Dinner

Sheet Pan Butternut Squash Dinner

Sheet pan butternut squash is a quick vegetarian main – made with squash, red onions, pine nuts, tahini yogurt sauce, za’atar, and cilantro!

Summer Chicken Thighs with Peaches and Thyme

These summertime chicken thighs with peaches and thyme are cooked on the stove – no oven required! They’re naturally sweetened with caramelized onions and currants and braised in sherry. Bonus: they’re a great way to use up hard or mealy peaches!

Halibut with Lemon and Olive Tapenade

Halibut with lemon and olive tapenade is one of my go-to quick-but-light warm weather dinners. Fresh halibut is marinated in lemon, garlic, and olive oil, baked, then topped with cool olives in a fresh lemon, garlic, chive sauce.

Abruzzese Meatballs (tiny meatballs)

These tiny Abruzzese-style meatballs are cooked in a lemony white wine sauce – they’re super yummy tossed with pasta! They’re a great choice if your kids don’t like red sauce but do like tiny meatballs + pasta.

Spinach Couscous with Roasted Carrots

Spinach couscous with roasted carrots takes about 30 minutes to prepare. It’s a combination of salty, sweet, tangy, and fresh – perfect for a light spring family dinner.

Sourdough Flatbread Pizza

If you have some sourdough discard on hand, this whole wheat sourdough flatbread pizza is a perfect cross between focaccia and pizza, but also healthy and fast . . .

Ricotta Meatballs with Herbs

These beef and ricotta meatballs are delicious and flavorful over plain pasta with olive oil – or pasta with tomato sauce. They have a light texture and are almost sweet due to the ricotta cheese.

Whole Wheat Dutch Baby

Simple recipe, with impressive results, and nearly irresistible for the little ones . . .

Crispy Mushroom Salad

I love eating crispy mushroom tacos with our family. One night I accidentally made a delicious crispy mushroom salad, complete with turmeric yogurt, feta, corn and caramelized onions, and cilantro. Tacos are a popular family meal over here. Especially our crispy mushroom and steak tacos with turmeric yogurt. They’re ready in under 30 minutes, and

Grandma’s Homemade Egg Noodles

We call these bright yellow egg noodles straight from my Grandma’s Indiana farm “Grandma’s Noodles.” (Pictured above: Grandma’s Chicken Noodle Soup) My grandma’s homemade egg noodles were my favorite childhood comfort food. My grandma would make a huge batch of noodles whenever she’d come out to visit us growing up. It was a favorite tradition.

Simplest Easy Chicken Stock

The simplest, easy chicken stock that feels like home in a bowl and only takes a couple of minutes of active time in the kitchen!

Greek Lemon Chicken and Potatoes (or Celery Root) with Spinach

This Greek lemon chicken is roasted over potatoes – or, even better if you can find it, celery root. The chicken fat combines with lemon and oregano to roast the potatoes / celery root and doubles as a sauce for spinach, making this a true one-pot meal.

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