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Baked Chicken Cordon Bleu | Weeknight Recipes

Jess — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 08:00:26 +0000

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 [...]

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Baked Panko-Breaded Chicken Nuggets

Jess — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:00:22 +0000

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 [...]

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Farro Vegetable Risotto | Week 3 of January’s Super Food Challenge with Hey Fran Hey

Jess — Sat, 29 Dec 2012 23:00:20 +0000

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 [...]

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New Year, New You in the Kitchen Challenge

Jess — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:58:51 +0000

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 [...]

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Fish {Tilapia} Baked en Papillote with a French Vinaigrette | Dear Cook Smarts, I need more easy weeknight recipes

Jess — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 21:31:01 +0000

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 [...]

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Under 10 Minute Green Beans with Fennel | Dear Cook Smarts, How can I be more efficient in the kitchen?

Jess — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 06:52:46 +0000

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 [...]

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5 Cooking Secrets Your Mom Never Told You | Cooking Basics

Jess — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:04:15 +0000

Your mom may have taught you how to follow a recipe or bake the best chocolate chip cookies, but the wisdom of these 5 cooking secrets are rarely passed on from generation to generation. Perhaps because these secrets seem more common sense than anything truly secretive, they’re often overlooked as real wisdom to be shared. However, with fewer and fewer [...]

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Best Way to Store Herbs for Longest Shelf Life | Cooking Basics

Jess — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 17:00:04 +0000

It’s looking like “Herb Week” over here at CS HQ. On Monday, we featured a quick herb sauce that can be used to dress up any routine weeknight dish, and today we’re going to share the best way to store herbs. Store herbs correctly and they’ll go from a few days of shelf-life to a few weeks. It will require [...]

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Quick Herb Sauce | Dear Cook Smarts

Jess — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 17:11:47 +0000

One of the most common complaints I hear from my clients is, “I cook the same thing every week, and I’m bored!” Instead of giving them a list of 50 new ingredients they need to purchase (because then we’d be giving them a new problem – filling their pantries with items used once and then left to collect dust), I [...]

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Pureed Kabocha Squash & Sweet Potato Red Curry Soup | Cooking Basics

Jess — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 23:35:08 +0000

Even though it’s summer, I’ve been on a curry kick lately. As someone who has spent a lot of time sweating over plates of spicy food in hot and humid SE Asia, curry is a year-round meal for me. We’ve already featured curry a few times on this blog; there was our Chicken and Zucchini Green Curry that gave you [...]

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