This version of ziti couldn’t be easier…and you likely have all the ingredients at home. These days, you make your dinner menus according to what chametz is left in the house. One of those chametz items is very likely a box of pasta. So why not enjoy a simple, easy to prepare, comforting, oozing-with-cheese baked…
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How to Make Pepper Steak Like the Caterer
Serving a crowd buffet-style? This pepper steak dish is intended to be prepped ahead and rewarmed…perfect for your seudah menu. People often ask where recipes come from, and honestly, every recipe has a different story. The day I received this recipe, Victoria and I had gone to interview Margie (then Schrek, now Gross), who was…
4 Ways to Make Hamantaschen (and None Involve Making or Rolling Dough)
Not up to rolling out a dough and baking hamantaschen? Get in the Purim spirit with these four easy and tasty ways to enjoy the three-cornered pastry. Hamantaschen are meant to be symbolic; no one said they need to involve a from-scratch cookie dough, a rolling pin, and a mess in the kitchen. Here are…
Two-Ingredient Side Dishes: Garlicky Roasted Potatoes
These Garlicky Roasted Potatoes are one of the side dishes you’ll make the most often in the least amount of time. If you’ve seen this post on Sweet Potatoes and this one on Green Beans, you know how easy this one is going to be as well. These garlicky roasted potatoes are my go-to Friday…
How To Cook an Awesome Steak in Not Such Awesome Weather
8 quick steps to a perfectly seasoned, perfectly done steak…every time. When I was 17 and super eager to drive, I offered to do the food shopping. My father heard that I had volunteered for the job and told me, “You can’t go. You don’t know how to pick out a good piece of steak.”…
Two-Ingredient Side Dishes: Butternut Squash with Techina and Za’atar
This butternut squash is one of the side dishes you’ll make the most often in the least amount of time. You already know the gig. You’ve made these Sweet Potatoes, these Green Beans, and even these super easy Potatoes. Now for something a little more exotic, but just as easy, try this butternut squash: Butternut…
The Zero Calorie (Ok, Almost) Minestrone Soup
Hot minestrone soup that’s filling, nutritious, and hits the spot…without many calories at all Want to enjoy a hearty, filling no-guilt side? This all-veggie minestrone-style soup hits the spot. I like to save the chopping work and use a vegetable chopper to chop up the vegetables (then they’re nice and even too). Add shredded cooked…
Vegetarian “Pho” in a Jar (or Bowl)
Crazy day ahead? Prepare this the night before and enjoy a one-bowl lunch (or one jar), whether at home or on the run. In this three-part series, Danielle Renov shares how she prepares breakfast, lunch, and dinner and serve the complete meal in one bowl. Check out the other posts here. -BCP Staff Full disclosure:…
Shake n’ Bake Crispy Chicken Drumsticks
It’s only three minutes until these crispy chicken drumsticks are in the oven (and nothing to clean up!) This crispy chicken recipe came together during the heat of July when barbecuing is the rule. The grill was already up and running and I needed a quick solution. I was in the mood for something new…something…
Chicken Paella: The One Dish Dinner (Most of) Your Family Will Love
Chicken, rice, and vegetables, cooked in one pot. It’s time for us tot try Spain’s favorite dish. While traveling through Barcelona, Spain, almost every dish we ate was served paella-style. We ate chicken paella, salmon paella, and lamb paella. On the flight home, I opened the flight magazine, and there was a recipe for chicken…
