Easy Recipes

I love radishes - they are crunchy and slightly spicy and are a great addition to a salad or sandwich.

If you buy radishes, and then are not sure where to find radish recipes to use, here is one of my favorite radish salads. It is very simple to make, and it only has a few ingredients, but it tastes great!

More salad recipes:

- Greek Salad Recipe

- Cucumber Salad

Tools You Need To Make Spring Radish Salad:

Knife
Cutting Board
Salad Bowl

Ingredients You Need To Make Spring Radish Salad:

A bunch of radishes
1 Tablespoon of dill
3 scallions
Half a bunch of green leaf lettuce
2 tablespoons of sour cream

Salt
Pepper

How To Make Spring Radish Salad:

Cut the radishes into think slices.

Chop the scallions, dill and lettuce.

In a salad bowl combine radishes, dill, scallions and lettuce. Add salt and pepper, mix. Add sour cream, mix.

So what do you do it you want to make cabbage rolls, but don’t want to make the actual cabbage rolls. You know, making the cabbage leaves pliable, stuffing each roll, etc, etc.

Well, in that case you look for easy recipes for cabbage rolls. My favorite lazy cabbage rolls recipe uses all the cabbage rolls ingredients, but instead of making the actual rolls, you make a cabbage rolls stew. I make a stew with meat, rice, carrots and cabbage. The stew tastes just like your regular cabbage rolls, except that it is a much easier recipe. No reason to roll the cabbage rolls.

What else should you serve with your lazy cabbage rolls? I would recommend a salad:

- Greek Salad Recipe

- Goat Cheese and Marinated Onions Salad

- Cucumber Salad

Chopped Cabbage:

Lazy Cabbage Rolls:

Tools You Need To Make Lazy Cabbage Rolls:

Knife
Cutting Board
Skillet For Frying The Meat
Pot To Make Lazy Cabbage Rolls

Ingredients For Lazy Cabbage Rolls:

1.5 pounds of ground beef
3 medium carrots
1 medium onion
1/2 of medium cabbage
28 oz can of crushed tomatoes
1/3 cup of rice
water

oil for frying
salt
pepper

parsley, sour cream

Chop the cabbage.

Chop the onions and carrots. Saute the meat, onions and carrots on a skillet.

Once the meat is cooked, put it into the pot. Add the rice, cabbage, tomatoes and water to the pot.

Bring the pot to to boil, reduce the fire and simmer the stew for until it is done, and the rice is done. Mix the ingredients in the pot from time to time, so that everything mixes well together.

When serving, top the lazy cabbage rolls with sour cream and/or parsley.

Looking for easy recipes? Here is one! This pear salad is very easy to make, and it is very tasty too! Another thing about this salad that you can substitute many ingredients for others, and you will still have a very tasty salad!

For example, you may use fresh or canned pears, you may use blue cheese or Gorgonzola cheese, you may use pecans or walnuts - the salad will come out great.

Here are a few more salad recipes:
- A healthy salad with beans, Black Beans And Corn Salad

- Great Greek salad with vegetables and feta, Greek Salad

- Salad with goat cheese, Goat Cheese and Marinated Onions Salad.

Ingredients For Pear Salad:

2-3 canned pears
Mesclun greens
Half of a small onion
Handful of Pecans
3 oz of blue cheese

1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 tablespoon of apple cider vinegar
salt
pepper

How To Make Pear Salad

Chop and toast pecans.

Chop the onion.

Chop the pears.

In a salad bowl, combine pears, onions, mesclun greens, nuts. Dress with oil and vinegar, mix. Add salt and pepper to taste, crumble blue cheese on top.

Some time ago I posted a French toast recipe, that was a recipe for sweet French toast with fruit.

I have been making sweet French toast for a very long time. Usually serving it with fruits, berries, syrup, jam - you name it. And recently I started thinking - what id I wanted a French toast recipe for savory French toast? How would I make it savory.

Turns out that it is just as easy to make savory French toast as it is to make the sweet one. You just vary the ingredients a bit, and you will get a completely different take on French toast. Here is a savory French toast recipe.

And for more brunch recipes, check out Ham and cheese sandwich. Or how about soup for brunch - Cauliflower soup. And French toast with bananas and raspberries is great for branch as well.

Ingredients For French Toast:

4 Slices of Regular White Bread
3 Eggs
3 Tablespoons of Milk
A handful of chopped parsley
A handful of chopped dill
Salt
Pepper

Oil For Frying

How To Make French Toast

Beat the eggs in a bowl. Add milk, parsley, dill, salt and pepper. Mix.

Heat up the oil in the saute pan. Dip both sides of the bread into the egg mixture, allow to soak for 10 seconds for each side.

