I’ve been wanting to come up with a healthy recipe for Chinese chicken salad.  I love the brightness of oranges and tangerines in salad, and combining their juice with some Asian ingredients makes a flavorful dressing.  But all to often when ordering an Asian chicken salad in restaurants, the salad dressing is loaded with sugar (as is the chicken marinade) and the the salad itself has mountains of friend wonton strips piled on top.  I decided to keep my recipe  simple using seasonal spinach, carrots and tangerines to make a flavorful, healthy and easy Chinese chicken salad recipe.

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One of our favorite salads ever is at Dave and Buster’s, the arcade for adults.  It’s a chicken caesar salad but what makes it spectacular is the crispy parmesan crust on the chicken.  While I won’t claim any similarity to the Dave and Buster’s chicken caesar salad, after a few years of experimenting I’ve come up with a parmesan crusted chicken recipe that leaves us equally satisfied.

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I’m realizing that we tend to eat a lot more meat in the winter. The rest of the year we usually stretch our meats in pastas, casseroles or stir fry like this week’s beef broccoli.  But in winter we often want meaty main dishes like crispy fried chicken, pan fried steak, or these simple and homey garlic lemon chicken thighs. Read more

I’ve had the idea of a buffalo chicken blue cheese dip recipe in my head for quite some time now.  I love the taste of buffalo wings dipped in blue cheese dressing, but so many people I know don’t like the wings because they think the small amount of meat is not worth the effort to eat it.  Although I may disagree, I wanted to create something with the flavor of buffalo wings and blue cheese that would still please my pickier friends and family. Read more

Have you heard of Good Bite?  It’s a fun food site full of videos and great recipes, with some of my favorite people to boot!  I’d been trying to recreate a Chinese friend’s recipe for hoisin wings but couldn’t quite get it like I remembered it.  Then my friend Jaden put her hoisin wings recipe up on GoodBite and I realized that what I was missing was honey!  I’d been making them with brown sugar and though they were good, they weren’t like I remembered. Read more