Recipe: Kale and Tortellini Soup

I’ve been feeling a bit sickish recently…I don’t have a cold, but I’m certainly just not feeling all that great. So I figured I would make my favorite quick and easy soup to eat and blog it to share with you all. This soup comes together and is ready to eat within an hour. Unlike most…

Recipe: Egg-Free Strawberry Orange Gelato

For the holidays, my godparents gave me an ice cream maker attachment for my KitchenAid mixer. I’ve been wanting to make homemade ice cream, sorbet, and gelato for ages! Now that I had a mixer, I could start looking up recipes…Honestly, a lot of them intimidate me because they have eggs and egg yolks and…

Recipe: Fish Baked in Foil with Tomatoes and Couscous.

My favorite way to eat fish is baked in a foil pouch. It keeps the fish tender and moist, plus it makes a pretty awesome sauce to go over a starch. I like couscous for this dish since it soaks up the flavor of the sauce. There’s a few components to the dish and several steps,…

Recipe: Swirl Cheesecake with Graham Cracker Walnut Crust

If you like cheesecake that isn’t too sweet or drowning in topping, this recipe is the one that you’re looking for. Compared to others, the cheesecake layer is thin and fluffy. I also like the use walnuts with my graham cracker crust because it gives it texture and contrast to the creamy cheesecake. Since jam…

Recipe: Fried Zucchini Cakes

I was given the gift of an abundant amount of zucchini (courgettes). So instead of making endless stir-fry with it, I decided to make some pan fried cakes using the shredded squash. They’re almost like latkes, but with chunks of garlic and onions in it. Gather your ingredients, which isn’t much. Two medium sized squashes,…

Recipe: Fresh Mango Salsa

Growing up in Hawaii, my family had a huge mango tree in the backyard. That meant summers of endless mangos and mango bread until the next summer made with fruit that had been over-ripe and frozen. I’m spoiled when it comes to mangos. No mango will ever be as sweet or as delicious as the ones I…

Recipe: Creamy Avocado Cilantro Dressing

It’s time for another salad dressing recipe! What I love about this recipe is that not only can you use it for salads, but it also can be put on burritos or tacos, and it can be used as a dip for veggie sticks or chips! Everything comes together really quickly with the help of…

Recipe: Lemony Zucchini Fettuccine

My coworker Larry, who has the greenest thumb and can grow so many fruits and vegetables, mentioned to me that since zucchini (also called courgette) are coming in now, I should do a recipe on my blog with them. This dish is my favorite way to eat zucchini and I’ve been making it for years….