Recipes

  So many different salads! So many salad dressings! Here are some salad dressing recipes, some with a different twist, that will bring some variety to those leafy greens and veggies. My Vinaigrette: Lemon-Garlic Vinaigrette   Avocado Dressing: 1 Cup mashed Haas avocado 1 Cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp. freshly squeezed lemon juice 1 Large clove of […]

  This is a quick, easy and delicious dish to prepare when you’re on the go or forgot to take something out of the freezer for dinner. You can follow the recipe as is or add additional clam flavor by using whole canned clams, minced clams or an additional white clam sauce. You can certainly

  This is one of my favorite recipes for chicken salad. It’s great to serve on a plate of lettuce, as a sandwich on your choice of bread or as and appetizer served in phyllo dough cups or crostinis.  I use the breast meat of a rotisserie chicken, not only because it’s easy, but they

  Growing up near McKay Bay in Palmetto Beach, a neighborhood of Tampa, Florida, we were afforded the pleasure, as kids, to go crabbing for blue crabs off the seawall. Tampa is famous for their Jaibas Enchilados. Don’t confuse enchilados for the Mexican enchiladas. Enchilado means seasoned with a hot spice. But you will hear

  Don’t let the color fool you. This is a delicious and different rice that has a little bit of a kick to it and is a recipe more popular in Mexico. The closest I have come across to this in the United States is cilantro rice. The Mexicans will drizzle Mexican crema over the

  If you’re a banana-nut bread lover, you need look no further for the best recipe ever for this delicious treat. My wife’s recipe delivers a banana-nut bread that is super moist, full of plump pecan pieces and bursting with the sweetness of bananas. MISE EN PLACE INGREDIENTS: 4 TO 6 Very ripe bananas. They

My aunt was married to a Sicilian-American and it was from her that I learned most of my Italian food recipes. She, in turn, learned from her mother-in-law, Inez Valenti, otherwise known to all of us as Nana. She wasn’t my grandmother but I always felt like she was and I never called her by

Looking for a satisfying sweet treat but don’t want the calories that come with it? Try this dessert that has only 268 calories per serving and is very satisfying. It’s another recipe I developed for my daughter’s fitness group. MISE EN PLACE INGREDIENTS: For the Cake: 1 Box moist chocolate pudding-in-the cake mix 1 Can

  This was one of my favorite dishes when I visited Delhi, India. When I was back in the states, I searched and tried different recipes but the one I found that most resembled what I had in India was from Madhur Jaffrey, a writer and cookbook author from Delhi. This is her recipe and

  I had never had Mexican food until I was 21 years old and was stationed in San Antonio as a newly inducted airman in the United States Air Force. It was there that I met my wife, who is Mexican-American, and learned the scrumptious cuisine called Tex-Mex from my mother-in-law. Tex-Mex is a fusion