During our exhausting search for a new place to call our temporary nest in the heart of Brooklyn, my cousin, sister and I were ready for a quick meal to cure our famished stomachs and minds lest we make a hasty decision and end up living in a ‘three’ bedroom, basement apartment (I put three [...]
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Simplicity is Usually Best
This dish should be the basis for building other pasta dishes because it is so simple to make and easy to eat. It can be morphed into these few suggestions: 1) Add grilled shrimp 2) Toss with spinach and mint pesto 3) Add grilled chicken and roasted tomatoes 4) Toss in a nice amount of [...]
Chickpeas are a hungry person’s best friend
I have a great love affair with chickpeas. It’s the potato of the bean world. You can prepare it a multiple of ways and it is a great source of protein. Fry it for a snack, add it to a soup or stew, make hummus, or do this: oven roast it and add it to [...]
A Quick Trip to the Oven
I shamefully admit that I had my fair share of the Hamburger Helper craze around the same time I was intrigued with the idea of Shake-n-Bake. These meals offered a quick way to get inexpensive meals to the table. Forget the fact that they never delivered a nice serving of vegetables (because apparently you can [...]
And They Say Carbs are Bad for You
How can you blame people who do say pasta is bad for you? You know who I am talking about: the fitness gurus, the annoying celebrities who get paid millions to look the way they do and the models who melt away at the slightest glance of real food. They all tell us to limit [...]
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