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I have a great Thanksgiving menu full of all the classic favorites - turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, pie, and more; all updated and fresh. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Classic Thanksgiving Menu

This Italian inspired summer grilling menu features a knockout grilled lamb and figs recipe and is full of easy party ideas perfect for hot summer days. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Inspired Summer Grilling Menu

This Mother's Day Lunch Menu is full of ideas for a light and elegant meal! Everything you need from a fruity cocktail to an easy dessert. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Elegant Mother’s Day Lunch Menu

This crowd pleasing Greek Easter menu has everything from spanakopita to baklava, along with great side dishes, salads, and grilled lamb in between! There's even a couple of leftover ideas. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Greek Easter Menu from Spanakopita to Baklava

Appetizers

Chilled strawberry soup is a great cold summer appetizer. It's full of ripe fruit, Greek yogurt, and just enough mint to be tangy, sweet, and refreshing.

Chilled Strawberry Yogurt Soup

Zahav's classic recipe for Israeli hummus bi tahini is the best homemade hummus you can make! It's silky, smooth, creamy, light, and addictively yummy.

Zahav’s Silky Smooth Israeli Hummus

Making crispy fried shallots is a simple and easy process! All you need are three ingredients and a little time to get them golden brown. Gluten-free. Vegan. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

How to Make Crispy Fried Shallots

Plump and juicy shrimp, soft sliced garlic, and sweet and smoky paprika combine in this classic tapas recipe for Spanish garlic shrimp. Quick and easy! Make sure you have plenty of bread to soak up the flavorful olive oil! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Spanish Garlic Shrimp with Paprika Tapas

Sauces and Condiments

Zahav's classic recipe for Israeli hummus bi tahini is the best homemade hummus you can make! It's silky, smooth, creamy, light, and addictively yummy.

Zahav’s Silky Smooth Israeli Hummus

Put down the bottled salad dressing and jazz up your salads with a fresh raspberry balsamic vinaigrette! It's simple to make. Just a few minutes and a blender and you'll have a thick, sweet and spicy dressing for salads, chicken, salmon, and more.

Fresh Raspberry Balsamic Vinaigrette

Making crispy fried shallots is a simple and easy process! All you need are three ingredients and a little time to get them golden brown. Gluten-free. Vegan. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

How to Make Crispy Fried Shallots

It's time to make a fruity summer salad dressing! Quickly puree up fresh blueberries into a spicy, sweet, and tangy blueberry vinaigrette. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Blueberry Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

Side Dishes and Salads

French country salad is an easy and healthy spring salad featuring asparagus, roasted beets, pecans and goat cheese. Inspired by the Cheesecake Factory salad and perfect for a light lunch or as fresh side at dinner.

French Country Salad with Asparagus and Roasted Beets

Freekeh is an earthy grain with a complex flavor which you should try! And this vegan freekeh salad buddha bowl with baby kale, radicchio, avocado, and mint is great way to add some freekeh to your diet.

Kale, Radicchio and Freekeh Salad Buddha Bowl

Greek orzo salad with peas, tomatoes, and feta is one of my favorite Mediterranean dishes to bring to potlucks, bbqs, and summer cookouts. It's a simple recipe, but always a hit.

Greek Orzo Salad with Feta and Peas

Looking for the best potato salad? Then you need to try my potato salad with olives and capers all tossed together with a homemade mayonnaise. Lemony, creamy, buttery, and tangy!

Potato Salad with Olives and Capers

Arugula adds brightness and a peppery flavor to this simple and healthy recipe for Italian braised white beans with garlic and tomatoes. It's a satisfying side dish for all sorts of meals, especially grilled or seared lamb chops or steak.

