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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Chocolate Cake S’mores

Chocolate Cake S'mores

  • Servings: 8-12
  • Difficulty: easy
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We all love s’mores but can you imagine it spread all over a sheet of a chocolate cake?
I could and I did…. I made up this delicious mash and ended up being this oeey gooey chocolaty goodness and it was to die for; and we could not get enough of it!!

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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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Third Birthday Cake

Birthday Cake

  • Servings: 15-20
  • Difficulty: easy
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 This birthday cake is one of my favorite cakes that I have ever baked, I know every cake I make is my favorite but this one is so special to me!

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Chickpea Double Chocolate Cookies

Chickpea Double Chocolate Cookies

  • Servings: 29
  • Difficulty: easy
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 Who does not li Who ke Chocolate chip cookies? Everyone loves them, kids and kids at heart love and adore them!!

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No one would turn down a good chocolate chip cookie let along these double chocolate cookies that made with few healthy ingredients…. Continue reading

Sugar Cookies-Sugar Free

Sugar Cookies

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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 Sugar cookie dough is so versatile that it could be used in most recipes that calls for cookie crusts or as a crumbled topping for any custard or ice cream dessert or just as a dunking cookie in the morning cup of coffee, afternoon tea or evening milk…

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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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Carrot Cake Cupcakes

Carrot Cake Cupcakes

  • Servings: 27
  • Difficulty: easy
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In two weeks it will be two years since I posted my carrot cake recipe! Time flies so fast when you’re having fun baking…

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Berries Pie

Berries Pie

  • Servings: 8
  • Difficulty: easy
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I always stock up on everything and berries are no exception, when I see berries on sale at the store I buy them, fresh or frozen it won’t matter to me… I fill my freezer drawer and forget about them until I envision a recipe to use them!

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Lemon Lime Cupcakes

Lemon Lime Cupcakes

  • Servings: 28
  • Difficulty: easy
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I have these cute cupcakes liners that I have so much of in my pantry that I bought few years ago…

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I used them when I baked so many muffins and cupcakes for the office for St. Patrice’s day and Last Sunday was the perfect day to put them to use… I am not sure why I bought so many of them! Even after using them with this recipe I have a lot leftover, I guess I was feeling lucky with the clover leaf… What can I say I love them! Continue reading

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

Lemon Bundt Cake

Lemon Bundt Cake

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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Every time my daughter and I say the word bundt we laugh so hard because we remember the movie “My Big Fat Greek wedding” its a bundt!!! Anyone remember that scene? it was pretty hilarious…We love that movie!!

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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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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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Apple Pie

Apple Pie

  • Servings: 8-10
  • Difficulty: easy
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Yesterday was National pie day, according to Google it was the 30th anniversary….So I made two apple pies to take with me to the office today…

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Jasmine Cupcakes

Jasmine Cupcakes

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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I love the smell and the flavor of jasmine in anything..so few months ago when I was in LA at the Asian market I bought a bottle of Jasmine essence, I did not know how or with what I was going to use it but I had to buy it, I could not help it the fragrance is deliciously intoxicating… Continue reading

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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Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

Mickey Mouse Birthday Cake

  • Servings: 10
  • Difficulty: easy
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Today we had a small birthday party for our little guy Isaiah, he is turning one on Monday but since everyone works and have school, well you know about Monday blues…. Continue reading

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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Rice treats

Rice Treats

  • Servings: 12
  • Difficulty: easy
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My granddaughter texted me few days ago and asked me if I could make her some Rice treats and of course I had to deliver….I am madly in love with her, very smart, intelligent and beautiful inside out…And I do love making treats for my kids and grandkids…

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Banana pound cake muffins

Banana pound cake muffins

  • Servings: 20
  • Difficulty: easy
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Sugar free dessert became the only way for me to bake for my husband, what to do for a man that loves sweet? It was easy for me, I started re-creating all of my baking recipes for him as sugar free dessert since we found out he is diabetic and that was many, many years ago…

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Baking cookies

After All the Banana chips cookies Banana chips cookies I made the other day were gone; (thats how delicious they were) I had to bake another batch, but this time I doubled the recipe to accommodate the demands for these delicious cookies… Continue reading

Orange Cake 

Orange Cake

  • Servings: 15-20
  • Difficulty: easy
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Freshly baked heart ❤️ all it needed is a simple cheese frosting and fresh blackberry on the top! Completely sugar free! 

