Roasted Cod with Spinach and Mushrooms is a light and simple weeknight dinner with an easy to make lemon shallot sauce. Weeknight dinner needs to be simple and this is ready in 15 minutes. Yes, I said 15 minutes! Grab a bag of spinach, a pack of cremini mushrooms and a few fillets of cod, the rest of the ingredients I bet you have on hand. I like good food. I want it to taste like fine dining restaurant food every time. Perhaps I’ve been spoiled. I like to say I had a really good mom who made meals from scratch and that is what I’m passing down to my…
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Red Wine Braised Short Ribs are first seared then cooked low and slow until fork tender with tender mushrooms and herbs in a pool of polenta. One of the simplest restaurant quality recipes to make at home. This dish takes very little effort and produces a beautiful, comforting one pot meal. Meaty beef short ribs seared to seal in all the flavor and slow cooked in a blend of red wine, beef broth and herbs. The short ribs take center stage when served over a creamy pool of polenta. Cook the polenta according to package directions. When thickened, add a tablespoon of butter and a splash of cream to take…
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Farm raised Rib Steak with Garlic Chive Butter seared in a cast iron pan with sweet vine tomatoes bursting with flavor. Dinner doesn’t have to be a major production. In fact, the best dinners are those that take as little as 15 minutes. Using fresh, high quality ingredients turns a simple dinner into a restaurant quality dinner. Find a local farm and stock up on meat. The quality of farm fresh meat surpasses your grocery store meat in both texture and flavor. Farm Raised Rib Steak Mama’s Garden in Deming, Washington supplied the rib steak for this Rib Steak with Garlic Chive Butter. A family owned farm supplying locals with…
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This One Pan Halibut with Lemon Chive Pistou is pan seared along with garlic, butter, white wine and on-the-vine-tomatoes for a quick dinner that feels restaurant fancy. Ready in just 6 minutes AND only uses one pan means this is the perfect weeknight dinner. Fresh, local halibut doesn’t take long to cook to perfection. It’s moist, buttery and drizzled with flavor from the lemon chive pistou. Lemon Chive Pistou tops the One Pan Halibut What is a lemon chive pistou? It’s really just a fancy way of saying herbed oil and with so few ingredients, you want to use the best oil you have on hand. My newest find is…
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Fresh Raspberry Lemonade Pound Cake, raspberry and lemon cream between buttery lemon pound cake with lemon cream cheese frosting and fresh raspberries. Fresh, sweet raspberries are the perfect fruit to pair with bright citrusy lemon in this Fresh Raspberry Lemonade Pound Cake. Lemon is added to every step of this cake from the frosting to the filling and even the pound cake with accents of sweet raspberries. This buttery pound cake holds up perfectly to the raspberry and lemon pastry cream, making for the perfect slice of cake. I happened to have my mother’s raspberry freezer jam to use for the filling, but store bought jam would work as well.…
