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Homemade Parmesan Salad Dressing

February 21, 2017 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

I just love making homemade salad dressings, don’t you?

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Filed Under: Side Dish, Vegetables Tagged With: creamy, delicious, different, dressing, easy, entertaining, healthy, homemade, Italian, mm-good, mmgood, parmesan, recipe, recipes, salad, salsa, topping, unique, yum, zesty

Creamy Chicken with Mushrooms

September 20, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

creamy-chicken-mushrooms

If you are looking for a recipe to knock the socks off of your guests, my chicken with mushrooms, shallots and Boursin cheese will become your new best friend!

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Filed Under: Chicken, Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Main Meals Tagged With: catering, chicken, cream, different, easy, entertaining, healthy, mm-good, mmgood, mushroom, Mushrooms, one pot, recipe, recipes, sauce, summer, unique, yum

Zesty and Creamy Italian Salad Dressing

September 15, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

salad-dressing

A staple homemade salad dressing is must in your home!  Today I was experimenting with the idea of a creamy Italian salad dressing and wow’d my socks off with this recipe.

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Filed Under: Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Italian, Side Dish, Vegetables Tagged With: creamy, delicious, different, dressing, easy, entertaining, healthy, homemade, Italian, mm-good, mmgood, recipe, recipes, salad, salsa, topping, unique, yum, zesty

Homemade Zesty Lemon Salad Dressing

June 9, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Zesty Lemon Dressing

I love making homemade salad dressing, yes from scratch!  My mom always made a homemade salad dressing and never knew how good she was at making them, as a great salad dressing will compliment the greens…and it makes all the difference.  One of my all most views posts is my Homemade Creamy Tarragon Dressing  which is a little heavier but definitely one to keep in your recipe box, I also have my Mock Pesto Dressing that everyone loves this time of year!

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Filed Under: Easy Entertaining, Side Dish, Vegetables Tagged With: basil, delicious, different, dressing, easy, entertaining, healthy, homemade, lemon, mm-good, mmgood, parsley, recipe, recipes, salad, topping, unique, yum, zesty

Easy Spicy Chicken in a Crock-pot

June 7, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Chicken Salad

I love these recipes using a crock pot…basically I can dump everything in the pot and come home to an easy and amazing dinner.  This recipe for spicy chicken in the crock-pot is so delicious and diversified as you can make the chicken and eat it in tacos, on a salad (like my photo), as nachos or even just on its own.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Main Meals Tagged With: catering, chicken, crock-pot, crockpot, different, easy, entertaining, healthy, mexican, mm-good, mmgood, nacho, one pot, recipe, recipes, salad, spicy, summer, unique, yum

Baja Chicken…A Healthy Alternative

May 24, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Baja Chicken MmGood

I love my sister, she has always been there for me, all my life and I don’t know what I would do without her.  She’s also an amazing cook, who shares her favorite recipes with me, including this recipe for baja chicken.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Main Meals, Mexican Tagged With: baja, bbq, catering, chicken, different, easy, entertaining, healthy, mexican, mm-good, mmgood, one pot, recipe, recipes, summer, unique, yum

One Pot Chicken with Artichoke and Fettuccine

January 7, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Chicken wArtichokes

What a treat for you all…recently I was looking through old recipes and stumbled upon an oldie but a goodie, one pot chicken with artichokes and fettuccine.  I was given this recipe over 20 years ago, when I lived in Portland, Oregon and I made this chicken dish all the time, especially when I was entertaining.

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Filed Under: Chicken, Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Italian, Main Meals Tagged With: artichokes, catering, chicken, different, easy, entertaining, holiday, Italian, mm-good, mmgood, mushroom, Mushrooms, one pot, picatta, recipe, recipes, summer, unique, yum

Holiday Cranberry Punch…a Drink for Adults

December 14, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

cranberries

YUM, I love this recipe, cranberry punch for adults!  Look everyone knows that I was never the drink master in having my parties, my ex husband was amazing at making drinks for the adults and I made the food.  That’s why I am so excited to share this amazing drink with you as it’s super easy to make, it’s made in advance and it’s self serving (I always recommend having a self serving drink for a party so the host can enjoy the evening instead standing around and making the drinks).

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Filed Under: Beverages, Easy Entertaining Tagged With: alcohol, cocktail, cranberries, cranberry, delicious, drink, easy, entertaining, holiday, mm-good, mmgood, party, pretty, punch, recipe, recipes

Homemade Creamy Tarragon Dressing

November 17, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Creamy Tarragon

Recently my best friend Melissa asked me what my favorite homemade salad dressings were as she wanted to experiment with making homemade dressings at home versus purchasing them.  Funny thing is, I grew up with only homemade dressings, Italian dressings (although we never measured the ingredients, we only eye balled our salad dressings directly on the salad).  Because of the modern day convenience I began to purchase all my salad dressings instead of making them, what a mistake.  Thanks to Melissa (what are best friends for after all) I began to experiment and tried this homemade creamy tarragon dressing…YUM!

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Filed Under: Side Dish, Vegetables Tagged With: baked, brunch, cheese, delicious, different, dressing, easy, entertaining, homemade, mm-good, mmgood, nutless, parsley, recipe, recipes, salad, tarragon, topping, unique, yum

Mock Pesto with No Nuts

October 15, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

On my honeymoon, 20 years ago with my ex, we went to Italy as part of the honeymoon as it was really important for me to have my ex meet my grandmother.  My ex and I ended up staying there for 1 week and it was such a magical time for me as I got one on one time with my grandmother.  During that time my grandmother taught me many of her recipes, one of which was a “mock pesto dressing”.  I had never thought of making pesto any other way than the traditional way with basil, pine nuts, parmesan cheese and olive oil but my nonna taught me several different ways to make pesto and they were all delicious!

This recipe is super easy, basically all your ingredients go in a food processor, I started with parsley, garlic clove, parmesan and lemon zest

parsley with lemon

added my basil

pre mixed

turn on food processor, in a slow stream add olive oil, here is how this pesto looks in a jar

Mock Pesto

this is a great recipe for a mock pesto that does not include nuts (making it cheaper to make as well as healthier), my recipe uses the parsley with the basil which gives it a layer of flavors so the nuts are not missed.  This recipe for pesto without nuts is great for pastas, it can be used as a salad dressing if mixed with a little more oil, I use it sparingly on green beans and it’s great for any recipe that calls for pesto.  Let me know what you think of my recipe!

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Mock Pesto with No Nuts

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Parsley, Italian or regular
  • 1 lemon, zested and juiced
  • 1/2 cup Basil, fresh
  • 1 small Garlic Clove
  • 1/3 cup Parmesan Cheese
  • 1/3 - 1/2 cup Olive Oil

Directions

  1. Combine the parsley, lemon zest, garlic clove and juice of one lemon, parmesan cheese and basil to a food processor.
  2. Turn processor on and stream in olive oil (add more or less based on your preference of consistency). Place prepared pesto in refrigerator. Enjoy!
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