Braised White Beans with Garlic and Arugula

Looking for a great fall and winter side? My recipe for butternut squash and Swiss chard is quick, healthy, and full of caramelized cubes of winter squash and tender chopped chard. | justalittlebitofbacon.com #butternutsquash #sidedish #wintersquash #swisschard #healthyrecipes

Easy Sauteed Butternut Squash with Swiss Chard

Looking for a healthy and fresh winter salad? Try an Italian orange salad full of sliced cara cara oranges, bitter radicchio, and toasted pecans all tossed with a lemony honey mustard dressing. | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Orange, Radicchio, and Pecan Salad

It's easy to make creamy and lump free Italian polenta so long as you follow a few simple rules and step away from that boiling water. Eat it hot and soft right from the pot or chill it and give a fry. Either way it's great comfort food! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

How to Make Creamy Italian Polenta

Main Dishes

Make your own shawarma wraps! My recipe for homemade grilled chicken shawarma features an intensely flavorful Mediterranean marinade, quick pickled cucumbers, and a tasty yogurt garlic sauce you'll want to put on everything.

Homemade Grilled Chicken Shawarma

Charred leeks, bacon, and sweet summer corn combine together in this quick, summer comfort food recipe for orecchiette pasta with leeks and corn crema.

Orecchiette Pasta with Leeks, Pancetta, and Corn Crema

Sicilian swordfish is an easy dinner recipe perfect for a summer's evening. Just fire up the grill to cook your summer squash and then the swordfish steaks, top it all with a tangy lemon and olive oil oregano sauce and some diced tomatoes, and you have a meal!

Grilled Sicilian Swordfish with Oregano and Summer Squash

Freekeh is an earthy grain with a complex flavor which you should try! And this vegan freekeh salad buddha bowl with baby kale, radicchio, avocado, and mint is great way to add some freekeh to your diet.

Kale, Radicchio and Freekeh Salad Buddha Bowl

A simple pan searing in a cast iron pan gives my salmon with green sauce golden brown crispy skin worthy of a restaurant dinner! Add in an easy and vibrant sauce full of basil and parsley and you have a delicious and healthy weeknight meal.

Crispy Seared Salmon with Green Sauce

For a delicious and fork-tender oven braised beef brisket, cook it low and slow in red wine and onions. Then let it cool for easy slicing and puree the sauce for a thick and rich onion gravy. Great holiday roast!

Braised Beef Brisket with Rich Onion Gravy

Chicken stifado is a delicious and healthy Greek stew which cooks in 30 minutes, making it easy comfort food for a weeknight. In this stew chicken thighs are marinated in a red and herb marinade then browned and cooked together with artichokes, tomatoes, and plenty of onions. Great over orzo, mashed potatoes, or noodles.

Greek Chicken Stifado (Stew)

Grab a bottle of Burgundy or Pinot Noir because it's time to make some classic French comfort food! My recipe for slow cooker beef burgundy is wonderful to come home to after a long winter's day - tender beef, bacon, lots of onions, and carrots all in a rich red wine sauce.

Slow Cooker Beef Burgundy Stew

Beverages

For a fun variation on the classic Moscow mule, try a blood orange Moscow mule! Ginger beer, lime, and vodka are mixed with blood orange juice and pomegranate in this tasty cocktail.

Blood Orange Moscow Mule

The tropical flavors of pineapple, orange, and coconut and the rosy, sunset color of this pineapple rum punch will take you right to a Caribbean beach. You can make it by glass or in a pitcher for a crowd!

Coconut, Orange, and Pineapple Rum Punch

Sparkling rose sangria is made from rose still and sparkling wines, fortified with brandy and orange liqueur, then mixed with raspberries and winter citrus, like blood oranges and pink grapefruit. Great for romantic dinners, winter and spring parties, and valentine's day!

Romantic Sparkling Rose Sangria

Homemade hot bourbon eggnog is easy to make and will warm you right through. I think it's the perfect drink for cold and snowy days by the fire! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Homemade Hot Spiced Bourbon Eggnog

Desserts

My awesome, moist double chocolate banana bread full of dark chocolate, cocoa powder, bananas, and sour cream can be mixed up in one bowl. Easy and great for dessert or a snack anytime.

