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A quick, easy, and delicious meal that can be grilled indoors!! This meal can be ready in almost no time – which is good, because you can be sure that your family will be asking for this meal over and over again. It can be served over a simple mixed green salad, or [...]

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I figured that I need to make a nice seafood dinner before the cold weather gets here and the price of fresh seafood skyrockets in my area!! Crab and pasta is a classic, delicious combination – although it is used served in a heavy and rich cream sauce. I decided to keep the “classic combo”, [...]

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Cioppino is a fish stew derived from the various fish soups of Italian cuisine. Typically it consists of a combination of clams, shrimp, scallops, mussels and white fish with fresh tomatoes in a wine sauce, often served “as is” (as a stew), or over spaghetti or other long pasta (then, usually called “zuppa de pesce”). [...]

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This light and refreshing meal has a wonderful combination of flavors. Although the fish needs to marinate for about a half an hour, once it is done marinating, it all comes together very quickly. I love to make this meal for dinner guests and special occasions (you know, for those times when you [...]

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Okay, so you are probably thinking that I must have lost my mind posting a recipe for chowder when it is 100 degrees outside! But this chowder has a light, delicate, summery flavor – and when you serve it just slightly warmer than room temperature with a nice cold, crisp green salad and fresh [...]

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Caesar salad has become vastly popular over the past few years, and I am amoung it’s many fans; I am not, however, a fan of it’s nutritional statistics! The dressing that normally adorns this salad packs a huge calorie count – and it doesn’t help that if it is ordered while at a restaurant, [...]

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I like to serve these crab cakes as a main course with a corn and tomato salsa on the side. They are always a huge hit with dinner guests and because of the intense flavor of the salsa, you can skip the fatty tartar sauce that normally accompanies seafood dishes. If I’m [...]

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Here is another quick and easy summer dinner idea! We all know that we should be eating more healthy fats – especially the Omega fatty acids found in fish. Salmon fillets pair beautifully with asian inspired flavors and lend to this dish a clean, satisfying, summery taste. Paired with green beans [...]

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This dish is somewhat of a “short-cut” version of traditional fra diavlo. It comes together really quickly, so it makes a great choice for a weeknight meal. You can vary the amount of heat in this meal by increasing or decreasing the amount of hot pepper to suit your taste. Paired with [...]

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Halibut is a firm whitefish that has a nice mild flavor. It is another light, yet satisfying meal for a warm summer evening. This dish is very low in fat and high in protein, and it will only take 30 minutes from the time you pull the fish out of the fridge, until [...]

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