Stuffed mushrooms with goat cheese

Time to prepare: 30 min

Ingredients:

• 16 oz mushrooms
• 4oz goat cheese
• 2-3 cloves of garlic
• rosemary
• salt & pepper
• olive oil

Direction

• pre-heat oven at 400 degrees
• toss mushroom tops with rosemary and 1tbl of olive oil, add salt & pepper (I use very little s&p)
• place mushrooms opening end up on a baking sheet
• bake for 15-20min. you want the mushrooms to be brown
• in a bowl combine goat cheese, remainder of the rosemary, minced garlic
• when mushroom are ready remove from the oven
• use a paper towel and dab the extra oils from the mushrooms
• use a spoon and stuff the mushrooms

Heirloom salad

This salad is one of my summer favorites. As soon as I see some heirloom tomatoes at the store, you're bound to find this salad at my house.

Time to prepare: 10 min

Ingredients:

• 3 heirloom tomatoes
• 1 clove of elephant garlic
• 1 mozzarella ball
• basil

Directions:

• Chop up the tomatoes in half circles
• Slice the mozzarella ball thingly
• Mince the 1 clove of garlic
• Chop up the basil
• Salt&Pepper
• Add some olive oil

The Perfect Caesar

Caesar salad is one of my all time favorites. Please note, since I am all about healthy cooking, I try to avoid using croutons when I cook.

Time to prepare: 10 min
Ingredients:

• romaine lettuce
• green onion (1 bunch)
• chicken breast (or deli meat)

Dressing:

• 1 lemon
• 1/2 tsp mayo
• 2 tsp dijon mustard
• 1tbls olive oil
• salt/pepper
• 1tsp white wine vinegrate
• anchovies
• 2 cloves of minced garlic

Directions

• combine all greens
• add chicken (if you would like the meat version)
• squeeze the lemon
• in a bowl, squish the anchovies, combine olive oil/dijon/white vinegrate/mayo and mix together
• add salt/pepper/minced garlic
• mix dressing with salad

Roasted Asparagus

Time to prepare: 10min
Ingredients: Asparagus/lemon/almond oil

Directions

• Wash and chop off the bottoms of the asparagus
• Place asparagus on the grill
• As the asparagus is grilling brush over with almond oil
• Turn the asparagus and brush over again
• Salt and pepper while on the grill
• Roast asparagus for roughly 5-7min
• Once removed from grill sprinkle is fresh squeezed lemon or wine vinegrate

This is a very basic and easy recipe. It is one of my all time summer favorites.

Refresh Salad

Time to prepare: 10 min

Ingredients:

• 3 cups of cole slaw cabbage mix
• 2 tomato
• 1 bunch of green onion
• 1/2 small onion

Dressing:

• cilantro/dill
• salt/pepper
• 1 tsp sour cream
• 1 tsp mayo
• sprinkle vinegar (1tsp)
• squeeze lemon juice

Directions:

• mix all veggies in a bowl
• create dressing
• combine veggies and dressing

Spring Halibut Steak

Time to prepare: 10 min
Time to cook: 12 min

Ingredients:

• 2 halibut steaks
  
• 3 garlic cloves
  
• lemon
• salt and pepper
• dill
• 1tsp of olive oil
• oregano/thyme/ or cilantro (fresh)
  

Directions:

• wash and dry the halibut steaks
• light salt and pepper
• squeeze lemon over the fish
• add minced garlic and dill
• add oregano/thyme/or cilantro (I recommend using fresh herbs)
• cover and put in the refrigerator for about 30min
• warm up oven on broil
• place the 2 steaks on a slightly greased pan
• broil for 12min

Sautee Shrimp

Time to prepare - 10min

Ingredients:

• 1/2 pound of shrimp (roughly 16 shrimps)- please note this is the larger types of shrimps
• 1 small onion
• 1 tsp of olive oil
• lemon juice
• 2 cloves of garlic
• salt/pepper/ chives

Directions:

• clean the shrimp
• chop the onion in small thin circles
• heat the 1tsp of oil
• add onions
• add shrimps
• squeeze lemon juice (half a lemon)
• add 2 cloves of mince garlic
• add salt/pepper/chive for taste
• saute for 5 min