Chef Debi

This week’s recipe is a healthier version of fried ravioli, these are oven-baked and homemade. Kids really love this dish for dinner. Serve with a mixed greens salad and dinner is done. 

With this dish, I took the flavors of an antipasto platter and created a wonderful chicken dinner filled with amazing flavors and full of color. You can add black olives to this dish, as well. 

Last Friday, I recreated a dinner for a couple celabrating their 20th wedding anniversary. They asked me to make the same meal they enjoyed the night of their wedding.

This recipe is healthy, fast and gluten-free. It is a great weeknight dinner, and a creative way to shake up a routine of serving the same chicken dishes.  

This is a really good recipe if you like salmon and asparagus. Celebrate spring with this recipe filled with spring flavors. Two of my clients who I cook for every week have gluten-free diets, so when I make this recipe, I just swap the pasta, and the dish becomes a healthy, gluten-free meal. 

With outside parties just around the corner, this healthy spinach artichoke dip with homemade pita chips is a great alternative to chips and dip. 

My Swedish meatballs are made with a combination of lean ground turkey breast and ground pork. They are flavored with nutmeg and cardamom and simmered in a creamy mushroom sauce.

Poaching chicken breasts in a mango and spice mixture gives this simple recipe tons of flavor. The cooking liquid doubles as a simple sauce with the addition of cornstarch. The entire recipe takes less than 30 minutes to prepare, and it can easily be made gluten-free. 

An Italian tradition, Easter Pie, as it is colloquially known, is a quiche-like, savory pie filled with eggs, cheese, meat and a variety of other possibilities. It is definitely not diet food as it is rich and dense – part of the reason I only make it once a year.

This delicious pomegranate/orange glaze also can be used on chicken, salmon or pork. 

With pork on special at the stores right now, this is an economical, good family recipe. And this chutney recipe also is good over cheesecake, ice cream and grilled meats.

Share a romantic dinner at home this Valentine’s Day with my healthier Beef Bourguignon recipe.

This is a great healthy pasta recipe for everyone. It can be made gluten free very easily. My weekly clients request this recipe often. 

On these cold winter days, a good bowl of soup can really hit the spot.

When I delivered food to my weekly client last week, he asked me if I could make him beef stroganoff. It’s his favorite dinner, and he had not had it for a long time. 

I’m not sure where I first saw this recipe many years ago, but I have made it as a centerpiece ever since. The original recipe called for a Styrofoam center, but if you prefer a centerpiece that is all edible, you can use a hollowed out green apple as the “tree stand” and a straight zucchini as the “trunk.” Enjoy a merry Christmas with this healthy edible centerpiece.

I love this healthy recipe for holiday time. You can make these meatballs ahead of time and freeze them to have on hand all season. You can make smaller meatballs for appetizers, and they are great to serve as part of the holiday dinner. 

Pasta with Sausage and Pumpkin Sauce

Here is a healthy, seasonal side dish for your Thanksgiving dinner.