Herbs | leanKitchen

Jul 27th 10

FLOURLESS pizza crusts made with a secret ingredient- ZUKES and SQUASH; fresh from my garden. Don’t tell your kids! It’ll be OUR little SECRET (they’ll never be able to tell!)!

Pesto Pizza Party Bites

So, remember the other day when I had too much time and too much zucchini, and I ended up making muffins? Well, I had another one of those “episodes” tonight, and ended up making these: Yum, right!? So first, I pre-heated the oven to 375, and made the Rosemary Chive Flourless Pizza Dough. Rosemary Chive Flourless Pizza Dough: 2-1/2 cups of shredded summer squash and zucchini (mixed,...

Jun 28th 10

lK scores a 4 for 4 on this one; beautiful, tasty, healthful, and kid-approved. Nice!

Peach Mint Salad

Part of why I love summertime so much, is the CONSTANT variety. Right now, in my garden, arugula is running rampant! I harvested some of that, some fresh dill, chives, sage, rosemary, and another green and red leafy head of lettuce. Once I’d brought them inside, I rinsed well (to get the dirt and bugs out), and let that sit on a paper towel with another on top, weighed down with a bowl,...

Apr 27th 10

Jazzed up, fresh, but store-bought fruit salad drizzled with fresh lime juice and mint

Jazzed up fruit salad

The other day I had zero time to get ready for a meeting that I’d promised refreshments at. Given that I am “Miss leanKitchen” herself, people come expecting a treat! Alas, Miss leanKitchen stretches herself too thin sometimes, too, so I had to cut a few corners. So I called my local supermarket, and ordered a fresh fruit salad. TIP: Ask for specific fruit. That way, you...

Apr 26th 10

Cheesy Garlic Smashed Fauxtatoes, perfect compliment to steak

Yellow Garlic Smashed Fauxtatoes

These are a SUPER simple, super speedy compliment to any meat dish; particularly steak (like my Peppered Steak with Portobello’s, or this Garlic Butter Steak and Shrimp). First, rinse a head of cauliflower (I used this nice yellow head that I found at my Supermarket), and cut it up into large chunks, with three whole peeled cloves of garlic (here’s a tip on how to peel them easily). Cauliflower Put...

Apr 7th 10

Super Speedy Caprese

Quick Caprese

Traditional Caprese is slices of tomatoes, and fresh mozzarella, served with basil and olive oil. Some twist it by putting balsamic on as well. The other night, I saw some fresh basil that looked great on sale, so I picked some up. The tomatoes, however, were looking sub-par, so I twisted it up a bit. Here’s what I did. First, I took the basil, and did my favorite herb-trick; I refer...

Mar 16th 10

Enjoy my super-speedy sundried tomato and basil pesto atop spagetti squash with shrimp, chicken or any other protein. YUM!

Sunny Sundried Tomato Pesto

In celebration of our sunny weather, I made some sunshine tomato pesto!! ……Alright, that was a lie. Really, this recipe was a fluke, but a wonderful one! See what happened was, last night when making dinner, I thought I had a MUCH bigger container of basil than I really did. I realized when I was cleaning my basil that I didn’t, in fact, have anywhere near enough. So, I pulled...

Mar 10th 10

A fresh way to drink water

H20 2.0

I don’t know about you, but previous to my supportive nutrition crusade, I was a minimal-to-none water drinker. My thoughts were I got plenty in my coffee. Yeah, yeah, I know. Could be worse, I suppose-it could be soda (I have never liked that) But I just don’t LIKE water. It doesn’t taste good, and it’s so BORING! But when Ben suggested I drink 1/2 my body weight...

Mar 7th 10

The cool flavor of cucumber mixes with sharp red onion and tangy fresh pineapple bringing this muted down, but incredibly flavorful version of salsa.

Pineapple Cucumber Salsa

This recipe so simple, but so unbelievable! I just diced 1/2 a burpless cucumber (a good-sized one), 1/4 red onion, diced small, just over 1/2 of a fresh pineapple, diced small, juice from half a lime, some fresh parsley snipped, and fresh ground black pepper and sea salt to taste. Mix together and enjoy! Pineapple Cucumber Salsa This is so incredibly delicious!!! Looks beautiful, doesn’t...

Feb 11th 10

Apple Stuffed Butternut Squash-perfect paired to poultry dishes!

Apple Stuffed Butternut Squash

I had a wonderful garden this summer, and it harvested some fantastic Butternut Squashes that I’m still blessed to have for my winter enjoyment. I like to simply cut mine in half, remove the seeds (Did you know you can also roast these like you do with pumpkin seeds?) rub with olive oil, top with some herbs (this was Mrs. Dash, an all-purpose and salt-free seasoning blend), and bake (cut...

Feb 7th 10

Herbed cheese balls for the Superbowl party

Supportive Superbowl Snacks

According to Gallup and his polls, a majority of us will be watching the big game tomorrow-Superbowl XLIV. And, I’m one of ‘em! The party that I’m going to is the “bring an appetizer to share” type, so here’s what I’m bringing: Herbed Supportive Cheese balls I LOVE cheese balls. My Mom used to always serve Port wine cheese balls in nuts (the store...