I will post the recipe once its perfected!

Updated on 05/05/2018

I baked this cake in so many variations, deferent flavors, different filling and different frosting but with the same recipe base my mom gave me, with a slight adjustment to some of the ingredients to accommodate the new flavor or ingredient that I added…The cake turns out amazingly delicious every time….

Preheat oven to 375F (190 C)

1 cup fresh orang juice

1/2 cup vegetable oil

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

3 eggs at room temperature

1 tbsp. + 1/2 tsp. baking powder

1 tbsp. pure vanilla extract

1 cup of sugar substitutes

1/4 tsp. salt

1/4 tsp. baking soda

cooking spray

4 cups of sugar free cream cheese frosting

3 tbsp. grated orange zest

1/2 tsp. orange extract

1 cup fresh blackberries

Spray one heart shaped springform cake pan with cooking spray, line with parchment paper spray again and set aside.

In a bowl of a stand mixture fitted with the flat beater attachment mix oil and sugar, mix well until sugar is completely dissolved.

Add vanilla extract, mix well.

Add orange extract, mix well.

Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.

Add orange zest and mix for few seconds.

Sift flour, baking powder, salt and baking soda into separate bowl.

On low speed add flour mixture in third alternating with the orange juice, starting and ending with the dry ingredients.

Scrape down the bowl after each addition.

Mix well with a rubber spatula to insure all the dry ingredient mixed well into the batter.

Add batter into prepared pan and bake for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.

Let the cake cool in the pan for about 10 – 15 minutes.

Remove the cakes from the pan, remove the parchment papers and place onto cooling racks to cool completely.

Prepare your favorite cream cheese frosting recipe, need about 2 cups of frosting.

Cut the cake in half, add the first layer onto a cake serving platter or a cake stand, add half of cup of frosting and smooth with an offset spatula.

Add the second layer and use the rest of the frosting to frost the entire cake.

Cool in the fridge for few hours before serving.

Decorate the cake with blackberries or any of your favorite berries.

Tip: if the frosting becomes too soft while frosting place it and the cake in the fridge for about 20 minutes to chill and continue decorating the cake after.

Enjoy!

Hummus

Hummus

  • Servings: 6
  • Difficulty: easy
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Making Hummus at home is so easy and this recipe is the authentic Middle Eastern Hummus, could be served with olive oil or meat but that is another recipes.

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.1 Can 29 OZ of Garbanzo Beans

.1/2 cup good quality Tahini

.1/2 cup of warm water

.1/4 cup lemon juice

.1/2 tbsp. salt

.1/2 tsps Cumin

Drain and rinse the garbanzo beans in warm water, in food processor add beans and pulse until its course.

Add the rest of the ingredient and mix well for about a minute or two, or until completely smooth.

Add water, as you need if it is too thick. Adjust the salt and lemon to your desired test.
You could add garlic to your hummus, it is completely optional.

Pesto

Pesto

  • Servings: 4
  • Difficulty: easy
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I love making my own pesto at home, I love the taste of fresh basil especially the one I grow in my garden…

This is hardly a recipe but I wanted to share it.

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1 cup fresh Mint

2 cups fresh Basil

1/4 cup olive oil

1 Tsps. sea Salt

1 Tsps. black Pepper

1 cup of mixed toasted Pecan, Walnuts and pine nuts

1/2 cup parmesan chesses

1 tsp. Lime Juice

2 tbsp. Lemon juice

In a food processer bowl add all ingredient except the olive oil, pulse for few times to mix..with the food processer running drizzle the olive oil until all combined.

I use this pesto as a pizza base, or a salad dressing it is delicious.

 

Enjoy!