Recipe

This simple pasta dish incorporates the light flavors of summer vegetables into a traditionally rich dish. The sauce is similar to a succotash – but it removes the corn and substitutes the commonly used lima bean for protein-rich black beans, a favorite substitute for...

By Lanier Norville A simple google search for “chia recipe” yields myriad results, from sweets to pasta to salads. Runners add a scoop of seeds to their water bottles for extra hydration – they absorb up to eight times their weight in water. Chefs take advantage of...

By Lanier Norville This quick bread recipe is adapted from a Cooking Light favorite of mine that I’ve lightened even further by substituting whole-wheat flour and using applesauce in place of oil. Both are tricks my older, healthier sister taught me when we were...

Roasted vegetables are my go-to dish during the colder months. For many years, steaming, braising, sautéing or boiling were the way I would prepare most vegetables. When I discovered the delicious advantages of roasting vegetables, I experimented with many types....

What is it about creamy dips that makes even the most composed among us lose all sense of control? Leave me alone in a room with a bowl of my girlfriend’s homemade creamy spinach dip and a loaf of bread – just 10 minutes. That’s all I need to polish the whole thing...

I’m a huge casserole fan. In my early “casseroling” days, I would just toss together ingredients that I thought would taste good together in a 9-by13 inch pan and bake them. It was easy, and the results usually tasted good, but there were always some minor...