Recipes

Easy stuffed peppers filled with ground beef, spinach, rice, tomato sauce, and cheese. This stuffed peppers recipe makes an easy dinner. Looking for more easy ground beef dinner ideas? I think you’ll love my lasagna, classic chili, and spaghetti sauce recipes. Stuffed Peppers Recipe How to Make Stuffed Peppers Ingredients For this recipe, you’ll need a few…

If you’re wondering if you missed week 2 of 52, no, you didn’t. I just didn’t buy anything and we more or less ate the same foods we always do last week so I didn’t bother to write up my normal weekly post.  And anyway, I hopped on a plane last monday for the UK so this week is a little different too.   Normally when I go on vacation I don’t worry about tracking my spending since I’m on vacation mode and I’m not typically buying much in the way of groceries, but this past week was a little...

This Greek Mizuna Salad with Sumac Spice Vinaigrette celebrates the sunny Mediterranean flavors of fragrant sumac spice, olives, pistachios, lemons, cucumbers, peppers, and tomatoes. In fact, it’s a twist on a classic Greek salad, relying upon the delicious, wonderful, lacy salad green—mizuna. Super easy to make, this vegan, gluten-free mizuna salad recipe is packed with nutrition and delicious taste. I love to serve it as a side to recipes like lentil soup and vegan meatballs. Mizuna at farmers market What is Mizuna? Mizuna (also called Japanese mustard) is a leafy green classified as Brassica juncea, a leafy green in the...

This Crockpot Lasagna recipe tastes so incredible with layers of homemade sauce, tons of melty cheese and two kinds of meat. It is literally the BEST lasagna recipe I have tried and I love that I can make it in my slow cooker! I have easy step-by-step directions for you with photos, however you can scroll right down to the recipe, if you prefer! How to Make Crockpot Lasagna with Homemade Sauce You will need a lot of ingredients for this one, as the sauce is homemade, but it’s nothing too complicated! I KNOW it might seem daunting to make...

With more Italian restaurants in New Jersey than any other type of cuisine, it’s nearly impossible to create a definitive list of the best. But our restaurant critics, led by dining editor Eric Levin, were up to the task, fanning out across the state to visit restaurants, meet chefs and, of course, indulge in great food. Below, you’ll find the 28 restaurants that our critics feel best represent Italian dining in New Jersey. Some are old favorites, others are new to the culinary scene; some only serve the classics, others offer twists. Our critics love them—and we think you will,...