Fry the toast for a few minutes on each side, until each side is golden brown.

Do you like sweet or savory French toast best? Share in the comments!

Looking for an easy apple crisp recipe? A while ago I posted a recipe of Pear and Apple Crumble. A big difference between that recipe and this one is that in the crumble I melted butter, and I didn’t melt it in this one. Having tried both ways, I prefer not melting the butter, as doing that produced an even tastier topping.

I love to cook savory foods, but I don’t cook desserts that often, and I thought that this was an extremely simple dessert to make. Try it - it is easy to make, and results are great. Oh, and serve your apple crisp with vanilla ice cream, just like you see in the picture. It is delicious that way!

And here are a few more recipes you will enjoy: Reuben sandwich, Steak Fajitas Recipe, Beet salad.

Ingredients for Apple Crisp

6 large apples
2 tablespoons of brown sugar
1.5 tablespoons of flour
a pinch of cinnamon

For the topping:

3 tablespoons of butter
1 cup of oats
1/2 cup of flour
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of chopped almonds
a pinch of cinnamon

How To Make Apple Crisp

Peel, then core and chop your apples.

Mix together apples, two tablespoons of brown sugar, one tablespoon of flour and a pinch of cinnamon.

Make the topping: Chop the butter into small pieces. In another mixing bowl combine butter, oats, 1/2 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of brown sugar, 1/2 cup of chopped pecans, a pinch of cinnamon.

Put the apple mixture on the bottom of the 9×13 baking pan. Top with the topping.

Pre-heat the oven to 350F. Bake the apple crisp for 40-50 minutes, until done.

Serve warm, with ice cream.

So many people ask how to make hash, because they think that making hash is extremely complicated and requires a lot of ingredients.

Well, I have great news for you! It is actually easy to make very tasty and great looking corned beef hash, and here is the corned beef hash recipe to prove it!

You can use any color pepper. Red pepper makes it look especially great, though.

Tools You Will Need For Corned Beef Hash Recipe

Knife
Cutting Board
Saute Pan

Ingredients You Need For Corned Beef Hash Recipe

1 Medium Red (or yellow, of green) Pepper
1 Medium Onion
0.5 Pounds Of Cooked Corned Beef
1 Pound Of Cooked Potatoes

Oil for frying

How To Make Corned Beef Hash

Chop onion, pepper, corned beef and potatoes into small pieces.

Heat up the oil in the saute pan.

Add onions and cook for 3-5 minutes, stirring constantly. Add peppers and continue cooking until peppers soften up. Add potatoes and corned beef and cook for 5 more minutes, until everything is cooked through.

Making brunch? Corned beef goes great with eggs, or Caramelized Onions and Goat Cheese Frittata, or just with bread and a very simple salad.

Reuben sandwich is one of my favorite sandwich. Except that I am not a fan of sauerkraut, and I have always used cole slaw in a Reuben sandwich instead of sauerkraut.

Recently I found out that people have been making Reuben sandwich with cole slaw instead of sauerkraut for a while. Apparently, this sandwich is called a Rachel sandwich. So, depending on which one you prefer, cole slaw or sauerkraut in your sandwich, you are making a Reuben sandwich or a Rachel sandwich.

Cheese on the Reuben (or Rachel) sandwich is optional to me. What’s not optional is the Thousand Island dressing, corned beef and cole slaw.

The Reuben Sandwich will go great with Potato Salad Without Mayonnaise or Potato Salad With Mayonnaise, or even with a Greek salad.

Ingredients You Need To Make Reuben Sandwich

2 slices of bread
3 slices of corned beef
1/2 tablespoon of Thousands Islands Dressing
1 slice of cheese (optional)
1 tablespoon of cole slaw
some butter

How To Make A Reuben Sandwich

Pre-heat your grill.

Grill the corned beef for a few minutes on each side, so it is warmed up.

Butter the bread.

Create your sandwich: Put one slice of bread on the grill, buttered side down. Put corned on top of the bread. Put the dressing on top of corned beef, then cole slaw. If you are using cheese on top, if you are using it.

Now, this is important: Put the second slice of bread on top of cheese, buttered side up. Close the grill and grill for 3-5 minutes, until the sandwich turns golden brown.

Is healthy eating one of your resolutions for 2010? Many people give up on the healthy eating resolution very early in the year for many different reasons. One of the reasons so many people give up on it is very simple - they did not have a Healthy Eating Plan.

Creating your Healthy Eating Plan is very simple. Have a plan that helps you put together healthy meals at home, and you will be much more likely to stick with your healthy eating resolution.

