Simple, Flexible Dinner Salad

Make this salad and its creamy dressing with chicken or shrimp, crème fraîche or sour cream, simple or fancy greens and vegetables. All good.

Kale Soup with Potatoes and Chorizo in an Instant Pot

Kale Soup with Potatoes and Chorizo in an Instant Pot is refresingly different and quite satifsying. It’s so good!

Where has Rotisserie Chicken Soup been all my life? Use the bones to make the broth, add the chicken at the end and warm it through.

This pan-fried chicken breast is delicious, but the real star of the show is the cranberry relish, made from frozen cranberries and walnuts.

Ever had a dried-fruit jam? This dried apricot jam has just as apricotty a taste as any apricot jam. It also has an interesting texture.

It’s easy to make this delicious, homemade cilantro-lime rice in an Instant Pot. It’s great freshly-made, but really great reheated.

Homemade fried rice with veg, scrambled egg, and your favorite protein, cooked in a cast-iron skillet. Fabulous fresh, lovely leftover.

These fudgy chocolate budinos have a ganache-like texture. I suspect they may not be authentic, but I know that they’re delicious.

This is a recipe for six fruit-packed blackberry hazelnut spice muffins with very healthy, homy vibe. Easily doubled to make twelve.