Super approachable.  Super delicious.  

This banana bread recipe can be made as bread, as muffins, frosted, filled, plain, or fancy. Just have fun with it!Adapted from Better Homes and Garden New Cook Book. ...

chicken with a tasty wine and soy sauce - guaranteed to become your favorite chicken dish -

I have baked thousands of pizzas (ok, i cheated and owned a pizzaria). I messed with the dough recipe all the time. I added onion powder, garlic powder, paprika, used different sorts ...

It's all about the substitutions. So, when  I say 1/4 teaspoon of fresh grated nutmeg do not decide to just use lame old ground nutmeg. Srsly. Otherwise you end up with the same old boring oatmeal cookies everyone makes. ...

This is a quick and easy recipe for minestrone soup adapted from the Betty Crocker Cookbook for Women.  It comes in handy when you don't want to spend all day over a pot of soup, but you'd rather not eat out of a can...enjoy! ...

On a warm summer afternoon, egg salad sandwiches make a perfect lunch. The olive oil lends this version a much richer flavor than traditional mayonnaisey egg salad.Enjoy with lots ...

Something mentioned in the 100 Foods You Have To Eat Or Else thingy. You can make it just fine at home, easy. It's not much harder than sardines on toast. It's also better: if you like garlic butter, and you're not violently prejudiced about fish, you'll almost ...

Yet another dinner for people who drink milk out of the carton and eat over the sink. It's right out of the can! All ingredients available at your local corner store! Bonus: fish is good ...

This is the basic way to make it, straight-up. This serves 2 — multiplication is straightforward but tedious, as you’ll see. I've put it down as "medium" difficulty, but once you've ...

a quick and easy salse recipe

Technically, Alma Loewenthal Schratter was my great-grandma. Her waffles live on in family cookbooks and are a staple of my weekends.The beaten egg whites provide extra loft and keep ...

The name says it just right.  Mmm baby, I love this soup!  You can make it really dang spicy, if you dare.

Adapted from an Alton Brown recipe, this brownie satisfies my craving for coconut and chocolate. The walnuts are easily omitted from this recipe, for those who don't like them. ...

Simple wild rice dish, earthy in tone, rich with flavors but not heavy. 

This is one of my old stand-bys. It's super easy and basically impossible to mess up.  AND, b/c it has a kielbasa in it, it's delicious. Vegans can use that veggie-sausage stuff. Does it come in kielbasa flavor? The recipe makes a cubic ton so you can ...

A vegetarian version of crab rangoon, where the squash blossom is actually the crispy outer part. Unless you have a dedicated plant, squash blossoms are likely to be available only ...

umm delicious is the only way to describe this cake. I can add moist and well textured but the ingredient really speak for themselves.