The BEST Veggie Lasagna Recipe

We’ve all had bad banquet food. In my experience, it involves a choice of overcooked chicken or bad vegetable lasagna. The lasagna is mushy and overcooked. And unlike it’s meatier cousins like Greek lasagna, it’s usually runny and watery.

One of the few banquets I’ve been to that has had great food? My culinary school graduation, of course. My instructors knew what they were doing when it came to banquets. Not only did they offer up lamb lollipops and the best vegetarian quiche, but they knew that vegetable lasagna can be great if it’s made well.

And it turns out that making it well involves a secret ingredient. An ordinary item you can find at any grocery store, but it has a magical purpose when it comes to veggie lasagna.

Read on to find out what this item is, and why it guarantees that you’ll soon be enjoying the most flavorful, cheesiest, well cooked, NOT WATERY vegetable lasagna you’ve ever had.

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If you’re anything like me, you might have a hard time wanting to eat anything other than comfort food during the winter.

I mean, when I trek outside in five degree windchill to do errands, then come home, I don’t generally want a big salad for dinner.

I want creamy salmon pasta or lamb bolognese. Or a big plate of nachos. Or my mom’s slow cooker beef vegetable soup.

But I believe that there can be a balance between something really comforting and something super fresh and healthy.

This almond crusted chicken with couscous, grapefruit and arugula is one of my favorite winter meals. And just like my chicken sloppy joes and Instant Pot sweet and sour chicken, it’s a healthy meal masquerading as comfort food.

See below for all the details. And if you’d rather use pistachios instead of almonds, please see my pistachio crusted chicken post.

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When it comes to clean-out-the-fridge meals, usually, that’s my husband’s territory. His calling in life is opening up the fridge and all the cabinets, finding a handful of the most random odds and ends, and turning it into a meal so terrific that nobody would know he didn’t plan it.

Me? I usually like to have a solid meal plan for the week, with my dinner ideas all mapped out in advance. But sometimes, like when you really ARE trying to clean out the fridge before a vacation, you gotta do what you gotta do. These Summer Salmon Bowls were my very own clean-out-the-fridge creation, and the results were delicious.

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Home cooks across Michigan love the great apples available in our state, perfect for cooking or eating on their own. Today, I’m guest posting for the Michigan Apples blog, sharing a recipe featuring Fuji apples.

Summer might be half over, but there’s no end in sight for the dinners I want to make on the grill. I’ve been known to grill (at least occasionally) all year ’round, because you just can’t match the flavor of food prepared on the grill with any other technique.

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I’m definitely a believer that the simplest summer dinners are the best ones. The produce this time of year is great, everything tastes better when it’s cooked on the grill, and there’s just no need for complicated comfort food. Plus, easy meals mean less time cooking and doing dishes, and more time after dinner for active pursuits like bike rides, dog walks and badminton in the backyard. You’ll never sleep better at night then after a healthy meal and an evening spent enjoying the beautiful outdoors.

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Recipe: Giada De Laurentiis’ Couscous-Stuffed Peppers with Basil Sauce (click to be taken to the full recipe)

Background: Look, I admit that Giada can be a bit annoying. That random Italian accent that comes out only when it wants to. The twiggy body that is evidence she doesn’t eat much of the food she cooks for her television shows. But you know what? Most of her recipes are really great. I even have one of her cookbooks. I saw her cook these stuffed peppers one Sunday morning, and I immediately went to the grocery store to get all of the fixings so I could make it for dinner that night. I’ve made it countless times since then, and passed the recipe on to my parents, who also love it.

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