Roasted Shrimp

Roasted Shrimp

Roasting shrimp is super easy. This is great served with couscous, rice, or (if you want to get a little more complicated) risotto. Recipe below.

Fish Tacos

These are super simple and take about a half hour after you’ve made them a few times. My philosophy on cooking for a family is this: cook what the adults like, but make things that the kids can eat their version of. Fish tacos are a perfect example of this type of meal. My daughter used to eat everything separately. I made her a very mild version of the spicy mayonnaise sauce and she was very happy to dip the fish and cabbage in it. Now she loves these tacos.

Turkey Tacos

The Best Everyday Taco

Delicious! 20 minutes, maybe? So good, and easy to keep turkey in the freezer for any time a meal is needed. These could be made of ground beef if you like. I make them out of ground turkey thigh meat. It has the right fat content and has the added bonus of being pretty inexpensive. 

Julia's Banana Bread

Julia’s Banana Bread

(with a little tinkering)

If you’ve ever been to Maui, then you know that banana bread is to Maui what pizza is to NY, kind of. Banana bread is sold everywhere and many say they have the best on the island. Julia’s is in a remote corner of the island, but getting there is half the fun. I can’t say that I had the good luck of eating

Easy Broccoli

Easy Broccoli

Serves 4

There are so many ways to cook green vegetables-braise, sauté, blanch, steam... I’ve tried them all. Steaming is supposed to be the method that retains the most nutrients-no dunking in boiling water. This apparently robs fresh green vegetables of their nutrition (or some of it). But I find that 

Perfect Cubed Tofu

Cubed Tofu

This recipe is so simple and versatile, my daughter loves it plain and I love it on salads. Put it in a tortilla with veggies and salsa and call it a burrito. Or, serve it on rice with broccoli. The possibilities are endless…

Sauteed Kale

Sauteed Kale

I’ve always had a hit or miss relationship with kale. I could never cook kale as good as my mother, and sometimes, it just wouldn’t cook no matter what I did, and I was left with tasteless green stuff. Recently I’ve realized that it