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What I Eat (When Cooking Sounds Exhausting)
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Hi Reader, There’s “I don’t feel like cooking” and then there’s “if I have to chop one more thing, I might cry.” Light, Easy Dinner IdeasBecause there are nights when “cooking” sounds like an extreme sport. WHAT'S INSIDE...
Easy Gazpacho
This easy gazpacho is a chilled summer soup made with tomatoes, cucumber, pepper, and onion blitzed in the blender and seasoned with hot sauce. Simple, fresh, and healthy.☞ Try this recipeCarrot Ribbon Salad
Really quick to put together, this easy carrot salad will happily sit alongside many other dishes. It is delicious as part of a Vietnamese noodle salad, alongside spinach falafels, or in pitas and wraps to add crunch.☞ Try this recipeApple, Parmesan, & Mixed Green Salad⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.86 from 21 votes
This apple, Parmesan, and mixed green salad brings together a few simple ingredients to a sophisticated effect. Effortless and elegant, what could be better? Oh yeah, it's healthy, too.☞ Try this recipeSpaghetti With Raw Tomatoes⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.89 from 17 votes
With tomatoes in season, this pasta with fresh tomatoes is the epitome of good and simple. Eat it al fresco—it's like taking an Italian vacation.☞ Try this recipePortuguese Salt Cod & Chickpea Salad
This Portuguese salt cod and chickpea salad, known as salada de bacalhau e grao, is full of chickpeas, flakes of salt cod, onion, and egg.☞ Try this recipePepper & Egg Sandwich⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.8 from 15 votes
This pepper and egg sandwich is simply (and satisfyingly) scrambled eggs along with sweet bell peppers and onions and stuffed into bread. An Italian American staple perfect for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and in between. Here's how to make it.☞ Try this recipeGrilled Artichokes
These grilled artichokes with pepper and lemon are just as lovely served alone as they are with your best dipping sauce. A simple, surprising, impressive appetizer or side that's easy and, thankfully, doesn't heat up the kitchen.☞ Try this recipeTandoori Chicken Wraps
These tandoori chicken wraps combine grilled chicken marinated in yogurt, ginger, garlic, and Middle Eastern spices with a cooling yogurt and mint dressing. Everything is wrapped in tortillas, pita, or naan.☞ Try this recipeReuben Sandwich
Use smoked or non-smoked corned beef brisket in this recipe but don't deny yourself the joy of tangy sauerkraut and the glorious nuttiness of Swiss cheese.☞ Try this recipeMeatball Pizza
This meatball pizza, made with tomato sauce, mozzarella, and the surprise element of beef and sausage meatballs piled atop pizza dough, takes homemade pizza to a whole new and indulgent level.☞ Try this recipe |
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Hi Reader, For most of the year a tomato is a sad, pink, mealy thing I refuse to buy. Then for about six weeks in summer it becomes the best thing in the kitchen, and I build half my meals around it.A real July tomato, still warm from the garden or the market, needs almost nothing done to it.That is the whole point of tomato season. It is the one stretch of the year when the best thing you can do to your food is get out of its way. Good salt, good oil, maybe some torn basil and a slab of...
Hi Reader, A ripe peach is a short-lived thing. It is rock hard at the store, then perfect for about a day and a half, then it is jam whether you planned on jam or not.I bought a basket anyway, because a good July peach is one of the few foods I will rearrange a week around.Use them at the right moment and a basket goes a long way. The firm ones go into something that cooks. The dead-ripe ones, the ones that drip down your wrist, you eat over the sink or fold raw into a salad before the...
Hi Reader, By the Wednesday after the Fourth, the idea of another heavy dinner just does not appeal. You have grilled. You have eaten ribs. The body wants something lighter and quicker, and it wants it without much fuss.That is fish weather.A fillet of salmon, a pile of shrimp, a whole fish if you are feeling it: most of these are on the plate faster than the grilled food and leave you feeling like you ate well rather than ate a lot.The trouble is that seafood is the thing home cooks are most...