What better springtime recipe than some fresh tasting fish and seafood like my Tilapia Shrimp Scampi? This recipe evolved from the fact that I wanted to make shrimp scampi, but didn’t have enough shrimp left to make a whole meal for 4 people. So I incorporated a few pieces of tilapia I also had on hand and voila!

This has actually become one of the most popular pages found on my main Thrown-Together-Meals.com website from search engine traffic. Seems quite a few people are actually searching for tilapia shrimp scampi! Who knew?

The recipe has traditional flavors of scampi, including lemon juice, wine, butter and garlic.  I have usually served it with steamed white or brown  rice and a steamed broccoli and zucchini mixture. But it’d also be good with angel hair pasta and asparagus, if you want it to be more spring-y.

To get this Tilapia Shrimp Scampi recipe, just click the link. You can also find other fish and seafood recipes on the main site… or share your own recipe there. Or… if you know of a great fish/seafood cookbook, tell me about it here.

I hope you enjoy this! … And feel free to “hop” on over to Recipe Lion to see other contributions to their March Spring Blog Hop, won’t you:

I have two adult daughters, both of whom live in Austin. I try to visit as often as I can. It always seems like our visits revolve around food… generally Tex Mex kind of food, because that’s what they eat, more often than not. When they first moved there, it was the design your own burritos at a place called FreeBirds. Later, it was Texas beef brisket barbecue at Rudy’s and other places. We’ve also had good Texas steak at a few different locations.

But lately, what my girls have adopted as a regular habit is what they call breakfast tacos. We have something similar here in Boise that we call breakfast burritos, but the Texas variety is definitely better! The place they go to the most makes their own tortillas and are they ever good… and fresh, of course.

So anyway, I was thrilled recently when one of my readers added a recipe for egg tacos on the site. Perfect!

This version is a bit different, but it could still form the basis of something wonderful. If you want to check it out for yourself, go to the Egg Tacos recipe page on my main site. After you get there, you may want to look at our other egg recipes or even share one of your own very special recipes. Either way, I’m happy to have you!

I love Greek yogurt and the Chobani brand is one of the best tasting. I’ve recently begun following another foodie blog, called RecipeLion… you may have seen my previous post where I participated in a Blog Hop about winter comfort soups.

Now, I’ve just found out that RecipeLion is giving away a free case of Chobani yogurt to 5 lucky winners. I’m in! I’ll take free stuff I love any day of the week.

How about you?

Here’s where you can read about the giveaway:

http://www.recipelion.com/sweeps/Chobani-Giveaway#

Good luck! Hope we both win…

Oh… and I hope to renew my pledge of a new recipe each week… it’s been a difficult last few months, personally, but I’m starting to get my life back into a rhythm… meanwhile you can always check my site’s What’s New page for updates.

This is a recipe from Kathi’s Test Kitchen, where I test various recipes from other chefs, foodie blogs, cookbooks and cooking shows. Sometimes, I change them up a bit; sometimes I make them exactly as written. Then I evaluate the recipe against a variety of rating factors. This week, I made Aarti Sequeira’s (Aarti Party) Chicken Tikka Masala, along with the cauliflower recipe from traditional Indian fare called Aloo Gobi.

I loved them! If you like Indian food, you’re going to love how accessible and easy Aarti makes it. I’ve tried quite a few of her recipes, but this is one of my favorites so far. I think I could eat it every day.

I didn’t have as great luck making Aarti’s Simple Basmati Rice recipe, but that may have been because I substituted brown Basmati rice for the regular white variety. Brown rice doesn’t have quite the same consistency. I happen to like it better, but that’s just me.

The chicken though, along with the cauliflower side dish, were so scrumptious.

To read my whole review, visit this Chicken Tikka Masala page on my main site.

With this week’s recipe, I paired flank steak with whole wheat orzo and asparagus and gave them all an Asian spice treatment. It wasn’t one of my greatest successes ever, but hubby seemed to like it.

I paired my flank steak with a marinade I found at one of my favorite recipes sites, AllRecipes.com. I should have let the flavor develop a little longer by  marinating the steak overnight, but never one to plan… I waited too long for that. I gave it about an hour, which is probably why it didn’t turn out as great as all the reviews led me to believe it would.

