Meatball Subs

Are you looking for an easy fifteen minutes dinner for a busy weeknight? Then this one is for you!

Frozen bag of fully cooked Italian style Turkey meatballs, a jar of tomato pasta sauce, shredded mozzarella cheese and sub rolls.

Preheat the oven on the grill option.

Sauté the meatballs with a little of olive oil to get them warm, add tomatoes sauce and simmer covered for five minutes.

Cut the sub rolls, I like to make the slit on the top that way the sauce stays in.

Add a little or a lot of mozzarella cheese to the bottom of the roll, add as much as you like of the meatballs and sauce and cover with more cheese! I added six meatballs for each and it was plenty.

Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and place the subs on it and grill for one to two minutes depending on how hot is your oven!

Enjoy!

Serves six to eight.

Thanksgiving day

Happy thanksgiving to you and your family everyone, we are thankful for all we have! Our health and family…

Let the festivities begin with delicious homemade vegetable and salami plater…. homemade bbq beef sausages…. And delicious assortment of crackers. Homemade onion and ranch dips…

Be safe everyone…

Grilled Chicken and BBQ Cabbage salad

Grilled Chicken

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Chicken is one of the easiest, fastest and healthiest protein to cook for weeknight dinners and this recipe is no exception.

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Shrimp And Scallop Scampi

Shrimp and Scallop Scampi

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Coming from a small fisherman town in Israel my family and I share the love of seafood, fresh seafood that is caught from the near ocean and sold at the open market every single day…And In particular we adore shrimps and scallops and I always make sure to have them on hand in my freezer…

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Braised Lamb

Braised Lamb

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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When it comes to Lamb there are lovers and there are haters!

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I am one of the lovers, I love lamb in every way it’s prepared… Barbecued, fried, grilled or braised and that’s how I prepared it for dinner tonight…

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Chicken With 40 Cloves of Garlic

Chicken with 40 cloves of garlic

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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I love this yummy dish!! It is full of flavors…

The garlic, the wine and the simple mix of spices all amazingly works together in this dish…

Chicken and garlic in one meal! Yes, it does not get any better than this delicious one pot wonder….And it does not require any hard work, much preparations, special ingredients or equipment’s to cook this amazing and full of flavors kind of meal… Continue reading

Pinto Beans Stew

Pinto Beans Stew

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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 You’re meatless Monday just got extra delicious with this amazing pinto beans stew.

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Broccoli Cheese Soup

Broccoli Cheese Soup

  • Servings: 6-8
  • Difficulty: easy
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 I have been on a healthy lifestyle for a year now and one of the vegetables that I could have on this diet is broccoli, it does not matter if its fresh or frozen as long as I have it with any of my meals..So I have a lot of bags of broccoli in my freezer..

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Butternut Squash soup

Butternut Squash Soup

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Butternut squash soup is one of my favorite soups, flavorful, healthy and delicious… I love to serve this soup as a healthy meal for a light lunch or dinner when it’s cold outside.

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Spinach Pasta

Spinach Pasta

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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When I made my Chicken with Pesto dish I had to make some kind of pasta dish to complement it.

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I wanted a light sauce but full of amazing flavors and easy to eat….Pasta is such a perfect partner to a chicken dish no matter how its cooked… Continue reading

Chicken with Pesto

Chicken With Pesto

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Few days ago I made a batch of my  Pesto sauce and I had about a cup of leftover that I needed to use…

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Basil is one of the herbs that has a short life and it does not last that long in the fridge, but for sure it will last for a long time in freezer when its made in to pesto… Continue reading

Coleslaw

Coleslaw

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Few days ago I made my Pulled Beef and Barbeque beans  and of course I had to make coleslaw to serve with both dishes for dinner, what better dish to serve with these two delicious hearty dishes than a cool, crunchy and creamy coleslaw!!

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Green fava beans

Green Fava Beans

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Green fava beans also known as Broad beans, or bell beans or whatever they are called I call them delicious and healthy food..

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Barbeque beans

Barbeque Beans

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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Few days ago I made my Pulled Beef , a dish that I had cooking in my slow cooker doing the day while I was working… And I had too for sure to pair it with BBQ beans,  because what else goes with this amazing dish beside BBQ beans and creamy coleslaw!

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Pulled Beef

Pulled Beef

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Most people love pulled pork but we do not eat pork so I made up this delicious barbeque pulled beef… DO YOU SMELL IT!!!


