Cooking Tips

Best Roasting Pan Around!

How many years was I frustrated by using flimsy little baking/cookie sheet pans to oven-roast veggies, or what have you?  Take the oven temp above 350°F and you would have a bowed pan and sometimes food in the bottom of your oven because when it bowed food popped out.  Cheesy is the word that comes to mind when I think …

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Cooked Quinoa spread out on a baking sheet to cool

My sweet man, Alex had a ”manly” get together he was attending and needed me to make him a dish to take.  We know how much men love their carbohydrates…heck, who doesn’t?  Anyway, this dish needed to travel well and stay at room temperature for several hours without spoiling.  So my Quinoa Salad with Cumin Vinaigrette was born! Again, just looking at what you have and …

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Parsley

  And, I’m not talking about a new singing group.  I’m referring to the technique for getting a lovely orange slice without all the pith (white stuff) attached.  It really is simple to do and it makes the oranges so delectable! I was inspired to make this little salad because my garden box had some good green going on.  About …

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