How to roast easy-to-find and inexpensive Roma tomatoes in the oven, using time and temperature to turn so-so supermarket plum tomatoes into something truly special. Finally, we can roast tomatoes all year long! PS For anyone with a glut of late-summer Roma tomatoes from the garden or farmers market? This is your best tomato-roasting technique too! Real Food, Fresh & Family-Tested. Year-Round Kitchen Staple. Budget Friendly. Great for Meal Prep. Easy DIY. Low Carb. Low Fat. Weight Watchers Friendly. Not just vegan, Vegan Done Real . Naturally Gluten Free. Whole30 Friendly. Rave Reviews.

Isn't that rice so pretty?! It's a simple summer vegan side dish, just home-cooked rice with a twist. All the credit for that beautiful rich red color goes to juicy summer tomatoes and a North African spice blend called "ras el hanout". (If you have some, great. If not, it's easy to mix with spices you may well already have and if you don't, well, chili powder works really well too.) Even more, this savory rice is almost a loaves 'n' fishes story, rice that blossoms from one cup to six cups, thanks to an intriguing cooking technique – but again, don't worry, it's super-easy and needs no special equipment! An Easy, Healthy Side Dish. Whole Food, Simply Prepared with North African / Moroccan Spices. Real Food, Fresh & Inventive. Beautiful Color! Hearty & Filling. A Summer Classic for Juneteenth Occasions and During Tomato Harvest. Not just easy, Summer Easy . Budget Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Great for Meal Prep. Po...

A "real" garden salad, made with fresh summer vegetables straight from the garden, crisp barely cooked green beans, ripe tomato, sweet corn kernels, all tossed in a tangy feta salad dressing. Fresh & Summery. Great Crunch. Low Carb. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free.

Let’s talk tacos, the slow cooker kind — the kind that makes your kitchen smell like you’ve been cooking all day (because, well, you sort of have). These shredded beef tacos are rich, deeply spiced and wildly tender, thanks to a hands-off braise that does all the heavy lifting. The beef practically begs to be tucked into warm tortillas with sautéed vegetables and black beans plus your favorite taco toppings. It’s weeknight-friendly, weekend-worthy. Around here, it’s slow cooker meal prep that's earned a permanent spot in the recipe rotation. Memorable Homestyle Whole Food, Simply Prepared. Little Effort, Big Reward. A Long-Time Family Favorite & Year-Round Kitchen Staple. Budget Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. A New Addition to Slow Cooker & Oven Slow-Cooking Recipes for either a traditional slow cooker or the oven (my favorite). Great for Meal Prep. Potluck & Party & Kid Friendly. Low Carb. Low Fat. High Protein. What're you waiting for?! So Good...

An oh-so-easy but seductive zucchini salad, made slightly sexy with the spiral zucchini noodles which are taking the world by storm as a low-carb, whole-food pasta-like but grain-free noodle. Real Food, Fresh & Seasonal. Another Easy Summer Vegetable Salad. Budget Friendly. Low Carb. Weight Watchers Friendly. Naturally Gluten Free. Paleo. Not Just Vegan, Vegan Done Real . Did I Mention Irresistible?!

The Recipe: A real seasonal treat, a skillet of warm corn bread studded with fresh blueberries. It's what summer is all about ... For some years now, I've tossed fresh blueberries into summer skillets of corn bread. That wet "mouth pop" as the berries burst? Like fireworks for food. And I always intended to take the corn bread to a new place, slightly richer (more butter, naturally) and slightly sweeter (with honey, perhaps?) and definitely more corn-y (would fresh corn kernels mess up the texture?) – yeah, I obsess over think about such culinary conundrums. (Conundra? Two semesters of university Latin fails me ... ) I told myself that after I found that new and certainly "happy" corn-bread place, then, then, really, I'd share the idea here: it's way too good to keep for myself. But in the mean time, never once did the addition of fresh blueberries ruin a good corn bread. And then I came across a 2008 recipe from Canadian Living and if a...

How to stuff deviled eggs Estonian-style with mashed egg yolks plus a secret ingredient that makes for an ultra-smooth, ultra-creamy filling: a touch of soft butter. Real Food, Fresh & Flexible. Budget-Friendly. Weeknight Easy, Weekend Special. Weight Watchers Friendly. Low Carb. Naturally Gluten Free.

Ever struggle with ragged edges on sliced tomatoes? For anyone who loves summer's best ripe tomatoes, consider investing in a tomato knife, a short, sharp serrated knife that cuts tomatoes into clean, sharp slices. But if you're like me, a tomato knife will soon become an essential knife, so handy for its size and sharpness, not just for tomatoes but dozens of other kitchen tasks. ~ Skip Straight to the Tip ~ This is the latest in an occasional series of posts I call "One Quick Tip" ... because, well, each one includes just a single quick tip, quick to absorb, easy to adopt, memorable to use. Do you have One Quick Tip you'd like to share? Leave a comment or send me a quick e-mail via recipes@kitchen-parade.com . This time, I'd love to hear about an inexpensive kitchen tool that you find indispensable, one that really makes life easier, one that's worth keeping around ev...