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Stuffed Peppers

Stuffed Peppers

  • Servings: 2-4
  • Difficulty: easy
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I had three poblano peppers and two orange bell peppers left in my produce drawer after I made my Eggplant and Bell pepper dip the other day…

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Eggplant and Bell pepper dip

Eggplant and Bell pepper dip

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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I had to clean up my produce drawer and use up some of the vegetable that were in there…I had two eggplants and colorful bell peppers. I also had poblano and anaheim pepper that I had to use before they expire…

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Turkey Breast

Turkey Breast

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Few days ago I was in the thanksgiving mood so I cooked this delicious thanksgiving meal, well not quite the entire bird or the cranberry sauce or pies, well you get the picture…

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Grilled Steak

Grilled Steak

  • Servings: 3
  • Difficulty: easy
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When its cold and 20 miles an hour winds outside and you cannot use your grill but you want to have a juicy steak for dinner, what to do? I found the simple way to achieve that  prefect, Smokey, delicious, juicy and flavorful steak is to have it prepare in sauté pan on the stovetop…Just a little butter or olive oil, room temperature meat and any of your favorite combination of spices and you have an easy meal on your hands in no time.

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Sirloin steak stew

Sirloin Steak stew

  • Servings: 2
  • Difficulty: easy
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Stew is one of the easiest dishes to prepare when using the slow cooker, any dish is easy to prepare and cook in it for that matter!

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Chicken Tikka Masala

Chicken Tikka Masala

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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There is no doubt that Indian cuisine is one of the flavorful and aromatic food out there, I love Indian food as much as I love middle eastern food…I enjoy cooking Indian food and I really love it when the delicious aroma fills up my kitchen, the spices, the texture and the flavor are amazing.

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Chicken Quiche

Chicken Quiche

  • Servings: 4-6
  • Difficulty: easy
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It was cold and crazy windy outside today and this is the best kind of days for me to bake and tests recipes, oven on for a long time and that’s for sure will keep the house warm. Also it was clean the fridge from leftovers kind of day…

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Super bowl party

We are having our humble super bowl party for four this year!

Made lots of delicious Tex-Mex small bits….

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Grilled Vegetables

Grilled Vegetables

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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These panini press you have hiding in your kitchen cabinets are not just for making a panini sandwiches, they are an amazing tool to use as a grill, last night I used it to grill vegetables and I often use it to grill steaks or chicken.

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Spaghetti Squash

Spaghetti Squash

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Recently I became a big fan of Spaghetti squash, its a healthy alternative to regular pasta.

I was really skeptical about it and about how would it taste with pasta sauce, and I always wondered what was the rave about it….but I became a believer once I had a taste of it.

Trying to have a healthy lifestyle made me try and experiment with food that I never thought of eating, but I been feeling good about choosing the healthier food for me and my family…

The first time I tried spaghetti squash was the frozen kind that I bought at the grocery store but I thought to my self it would taste a whole lot better if I make it at home and thats when I became a big fan of this delicious healthy food !

This is how I made them

Preheat oven to 440

2 large spaghetti squash

Healthy cooking spray

1/4 tsp sea salt

1/4 tsp black pepper

Wash and dry the squash.

Line a cookie sheet with aluminum paper (easy clean up), spray with cooking spray and set aside.

Cut the washed spaghetti squash in half, scope out the seeds and discard.

Spray the squash with cooking spray and sprinkle the top with salt and pepper.

Bake face down for 40-55 minuets..

Turn face up and bake for additional 10 minuets, I like them to have a chard top it adds smoky taste to the dish!

After baking let it cool for 15-20 minuets.

With a fork scrap out the inside of the squash to a bowl and you will have a delicious spaghetti ready to devour…

I packed the squash in small freezer bags to keep on hand when I need it, cheaper and healthier than the store bought version!

Enjoy!

How to cook Spaghetti Squash

How to cook Spaghetti Squash

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Recently I became a big fan of Spaghetti squash, its a healthy alternative to regular pasta.

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Chicken Soup

Chicken Soup

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Tonight I made a delicious, flavorful and healthy chicken soup for dinner, this recipe is perfect for everyone especially if you are on a healthy lifestyle journey!

 

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Fiesta chicken

Fiesta Chicken

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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We are the kind of people that could eat chicken every night and tonight was a no exception it was a slow cooker fiesta chicken night!

I called it fiesta chicken because of the the mix of the spices i used, this mix of spices added the most delicious mild spiced flavor!

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