Last updated on February 23rd, 2020 Creamy roasted garlic tomato basil chicken with spinach. This easy Whole 30 chicken recipe uses roasted garlic cashew cream mixed with a jar of flavorful tomato basil sauce for a quick weeknight dinner! Serve it over cauliflower rice with fresh basil. This post is sponsored by Lucini Italia, using their…
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Parmesan Roasted Cauliflower and Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner
Last updated on March 20th, 2019 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…
Zucchini Gouda Turkey Meatballs with Cheesy Baked Polenta
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Garlic White Wine Skillet Chicken with Olives & Artichokes
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Chicken Pot Pie with Chestnut Biscuits
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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,…
Butternut Squash & Turkey Lasagna with Chestnut Pasta
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Caprese fettuccine with Italian chicken sausage
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Sun-dried tomato, basil, and mozzarella turkey meatballs
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Smoked sausage sweet potato skillet pasta
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Coca Cola pulled chicken sliders
Last updated on April 8th, 2019 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…
Quick chicken & Spanish chorizo weeknight paella
Last updated on June 29th, 2020 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…
Texas-style chili turned healthy
Last updated on April 10th, 2019 Sometimes in the midst of chaos, you need a big bowl of comfort, a glass of orange juice, and good friends to sit around the dining table with. For Lucas, comfort tastes like Texas. And since, until last week, we didn’t own a grill and sopapillas aren’t on my…
Healthy turkey and veggie chili
Last updated on January 22nd, 2021 With my head buried in books for the past few weeks I’ve had very little time to emerge to make dinner. On days when I decide crackers aren’t substantial enough for a full meal, I usually heat up Trader Joe’s tomato soup, toss together some semblance of a salad,…
Spinach artichoke lasagna cups
Last updated on March 30th, 2014 Bite-sized party food makes me giddy. Itty-bitty cute packages of flavor that cause you to say “awww…adorbs” before digging in. The best part of fork-free party bites is that you can sample a bunch of different items from the spread without committing to giant portions…or …you can devour 20 of your…
Honey soy sauce chicken drumsticks
Getting a cold in July is the pits! It’s sunny & warm, and all you want to do is go play outside, but you’re stuck on the couch with a box of tissues. That’s how I’ve spent the past four days. The weather was perfect for grilling this weekend, but even the thought of spending…
Lemon ginger chicken
Last updated on July 2nd, 2012 It’s a miracle that I managed to eat dinner every night last week. Our trip to Boston impeded Sunday meal planning and grocery shopping. And the Thursday deadline for draft two of my paper meant thinking about dinner was last on my to-do list. So, by Tuesday, our usually…
Chicken pot pie: dinner & dessert
Last updated on November 7th, 2014 I play with my food. One of my favorite things to do with food is make it look like something it’s not. For Halloween, I spent hours turning marinated mozzarella and olives into creepy eyeballs and meringue cookies into scary ghosts. Today, I present two takes on the classic…
Chicken and artichoke pesto quesadillas
Last updated on June 8th, 2014 Grad school productivity is inversely related to cooking and blogging; as I become more immersed in reading and writing theories on math education, my kitchen becomes less used and my blogging less frequent. I start rummaging through my freezer to find something to eat because going to the store…
Calzones with hot Italian chicken sausage, asparagus, and spinach
Last updated on June 23rd, 2014 Like I said, I make pizza often. Since a dessert pizza was already in the works, I decided to mix it up a bit for dinner and flip pizza over on itself to make calzones. Let’s be honest, calzone is just a fancy word for “hot pocket.” And since…
Healthy chicken tortilla soup for cilantro-haters
Last updated on June 23rd, 2014 As a serious cilantrophobe, I’ve never been a fan of tortilla soup. Actually, to be fair, I’d only ever tried it once when my friends took me to “tortilla soup Tuesdays” at Houston’s Restaurant, but when the bowl came served with a heaping glob of that detestable herb, I’d…
Chicken chronicles part III: chicken and vegetable burritos (& a spice rack fiasco)
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 Prior to meeting Lucas, my experience with cooking flavorful Mexican food was limited to Lawry’s Taco Seasoning packets. When I first made tacos for Lucas, he was appalled at my affinity for the mysterious mix, but agreed to let me do my thing when I insisted it was the way…
Juicy whole roasted chicken with oranges and onions
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 It’s hard to get motivated to cook elaborate meals for one when your boyfriend is out of town. Lucas had planned to be in Taiwan this week when I made my ambitious plan to roast a whole chicken to use in all my dishes throughout the week. His work…
Lucas’s skillet-fried white cheddar turkey burger
Last updated on July 1st, 2012 Let me start by saying that Lucas and I faced an obstacle in food blogging today: it is not easy to make a burger look appealing in photographs. I’ll continue by telling you that this turkey burger recipe (courtesy of Lucas) is the juiciest, most flavorful turkey burger I’ve…
Crispy oven-baked buffalo wings
Last updated on January 30th, 2014 One fact you need to know about me is that I will rarely cook a recipe for which I don’t have a picture. How am I supposed to make it when I don’t even know what I’m striving for?! I’m a visual learner (and cook), and Jane Hornby’s What…
