Quick and easy summer recipes with photo added by professional chefs

Chicken, Tomatoes & Rotini Salad

Hearty pasta salad to help use up leftover roast chicken or turkey. I've a bumper crop of grape tomatoes which…

Pumpkin Cranberry Nut Granola

Need a last-minute food gift or host gift idea? This makes, bakes, cools and can be bagged within an hour! Use as a topping on yogurt, ice cream,…

Classic Potato Salad & An Unscientific Potato Challenge

For the heck of it on a dull afternoon we put the “scientific method” to the taste test to determine the best…

Skinny Potato Salad, Caesar Style

Here’s a fresh new take on potato salad. If you like potato salad and Caesar salad you are going to love this…

Barramundi with Nasturtium Pesto

We love GOOD pesto in this house. Just before the killer freeze this week, I picked Nasturtium flowers to make…

CHICKEN GRILLING SAUCE A AWARD WINER

ON LEON VALLEY NATIONAL NIGHT OUT I GRILLED THIS. CHICKEN GRILLING SAUCE AND GOT TWO PLACKS GIVEN BY THE MAYOR…

Zucchini Meatballs in Cream Sauce - Microwave Quick!

Several good reasons to save this recipe: to use up zucchini; to keep the kitchen cool by microwaving the main…

Ham, Peas & Pasta Salad

A nice choice for a summer cookout or picnic, this pasta salad can be made up to a day ahead for convenience. My pasta choice for this is ditalini,…

EGGS VEGGED OUT - Sunny Side Up

Cooking up a specialty for Sunday brunch on a lazy day. This morning...My ' Honey ' and I cracked some eggs on a vegetable bed of goodness!!!

Vegetables blanched corn cakes (Traitional rcipe fron valencia-Sain)

These corn cakes fill the can or want to, although traditionally here fill…

Bacon Cheese Garlic Bread

We were invited to an early Thanksgiving potluck. We offered to bring garlic bread. We thought we would test a new recipe we were working on. “Bacon…

Chinese Dragon Chicken

For me, Cooking is also such a dialogue. The sincere gratitude for life ,admiration for nature , the passion for cooking—all of these are…

BOUDIN ENCHILADA

WHEN WE WERE AT A SUPPER BOWL PARTY, WE WERE EATING BOUDIN TACOS AND THEY WERE SO GOOD AND THIS STARTED THE RECIPE. I HAVE SERVE THIS A NUMBER TIMES…

Italian Pasta and Vegetable Salad

This pasta salad has a nice texture balance of smooth to crunchy, plus the tart-sweet of red wine vinegar and…

Raspberry Chicken