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Last-Minute Pad Thai
The less time I spend on the computer, the less time I *want* to spend on the computer. Can you dig it? Raising little kiddos is fun – and exhausting. At the end of a long day of cooking, baking,...
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Ready-to-Cook Meals Delivered to Your Door! A Review of the Blue Apron Meal...
Love to cook? Well, if you don’t, you probably aren’t reading Every Food Fits. (Unless you’re reading this because you’re my husband; thank you for supporting my passions, honey!) But I digress. In the...
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What is a “New Jewish Table?” That’s open to interpretation. – Recipe & Book...
In Todd Gray and Ellen Kassoff Gray’s cookbook, “The New Jewish Table,” the emphasis is on seasonal cooking and how intermarriage – Todd, executive chef at D.C.’s Equinox Restaurant, was raised...
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Arroz Negro Con Pollo
The dinner so delicious I had to blog about it immediately following my meal. Seriously. My mother-in-law, Vivian, shared a wonderful recipe for traditional Cuban/Puerto Rican arroz con pollo. I’ve...
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Strawberry Balsamic Pork Chops
This is not a recipe. This is the tasty result of a spur-of-the-moment experiment. Ready to go on an adventure in the kitchen? OK. Let’s go. Strawberry Balsamic Pork Chops Print recipe Ingredients pork...
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Kitchen Sink Summer Vegetable Bake
So many vegetables from this week’s Green Grocer, so little desire to make several different meals with them. What’s a gal to do? I’ll tell you what *this* gal did. She asked Twitter. And dear Jenna,...
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Southwestern Chicken Green Chili
Is it green chili or green chile? The name comes from New Mexican chile peppers, but it seems those peppers are actually Hatch chiles, which aren’t in this stew, though the poblano green chile is in...
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Warm Nutty Vinaigrette
A recent Washington’s Green Grocer delivery brought my first head of red cabbage. Ooh, red cabbage! Wait…red cabbage? What do I make with it? I found a recipe for a warm dressing and modified it to...
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Challah French Toast Bake – HOLLA!
Everyone at your brunch table will “holla” for this dish. It’s like eating cake for breakfast, but healthier. I modified this Serious Eats Challah Bread Pudding to achieve the following awesomeness....
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Piece-of-Cake Salmon Cakes
“Mix a couple dozen ingredients…” “Prepare to batter and fry…” Those recipes – ubiquitous on the internets – for salmon cakes didn’t appeal to me. I wanted something simple that I could prepare in a...
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*Here’s* the Beef! Stew
Hearty beef stew. Doesn’t that sound great? [Insert gripes about winter weather here.] What’s that? You’re a vegetarian? Ah, well, try this mango and black bean stew (substitute chicken for more...
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Better-than-the-Restaurant Cashew Chicken (or Tofu!)
And it’s healthier, too! Tastier and healthier? Now that I have your attention… Homemade cashew chicken packs in vegetables like onions and sweet peppers with lean chicken or tofu and a handful or so...
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Cold Soba Noodles with Salmon, Kale & Avocado
Cold noodles make me think of pasta salad. And just the idea of pasta salad makes me think, “Ick.” Why? I’m not sure, but I think I’ve been wandering around looking for a good cold noodle salad in all...
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Jam with Every Food Fits at the D.C. State Fair!
Greetings friends! You know how much I love to make jam, right? It makes a wonderful gift to give anytime of year. BONUS: I haven’t purchased jam/jelly/marmalade/etc. in years. Literally. The good...
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Chilled Sesame Soy Soba Salad
Scrumptious! All right. Enough with the alliteration. Let’s get down to business. This recipe was inspired by one of my favorite chefs, Mykl Wu. He alerted me to furikake, which was initially created...
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Fruity Nutty Snack Bites
Stymied when trying to find a quick, easy, plentiful, healthy grab-and-go snack? Be stymied no more! This non-recipe recipe is modified from a Bon Appetit magazine tutorial I’d clipped years ago and...
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*SAVE THE DATE!* July 21 is Family Fun Day at Arlington Mill!
Hey hey, Arlington, VA! Visit your local farmers market for fresh, local produce and fresh nutrition info, too. Virginia Cooperative Extension (VCE) will host a FREE Family Fun Day at Arlington Mill...
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Mini Soufflés with Roasted Vegetables
Remember that time you made too many roasted vegetables and didn’t know what to do with the leftovers the next day (and day after that)? While my Thanksgiving guests went to town on my roasted...
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Rainbow Tacos with Cilantro Lime Salsa
“Eat a rainbow!” and “make half your plate fruits and vegetables!” is great advice, though many of us struggle with putting these slogans into practice. Next week we enter March, and (nerds like me)...
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Perfect Scrambled Eggs – for Imperfect Times
Hello, friends! First, I’d like to say: wash your hands! And please, regarding food (and general) safety during this pandemic, heed the advice of the CDC and Cooperative Extension Service experts. Long...
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