You'll love this quick asparagus puff pastry appetizer or side dish. With a creamy cracked pepper and cottage cheese filling, pickled red onions and olives, it's delicious. I love that I can make a flaky puff pastry tart in minutes, using store-bought dough. Then fill it with creamy cottage ...
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Roast Parsnips With Sage Butter
Roast Parsnips with Sage Butter are a sophisticated, warm side dish that will diversify your meal. The recipe is easy to make, flavorful and comforting. Roast Parsnips with Sage Butter bring a rich flavor to your table, while requiring minimal work to prepare. They serve as the ...
Ravioli Bake with Fresh Tomatoes and Spinach
Ravioli Bake with Fresh Tomatoes and Spinach - a one dish meal packed with greens, cheese, pasta and flavorful tomatoes. An easy weeknight dinner everyone will love. • • • Baked pastas are one of my favorite, crowd-pleasing, go-to dinners. I can use homemade or jarred sauces, add veggies or not, ...
Mini Tomato Tart Recipe With Puff Pastry
This easy, Mini Tomato Tart recipe brings out the flavor of fresh tomatoes by roasting them on top of puff pastry with Gruyere cheese. Two-bite snacks perfect to go alongside salad, soup, or serve on a party table. • • • I love roasted tomatoes, even better than fresh! I love the intense ...
Grilled Zucchini Baba Ganoush
The smokey, grilled zucchini flavor comes through in this variation on a classic baba ganoush recipe. Great for a party dip or weekday lunch. • • • I love my friends in the magazine world. I shared this recipe on my Instagram and wanted to share it with you here. It's straight from Every Day with ...
Easy To Make Cherry Tomato Risotto
Cherry Tomato Risotto is an extra creamy rice dish loaded with fresh tomatoes. An ideal weeknight dinner. • • • My Italian inspired cherry tomato risotto is the perfect dinner for using up your bumper crop of little tomatoes. Don't have a garden? Well it's a fast and easy meal to make on a ...
Italian Tomato and Eggplant Skillet Pasta
Italian Tomato and Eggplant Skillet Pasta packs in fresh tomatoes, eggplant and even green beans to make a veggie-packed dinner. Fresh tomatoes, eggplant and even green beans make this veggie-packed pasta delicious, in under an hour I might add. I blended half of the vegetables to make a quick ...
Easy Caprese Focaccia
Summer is the perfect time to make Easy Caprese Focaccia. Tomatoes are abundant and delicious this time of year, so eat your heart out! • • • Fresh mozzarella, juicy, tangy tomatoes and fresh basil are the things summer dreams are made of. This simple take on caprese salad is perfect as a summer ...
The Best Chili Toppers | Tara Teaspoon
The best chili toppers make each bite of tomatoey goodness even better. You can make your own gourmet toppings for a chili party your crowd will never forget. • • • Start with the chili, top with amazing, flavorful things, and dig in! Everyone can make the meal their own by mixing different ...
The Real Deal Creamy Hummus • Tara Teaspoon
A secret ingredient let's you make the real deal hummus from dried or canned chickpeas. You'll never go back to store-bought, I promise! • • • I'm not kidding, this hummus changes lives. I have converted numerous people to the stuff, and they've sworn off store-bought hummus for good! The best ...
Shortcut Potato Herb Flatbread
Shortcut Potato Herb Flatbread is my take on a tasty NYC bakery classic. Mine is easy, delicious and great as a finger food, or a crispy bite with some homemade soup. Years ago I was introduced to potato pizza here in NYC. I was no stranger to potatoes and bread. I used to (I mean I ...
Mozzarella Sticks Turkey Snack Hack
This mozzarella sticks turkey snack hack has all the kids gobbling up tasty veggies and cheese. A cute way to celebrate the season! • • • Turkey time for all! I love a fun way to eat afternoon snacks and this one is all about the holiday. Kids will love to see this as their after school snack or ...
Roasted Broccoli Melt
Roasted Broccoli Melt is a totally stuffed, incredibly delicious, favorite hot sandwich for dinner. All I can say is YUM! A veggie sandwich? You question it, then you taste it, and your mind is blown. This roasted broccoli and cheese stuffed sammy makes dinner dreams come true. It's truly ...
Herbed Vegetable Pasta with Artichokes
Herbed vegetable pasta with artichokes is bursting with fresh veggies and zesty herbs. It's a go-to dinner for Meatless Mondays, or What-To-Eat Wednesdays! • • • My spring pasta dinner is as easy as boiling some water, adding veggies, a quick vinaigrette and poof. Olives, fresh tomatoes and red ...
Cheese Lover’s Snacks and Hacks
Cheese! Let's celebrate one of my favorite foods with these cheese lover's snacks and hacks. Nothing says delicious, quite like melted cheese! It's National Cheese Day! There are national days for every kind of food out there right now, but I'd like to think some stand out more than others. This ...
Alfredo Veggie Stromboli
Alfredo Veggie Stromboli made with grab-and-go grocery store staples is easy to put together, and even easier to eat for dinner - Delicious! Frozen pizza dough is a miracle. I love it so much. I typically keep it around for "leftover night" dinner. I roll it out, add some sauce, pesto or something ...
Golden Rosemary Garlic Mixed Nuts
Golden mixed nuts might be my new favorite party food. Gold makes everything a little more fantastic! I am loving all the edible gold food adornments, sprinkles, dusts and sprays that you can find now. Snacks for my Golden Globes viewing party just got...well...more gold!I wanted something ...
Spicy Grapefruit Guacamole
Spicy Grapefruit Guacamole brings the creaminess of avocado together with juicy citrus. The pop of flavor is the perfect twist to this classic dip. This is one avocado mash fit for a holiday party. Take a good look at this gorgeous dip though, because it won't last long. Juicy ...
Cheeseboard Tips for Entertaining
Use these expert Cheeseboard Tips to create an appetizer spread or cheese course your friends will love! Knowing some simple basics will help you serve the best variety. • • • I live on the upper west side of Manhattan. There are so many grocery stores and gourmet food markets right in my ...
Shriveled Ogre-Nose Pizza
Making little kids laugh has got to be one of the best things on the planet. I love when they lose it! Just toss their heads back laughing. It's so gratifying to know that they are laughing, not out of courtesy, but because they genuinely think it's funny. (Well ...
