Summer Recipes: Shrimp and Tortellini Salad with Sauce Ravigote

Summer Seafood Salad: Shrimp and Tortellini Salad with Ravigote

What visitor to New Orleans would leave without having tried a seafood dish like a gumbo or remoulade, or any number of innovative seafood dishes prepared every night by the city’s growing number of creative restaurants? Situated on the Gulf Coast, seafood has always played a major role in New Orleans cuisine. Chef Gisele Perez, a New Orleans native who loves to showcase the delicacies of her home town, shares this favorite warm weather salad that brings together the best of New Orleans food.

Tofu Mac-n-Cheese

Tofu Mac-n-Cheese

Mac-n-Cheese made with Tofu

Moms know that kids’ lunch boxes need to be packed with yummy and interesting foods to avoid the temptation of greasy cafeteria pizza! A great way to make kids the food they love and introduce their young palates to organic and gluten-free foods is to serve them tofu. As versatile as sour cream, mayonnaise, or cream cheese, tofu adds a healthier component to many favorite recipes.

No kids can resist is a bowl of macaroni and cheese! House Foods has created the Tofu Mac’ n Cheese by adding their creamy tofu to this kid staple.

Linguine with White Bean and Olive Sauce

Creamy Linguini with White Bean and Olive Sauce

A Creamy Pasta Recipe Without the Extra Calories from Cream

Guest post from SheisDallas.com

I recently discovered a favorite new recipe! I saw it on PBS, during Sara Moultons “Weeknight Meals.” It’s a great rustic pasta dish- and it’s nice and creamy, but without cream!! Also, the ingredients are things that can be kept in your cupboard, so it’s an easy meal to make on the fly. Because sometimes it’s cold out, and you just can’t see yourself making it out of your house! The recipe is below. It’s  SOOOOOO YUMMY!!! Try it!

(The ingredients I used – Including the kind of wine we had at our wedding. Yeah, I’m romantic like that..lol. )

Linguine with White Bean, Sun-dried Tomato & Olive Sauce
Makes 4 servings
Hands-on-time: 10 minutes
Total preparation time: 20 minutes

Gluten Free Pasta Recipe: Cook Once, Eat Twice

tinkyada brown rice pasta

Easy gluten free pasta for any night of the week

I am a big fan of the cook once, eat twice philosophy. I am also learning to be completely gluten free. As a busy, working mom cooking is one of my biggest chores. The kids are going to camp right now and get picked up at 5pm. They are coming home starving after 4 hours of playing in the ocean at Surf and Kayak camp and I can’t get dinner made fast enough, and of course, I didn’t have time to get it started before I picked them up!