If you’d like to view my Asian flank steak recipe, click here. Or, you can also view other beef recipes, more Chinese recipes or even share your own favorite flank steak recipe with me. It’s all good…

There is nothing like soup on a cold winter night… so I recently created this hearty and healthy soup made with turkey kielbasa, garbanzo beans and lots of other healthy ingredients.

I made this soup in my slow cooker, but you could just as easily make it in a large kettle on top of your stove. Just be sure you simmer it for an hour or so to develop the flavors completely. It’s a great way to use up older veggies that won’t last much longer too!

This kielbasa bean soup would be great served with some crusty French bread or even cheese quesadillas.

To view the complete recipe, visit our main Thrown-Together-Meals.com website and explore our Kielbasa Bean Soup page. If you like that recipe, you might also want to take a look at our other soup recipes, sausage recipes or even contribute one of your own recipes. I love to see what other people cook too!

I hope you enjoy this one as much as hubby and I did…

Our easy hamburger goulash recipe is a super healthy recipe made with plenty of vegetables and big flavor.

I grew up during the 1960s on casseroles. They’re a great way to stretch your dollar and also make a delicious meal. To this day, I still love a good casserole. Talk about hearty! My mom’s standard goulash recipe incorporated macaroni, ground meat and tomatoes.

But I’m a more adventurous cook, so I often make an Italian goulash with ground turkey. This time around, though, I decided to use up some frozen macaroni and ground beef I had on hand. And, since I am addicted to vegetables and eating healthy these days, I also had to use as many fresh veggies in it as I could too.

The result was my latest thrown together meal creation… Easy Hamburger Goulash Stuffed with Veggies! You can view it by clicking on the link.

You may also want to check out our other ground beef recipes, ground turkey recipes or casserole recipes. And… if the spirit moves you… you can share your own recipes with us too! We’d love to try them.

Enjoy!

I frequently make vegetable frittatas for dinner. The recipe I use is super easy to adapt to your tastes and get on the table in less than 30 minutes. I guarantee that with this veggie frittata recipe, you’re going to start loving having eggs for dinner every week or so, just like me!

This truly is such an easy recipe for anyone to make… and it goes together in a snap. There is no limit to the variations, dependent only on what you have on hand at any given moment, as long as that includes eggs and a few vegetables.

We find the basic recipe is usually enough for us, but you can also make it with some chopped breakfast sausage, bacon or ham if you want more protein. Pair it with some homemade muffins or toast and you’ll surely have a complete meal that will satisfy even the heartiest appetite.

You might also want to serve your eggs with some salsa… It’s totally up to you! YOU are in the driver’s seat.

To get our easy recipe, visit the Thrown-Together-Meals.com website and pull up the Veggie Frittata page. If you have a favorite egg recipe (or any other kind of recipe), feel free to share your recipes here. Or get more Egg Recipes for Dinner ideas here.

This black bean and lentil soup is a spicy southwestern soup recipe thrown together with what I had on hand in the house one night… Delish!

During these cold months of winter, nothing goes better for dinner than a warm, hearty soup recipe. This one fits the bill there…

“OK… black beans, tomatoes and ground turkey on hand… what to make? How about my signature quick chili? Great! Oops… I’m missing all the rest of the ingredients… rethink that plan…”

This is the conversation I had with myself one evening recently, when I drifted into the kitchen after a long day at the computer to make dinner. I love my chili, but I had to come up with a different thrown together soup recipe when I realized I didn’t have all the ingredients on hand to make the traditional chili.

A few veggies, some spices and a canister of lentils later, I had a flavorful pot of soup going. You’ll find the full recipe and detailed cooking instructions on my main recipe site, Thrown Together Meals…

Black Bean and Lentil Soup

I hope you enjoy!

My Mushroom Gravy Pork Chops is one of my standard go-to recipes. I make it just about every couple of weeks, in some form or another. I’m posting the basic recipe here, but I’ve previously shared my Italian-version as a Recipe of the Week on the blog too.

You really can vary this recipe for a number of different flavor profiles, so that it fits what makes you and your family happy. It’s fast, easy and fairly healthy too, even though it has gravy.

If you like pork chops, mushrooms and gravy, then go ahead… try it out. I think you’ll enjoy it. Here is the recipe for Mushroom Gravy Pork Chops. Be sure to leave me some comment love about it either here or on that page, won’t you?

And later on, if you want more ideas for using pork, then check out my easy pork recipes page too. Or if you have your own favorite pork recipe, won’t you share it with us?

Thanks… until next time.