Real ingredients the paleo way… a touch of healthy olive oil… lime juice… and the powder of a chipotle pepper. (You can buy the powder or pop a pepper in your coffee grinder to make your own powder, as we do.) We like the oven for this one, set super high at first, then very low, to make […]
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Chris Prosperi’s Red Pepper Walnut Spread Grilled Bread Topping
Putting a mouth-watering combination of things on top of bread, drizzled with olive oil and grilled golden brown, is as easy as it is delicious. On each of our grilled “rafts” we give you two or three ingredients that are terrific together as apps, or you can put out a platter of several types as […]
Mini Grilled “Salad” Pizza
Let’s start by saying you don’t have to make the streamlined pizza dough we describe here; you can buy pizza dough, guilt-free, at your local pizza shop, bakery, or at the supermarket. But if you want to make the dough yourself, Suzie Middleton has a very good recipe meant for weeknight grilling. The best part […]
Fast and Easy Weeknight Dinners: Faith’s Greek Shrimp Couscous, Feta, Olives, and Lemon
What we all need for weeknight dinner is something easy and good—it’s that simple. How about pecan-crusted fish fillet? Or one of my all-time favorite Mediterranean pasta dishes, Greek Shrimp Couscous, Feta, Olives & Lemon. And for dessert—the summer crowd-pleaser for grownups and children—the Great Grape Freeze. You get the idea. This is where I […]
Faith’s Go-To Grilled Chicken Chive Burger
A decade ago we noticed a chicken and chive burger in The New York Times. On the prowl for a great alternative to beef, Faith clipped it out and started making this mouth-watering item every summer, as did her friends who asked for the recipe. Then New York’s Shake Shack began doing a chicken chive […]
Faith’s Grilled Indian Veggie Burgers
Our problem with veggie burgers is the lack of powerful flavor and texture, so Chris and I issued ourselves a challenge — to come up with the best-tasting version we could. While Chris made an outstanding burger, we all decided we missed the “chew factor.” That’s where the Indian burger surged ahead. (Crazy because Chris […]