One Bowl Double Chocolate Banana Bread

Make the most of fresh spring fruit with homemade rhubarb and strawberry hand pies! These mini, individual pastries are fun to make and to eat. Can be prepared ahead and frozen or made and served immediately. Great with vanilla ice cream!

Fresh and Yummy Mini Rhubarb Strawberry Hand Pies

Want some ideas for fresh strawberry desserts? I have six amazing recipes from simple to elegant and all are packed full of sweet, juicy strawberries. Berry crumble pie, rustic strawberry tart, shortcake with a twist, easy strawberry dip and more!

Fresh Strawberry Desserts for Spring

Homemade Meyer lemon raspberry bars are great twist on classic lemon bars! Start with a simple flaky and buttery shortbread crust and then top that with a thick and rich layer of lemon and raspberry curd. Tart, amazing, and a beautiful reddish-orange color.

Meyer Lemon Raspberry Bars

In this churro inspired dessert, sour cream cinnamon bundt cake is swirled with chocolate for a moist and tender marble cake. Wonderful as is, but even better when topped with a brown butter cinnamon icing!

Churro Inspired Chocolate Cinnamon Bundt Cake

Dark chocolate panna cotta is a rich, but simple, Italian dessert made from cream, gelatin, and bittersweet chocolate. Full of intense chocolate flavor, it's great for dinner parties, Valentine's day, or any day you need chocolate.

Intense Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta

Ripe slices of pears and deep red cranberries combine with a simple custard and a dusting of cinnamon in this pear cranberry tart. Great for the holidays! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Italian Pear Cranberry Tart

The Italian pastry dough, pasta frolla, is great for pies and tarts, but it is also great for Christmas cutout cookies! We like ours decorated with chocolate and mint. So easy! | justalittlebitofbacon.com

Pasta Frolla Christmas Cutout Cookies

All Recipes

Chilled strawberry soup is a great cold summer appetizer. It's full of ripe fruit, Greek yogurt, and just enough mint to be tangy, sweet, and refreshing.

Chilled Strawberry Yogurt Soup

Make your own shawarma wraps! My recipe for homemade grilled chicken shawarma features an intensely flavorful Mediterranean marinade, quick pickled cucumbers, and a tasty yogurt garlic sauce you'll want to put on everything.

Homemade Grilled Chicken Shawarma

Zahav's classic recipe for Israeli hummus bi tahini is the best homemade hummus you can make! It's silky, smooth, creamy, light, and addictively yummy.

Zahav’s Silky Smooth Israeli Hummus

My awesome, moist double chocolate banana bread full of dark chocolate, cocoa powder, bananas, and sour cream can be mixed up in one bowl. Easy and great for dessert or a snack anytime.

One Bowl Double Chocolate Banana Bread

Charred leeks, bacon, and sweet summer corn combine together in this quick, summer comfort food recipe for orecchiette pasta with leeks and corn crema.

Orecchiette Pasta with Leeks, Pancetta, and Corn Crema

Sicilian swordfish is an easy dinner recipe perfect for a summer's evening. Just fire up the grill to cook your summer squash and then the swordfish steaks, top it all with a tangy lemon and olive oil oregano sauce and some diced tomatoes, and you have a meal!

Grilled Sicilian Swordfish with Oregano and Summer Squash

French country salad is an easy and healthy spring salad featuring asparagus, roasted beets, pecans and goat cheese. Inspired by the Cheesecake Factory salad and perfect for a light lunch or as fresh side at dinner.

French Country Salad with Asparagus and Roasted Beets

For a fun variation on the classic Moscow mule, try a blood orange Moscow mule! Ginger beer, lime, and vodka are mixed with blood orange juice and pomegranate in this tasty cocktail.

Blood Orange Moscow Mule

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Welcome to my kitchen! I’m a Italian-American girl who loves fresh foods, local ingredients, and all sorts of comfort foods. Here you will find Mediterranean flavors and recipes from a New England perspective.

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