Another thing is to not become upset when you eat something that you don’t think is healthy. So what is you had some fast food yesterday or had some chocolate cake at the restaurant? The key is to not make fast food and chocolate cake the main pieces of your diet. If you eat healthy 80% of the time and then eat foods that are not too healthy the other 20% of the time, that is still a reasonably good diet. Don’t go for perfect - eating healthy some of time is still better than not eating healthy at all.

To help you eat healthier this year, here are five healthy eating tips:

- Create A Weekly Menu In Advance. Doing this requires some planning, but creating a menu in advance is the best thing you can do to help yourself keep your promise of healthy eating.

Decide on the recipes you will use for your meals, and which ingredients you will use in the recipe. That way you will never have to think about what to cook for dinner - you will have all the ideas and recipes at your fingertips! The key here is to choose easy recipes that will help you make your dinner easily!

Once you decide on what you are going to cook, write a shopping list and include the ingredients for all the dishes that you are planning on making next week.

Double check your list to make sure you include all the ingredients you need. It will be very frustrating when you start cooking dinner and then realize that you are missing an important ingredient.

- Include Salads In Your Menu. When you are creating your menu, make sure to include salads. Salads are easy to make, and they are usually healthy.

A salad made with lots of raw vegetables and a simple oil-vinegar dressing will make your dinner tastier and healthier.

Here are some salads to take a look at: Potato Salad Without Mayonnaise, Beet Salad, Greek Salad, Panzanella Salad.

- Include Soups In Your Menu. Just like with salads, you should add soups to your menu as well. Grains, lean meats, beans and vegetables

Here are a few soups: Vegetable Soup, Beef and Barley Soup.

- Cook A Variety Of Foods. If you cook just one or two different dishes, you will get bored of them really fast and then you will go back to junk food and chocolate cake.

Find recipes that you like and add them to your dinner rotation. Do you like a particular cuisine? Do you like a particular dish you had at a restaurant? Do research and explore how to make it yourself - you will learn something new and you will feel great about cooking your dinner!

Explore different cuisines: Greek recipes, Italian food, Mediterranean recipes.

Have healthy eating tips? Share them in the comments!

I have posted about potato salad before, but both potato salad without eggs and potato salad with eggs contain mayonnaise.

There are people who like their potato salad without mayonnaise, so here is one recipe for that. This potato salad is still very flavorful because of the dressing, and scallions and parsley.

A few more salad recipes: black beans and corn salad, Greek salad, goat cheese and marinated onions salad.

Ingredients For Potato Salad:

2 pounds of potatoes
4 scallions
1 tablespoon of parsley

Ingredients For Potato Salad Dressing:

3 tablespoons of canola oil
1 small white onion
1 teaspoon of Dijon mustard
1 tablespoon of red wine vinegar
salt
pepper

How To Make Potato Salad Without Mayonnaise

Peel and boil potatoes. Once the potatoes are cooked, wait for them to cool.

Chop scallions. Chop parsley.

Chop the onions. Heat up the oil in the skillet. Add the onions to the skillet and cook until they are golden brown. Turn off the heat, let it cool for a bit and stir in mustard and vinegar.

In a salad bowl combine potatoes, parsley, scallions and dressing. Mix gently to combine.

Here is another great dish where you can wrap all the ingredients into a wrap. Here I am not using fresh vegetables to add to the meat, but rather fried peppers and onions. The fajitas look fun and very colorful with the red bell peppers.

Just like with the steak tacos, you must cut the flank steak thinly, and you must cut it against the grain.

Serve the fajitas with rice, refried beans, black bean and corn salad, or chickpea salad.

More fun dishes with wraps: steak tacos, my take on lamb shawarma, lamb patties with tzatziki sauce.

Ingredients For Steak Fajitas

1.5 Pounds of Flank Steak
Fried Peppers and Onions
Oil for frying
Corn or flour tortillas
salt
pepper

How To Make Steak Fajitas

Prepare the Fried Peppers and Onions.

Heat up oil in a saute pan. Add the flank steak and sear on one side. Turn and sear on the other side.

Pre-heat the oven to 375F. Put the steak in the oven to finish cooking to the desired level of doneness. Depending on your steak, and how you want it cooked, it can take 10-25 minutes. Make sure to check the steak temperature with a meat thermometer, so that you don’t undercook and that you don’t overcook your steak.

Well-done steak is 160F.
Medium-well steak 150-155F.
Medium steak 140-145F, etc.

Once the steak comes out of the oven, don’t cut into it immediately. Let it rest for 10-15 minutes. After it rests put it on a cutting board and cut it thinly, against the grain.

Build the fajitas with steaks, peppers and onions.