Recipes

These winning chicken rolls with a crispy crust are both impressive and easy to make. My family and friends absolutely love them!

I love to experiment with many different types of recipes. But as a mother of young children, I rely on family-friendly ones more and more. Everyone enjoys this stew.

For an elegant but easy dinner you can put together in a twinkling for guests or unexpected visitors, these lightly breaded medallions are truly something special!

Not only do refrigerated breadsticks lend a fun twist to pizza, but they make this dish a weeknight staple at my house. Feeding kids? Slice pieces into small strips and let the kids dip each strip into marinara sauce. They’ll love it!

Reprinted with permission from Mark Bittman's Dinner for Everyone. As for riffing, Bittman says, "The lesson in the Vietnamese Bean Thread salad is to use cooking liquid as a way to build flavor. Whether you decide to cook squid instead of shrimp or pork instead of chicken, you’re going to end up with beautifully seasoned bean threads, before you even dress them."

This recipe was inspired by one of my favorite restaurant dishes in New Orleans: honey shrimp tempura with a wasabi cream sauce. For my own version, I made crispy shrimp croquettes flavored with lemon, scallions, and parsley, and topped it with a wasabi-spiked aioli. It's a great summer dish to enjoy with a nice cold beer!

This recipe is an adaptation of a shrimp bisque from Williams-Sonoma Soup Cookbook. It's a lovely soup, but I like my bisque a little spicy with some heat and substance. Deviating a bit from the classic recipe, I added tomatillos and chipotles en adobo to the shellfish broth. I pureed half the cooked and peeled shrimp, then for the finished product chopped the remainder of the shrimp and added it to the bisque.

This nontraditional burger option that uses traditional paella inspired ingredients that are easily made into a delicious burger.

I got this recipe from my sister and my family really likes it a lot. It makes the house smell so good! The amount of garlic might seem high, but it's just right. You get every bit of the flavor without overpowering the other ingredients.

This luscious and lemony pasta dish is so easy, it's become one of our weekly meal mainstays. But it's also elegant enough to serve to guests.

These taco-stuffed peppers are ready in record time. The bell peppers create a colorful container for this meal.

If you haven't tried it, flounder is a delicate and sweet fish. Bread it with cornflake-Parmesan mix and put it on the table in 25 minutes.

These beef patties with gravy go well with mashed potatoes, rice pilaf, egg noodles and really just about any other starch. This is simple, comforting home cooking at it's finest.

This quick, easy rustic Italian tortellini soup recipe is flavorful and comforting. Italian sausage, spinach and tender cheese tortellini simmer in a rich tomato broth, creating a soup that cooks for only 20 minutes.

Shrimp Alfredo has a fine-dining reputation that belies how easy it is to make this classy pasta dish at home.