One of my favorite simple suppers, one that's light and easy and healthy too. It's quick enough for a weeknight supper but also special enough for company. Weight Watchers, you'll love this simple fish, just a few points for something that tastes rich and satisfying. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ BEST RECIPES! Fish with Herb Butter Made the List! Best Recipes of 2004 Lightening Up? Feeling heavy and slow from food-centered gatherings with friends and family over the long weekend? Overeat at breakfast or lunch? FISH with HERB BUTTER just might be the cure. Quick to prepare and serve, there’s barely time to toss a salad! It's extra easy for someone who already has herbs on hand. Sooo ... hey, have you planted a few herbs yet? Keeping two or three favorites herbs in pots will keep you in herbs all summer long, all for the price of a few plants. See my post about growing herbs at home, Never Buy Fresh Herbs Again . Culinary Tools for One or

Experienced bakers know that the best bananas for baking — you know, for banana muffins, banana bread, even banana cake — are very ripe bananas. But how dark, how ripe, should we let bananas go? In a happy accident, I've discovered what I call "black bananas". They streeeettttch the ripening time by many weeks and draw out even more of that luscious banana flavor that banana lovers crave. Bakers, prepare to exercise great, great patience before baking with bananas. When Is a Ripe Banana Ripe Enough for Baking? left/top ~ A "green banana" is an "unripe" banana. It may be tinged with green but is often yellow. A green banana makes for unremarkable banana-baking. center ~ It's tempting to start baking with a banana once it starts to develop some brown spots. But patience, patience, that banana's not ready yet! right/bottom ~ A banana must be really ripe — nearly all brown and even, if you want, well into "black" — to yiel

A super-moist banana muffin, sweetened with very ripe bananas and much-reduced sugar, capped with a crispy crumb topping called "streusel," a mix of brown sugar, toasted nuts and cinnamon. A real treat for breakfast or an afternoon snack – or maybe on a Mother's Day menu? Warm Muffins, Made from Scratch with Everyday Ingredients. Fresh & Family-Tested. Big on Flavor, Lower in Sugar. Budget Friendly. Potluck & Party Friendly. Rave Reviews.

A sweet potato salad for summer, a colorful and mouth-watering blend of sweet potato, roasted poblano pepper and roasted corn. No mayonnaise so perfect for a "dish to carry" for potlucks, picnics and family dinners. ~ Skip Straight to the Recipe ~ COMPLIMENTS! "This is a keeper for summer. Thanks for the inspiration." ~ Anonymous "It is just wonderful!" ~ DLA in OKC "This is the perfect summer sweet potato recipe!" ~ Holly Add yours, leave a comment, below! A Most Important Mother ... a "Vinegar Mother" Please welcome Mario Aranda of O Olive Oil, my guide to the pleasure of fine olive oils and artisan vinegars for a couple of years now. And meet Mario’s mother, too, his "vinegar mother", that is. ~ Alanna Mario writes ... "Vinegar is essentially sour wine; even the word itself is taken from the French for Vin Aigre, sour wine. "To make vinegar, you start with wine, then trigger the a