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Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu In last week’s “Heroes in the Kitchen” post, Carla Graves shared her story about how cooking has remained a constant through all of her life stages. Family dinners were an important part of her childhood, and Carla has made home cooked meals a priority with her 2 year old son. I asked her to give us one [...]

As a kid, one of my guilty pleasures was McDonald’s chicken McNuggets. I could inhale a 20 piece box without a problem (I admit to having an extremely large appetite for my size). Luckily my parents made these meals very rare treats, and as I grew up I and learned to be healthier, I steered clear of the golden arches [...]

For week 3 of January’s Super-Food Challenge with Hey Fran Hey, we’re going to introduce you to farro, also known as the new “it” grain (if the Huffington Post declares it, it must be true). Farro is a whole grain (though unfortunately not gluten-free but gluten-low) that has a hearty but chewy texture that makes it hold up incredibly well in [...]

New Year, New You in the Kitchen from Cook Smarts on Vimeo Even though we’ve got a lot of happy Weekly Eats subscribers, we know that quite a lot of folks have had trouble finding the motivation to start a weekly meal plan routine. For all you folks who have resolved to cook more and be healthier year after year but haven’t quite followed [...]

If there is one fish recipe you should know, it’s this one – baked fish en papillote. It’s delicious, fool-proof, healthy, easy, budget-friendly, and fun. Does that check all the necessary boxes? Oh, did I mention it’s easy? There is minimal prep and then it all goes into the oven, out of your sight for 10 minutes. You can use [...]

In the Dang household vegetables were part of dinner every single night. Sometimes they were part of a more elaborate dish, like carrots and turnips in a chicken curry, but more often than not, they were just popped into a container with some water (and sometimes even butter) and microwaved. My mom would get home from a long day at [...]