This Easy Tartar Sauce is one way to make your frozen fried seafood taste like you made everything from scratch. It’s a quick way to make a weeknight meal using what you already have in your fridge. Tartar sauce also tastes great on many different types of pan-fried and grilled seafood. Pre-made sauce not worth […]
When you are tired of figuring out what to cook for dinner, this Simple Seared Mahi Mahi Fillet is a nice addition to your dinner rotation. While we all love fish sticks or beer-battered fish, a pan-seared mahi mahi fillet in olive oil is tasty without tons of added fat. What makes Simple Seared Mahi
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This Bean Sprout Banchan (Korean side dish) was not something I grew up eating, but many people I know loved this side dish at Korean BBQ plate lunch joints. I was a slow starter when it comes to liking bean sprouts. After trying many different dishes with bean sprouts, I eventually came to enjoy
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There are so many Mapo Tofu recipes out there. I gravitated toward the recipe posted by @_yourbasicdad since he had a non-spicy version using black bean sauce instead of chili bean sauce. I try to cut sugar where I can, so I modified his version to omit the brown sugar. It tasted great and my
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One of my favorite things to regularly make and keep on hand is this Hawaii-Style Cabbage Banchan. Banchan (Korean side dishes) is my favorite part of a Korean BBQ plate lunch in Hawaii. Instead of a side of macaroni or potato salad in a typical Hawaii plate lunch, you get two or four choices of
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If you are longing for something different from instant oatmeal packets, try this Basic Muesli Recipe with your pantry ingredients. Breakfast can be a tricky meal because you often need something quick, but during the cold weather months, no one wants to wake up early to cook breakfast from scratch. Quick, processed breakfast options
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This Blueberry Pie Cream of Wheat tastes like a blueberry cream pie without tons of sugar. It’s creamy from the milk, has the taste of a crust from the graham cracker and nuts, and is full of sweet blueberry flavor. This breakfast is on the regular rotation during the cold winter months in my house.
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It’s finally cold enough in Hawaii to need a hot breakfast to get you going in the morning. But it’s even harder to wake up early enough to cook. This oatmeal is done in 10 minutes and includes toasted walnuts, coconut sugar, and fresh bananas. It’s a great way to still have a slightly sweet
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Kimchi Pancake (kimchi jeon) is a great comfort food that’s easy to cook at home. It’s savory, salty, spicy, tangy, and crunchy all in one bite. You can eat it by itself or with a dipping sauce. Kimchi Pancake for One can be eaten as your meal to eat with leftovers or served as banchan
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Spinach Banchan is an easy way to use up any spinach you have in your fridge that is no longer great for a salad. We’ve all had those moments of good intentions when we plan to eat a lot of spinach and buy the one-pound bag from the warehouse store because it’s so cheap. However,
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