Cheese Day! A rain…
Multigrain Porridge, Two Ways: Savory Porridge & Sweet Porridge
Packed with six different grains, this multigrain porridge is so flavorful it requires very little seasoning. Make a big batch and serve it two ways, savory or sweet. It pairs with savory toppings like miso roasted salmon and bok choy for a comforting dinner or sweet toppings like warm spiced pears and hazelnuts for a…
Zucchini Gouda Turkey Meatballs with Cheesy Baked Polenta
Dinner tonight is a comforting bowl of gouda turkey meatballs made with shredded zucchini and served with marinara over creamy cheesy baked polenta. Summer meets fall. With the Bay Area hitting peak temperatures now, I’m not ready to let go of summer just yet. Fortunately the markets agree and are still stocked with all of…
Garlic White Wine Skillet Chicken with Olives & Artichokes
Extra juicy crispy-skinned garlic white wine skillet chicken with olives and artichokes. Served over a bed of pasta, this low-prep one-skillet chicken is simple enough for a weeknight, but fancy enough for a dinner party. I’m finally home after spending three nights in Boston at a middle-school style slumber party bachelorette party (except with wine, good…
Chicken Pot Pie with Chestnut Biscuits
This warm and roasty chicken pot pie topped with chestnut biscuits is a tribute to the cutest new baby bowl to join Two Red Bowls. Today was officially Cynthia’s due date, but baby bowl just couldn’t wait to eat his mama’s cooking and came a little early! Welcome to this big strange world, baby bowl, you are going to be one…
Butternut Squash & Turkey Lasagna with Chestnut Pasta
Lasagna from scratch was the first dish I made Lucas. He says it’s when he fell in love with me, but that was like our third date, so probably an exaggeration. On the other hand, it might also be the reason I have a husband, so I keep making it. This butternut squash & turkey…
Ginger Lemongrass Pork Lettuce Wraps
These ginger lemongrass pork lettuce wraps with nuoc cham sauce are my contribution to a lettuce wrap party for two with Todd of Honestlyyum . When we hatched plans to use a lettuce wrap collab to try our hand at stop-motion video (inspired by Betty’s tutorial), I could have sworn he said “Hey, can I come over and hold your baby?” (What’s…
Salmon Tacos with Green Onion & Asparagus Salsa
Raise your hand if you’ve ever had popcorn and ice cream for dinner because the thought of figuring out what to eat, going to the store, and coming back to cook it was enough to make you need a nap. Real talk. That’s basically mealtime with a new baby in a nutshell. (Also: when can I get that nap?). What if I told you someone would do the recipe planning and shopping part for you and you’d spend only 30 minutes in the kitchen before chowing down on these healthy salmon tacos?
You’d probably get that nap. That’s what.
Today I’m stoked to share about my collaboration with Sun Basket – what kept us nourished for the month after Zoella was born and brought these salmon tacos into my life. But first: let me paint the scene in our house.
Braised Short Rib Tagine with Figs & Almonds {for two}
Back when I first told you about #cheesebabygirl, I mentioned my new-found love affair with milk. When random people at the grocery store (yah, that’s a thing) ask me what unusual cravings I’ve had throughout my pregnancy, the only answer is milk. 7.5 months in and my love for milk is still just as fierce as day…
DIY Sushi at Home: A Video Collaboration
A food blogger friend I’ve never met in person recently observed that it seems Japanese is my favorite cuisine. My obsession is THAT transparent. Back in college, you would never have guessed that 10 years down the line, I’d have fallen so hard into a sushi love affair to the point of making DIY sushi…
Apple and Sausage Cornbread Stuffing with Sage {gluten-free}
Even though I’ve dreamed of city life since I was just a kid hoping to one day make it big in the movies, I’m a small-town country girl at heart. I like to think I’ve learned a bit of city street smarts over the years since I moved away from home, but it hasn’t always been…
Caprese fettuccine with Italian chicken sausage
This wasn’t supposed to be today. No – today was supposed to be a two-part dessert to use up our fruiting meyer lemon tree. Then sometimes things just happen. Things like your fall wardrobe barely fitting coupled with the realization that the last three recipes you’ve shared were desserts. And as you photograph ice cream sandwiches and cupcakes,…
Texas BBQ pulled pork quesadillas with vinegar slaw
The neighbors got suspicious when they peered through the fence and noticed Lucas and Mikey digging a 4-foot deep 3×5-foot pit in our backyard. By offering an invitation, I assured them that we were planning to roast a pig, not bury a body. For my last 20-something birthday, we invited all our friends over for a potluck pig…
Guilt-free shrimp and veggie fettuccine with cauliflower alfredo
Raise your hand if your favorite pasta dish as a child was creamy fettuccine alfredo. Did your house exclusively refer to fettucine alfredo as “Sarah’s favorite pasta” like mine? I’d order it every time I found it featured on a dinner menu and I’d throw in some shrimp for good measure. And when I grew up a…
Sun-dried tomato, basil, and mozzarella turkey meatballs
Have you spent a Friday night rolling a couple dozen miniature meatballs? While preparing 10 different healthy meals for the kids lunch box photo shoot for Lucas’s new start-up OmieLife, I did just that. I can now add “lunch box food stylist” to my resume. Marble-sized food stylist to be exact – I can confidently…
Spicy shrimp tacos with cabbage slaw
Recipe Rewind February 26, 2014: While eating our way through Nashville this weekend, we stopped by a little home goods shop in Franklin where I gawked over the cutest recipe card box ever. Then I came back down to earth and remembered that I don’t need (another) physical recipe card box – I have a food blog…
Smoked sausage sweet potato skillet pasta
This post is sponsored by Hillshire Farm** Up until now, there’s been exactly one way we’ve eaten sausage for dinner: on sandwich rolls with cooked peppers and onions. A little mayo, some mustard. This old link gets me thinking I really need to re-visit some of my early recipes – that picture makes the sausage…
Smoked salmon soba bowl
When you insist on experimenting with new recipes every single week, there are occasional meals when you and your husband awkwardly smile at one another from across the table and you know you’re both wishing you’d just ordered pizza instead. And still, he packs up the leftovers of whatever flop you just created and takes…
Pork tamales with chile colorado
We’re a very traditional family when it comes to holiday meals. For Thanksgiving, an enormous roasted bird sits surrounded by cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, sweet potato casserole, and green beans. Dessert is always homemade pecan pie and pumpkin pie. Like clockwork, sometime around mid-November you’d find childhood me begging my mom…
Coca Cola pulled chicken sliders
Since we’re back in the US now, I thought I’d share a recipe that screams “America!” And what’s more American than Coca Cola, amiright? Really, I made these sliders the week before we left, but I’ve been saving the recipe. To be honest, besides my fresh fruit breakfasts, I hardly missed our standard American fare while…
Pan-fried sole & mixed wild rice with roasted grapes (gluten-free)
I’ve been in a rut with my dissertation lately. When you’re in a rut, you reflect. Reflect on what’s keeping you from making the progress that you need. Then maybe you can figure out how to get over that and just write your little heart out. And I think I’ve discovered a few things about myself that…
Quick chicken & Spanish chorizo weeknight paella
I accidentally ate mac and cheese this weekend. It was not a moment of weakness where I thought, “oh, screw it, I’m eating this.” It was an honest-to-goodness mistake. We had some friends over for some BBQ this weekend and one of them brought over some bacon-filled deli mac n’ cheese. My response? “Ooo –…
