Tag: easy

• Delicious Eggplant Gratin: A Taste of Italy at Home

  

  Welcome back to my blog! It’s definitely summer time now here in NYC. I really try not to cook much in the summer but it’s hard to stay away when homemade food tastes so much better than eating out. This is a fun dish to assemble, requires minimal work, simple ingredients and tastes fabulous! It…

  Nikki Mak

  July 12, 2025

  Recipes

  basil, breadcrumbs, easy, eggplant, food, gratin, herbs de provence, homemade, italy, mozzarella, parmesan, recipe, Recipes, summer, tomato, tomato sauce, vacation, vegetarian

• Delicious Spinach Ravioli in 30 Minutes

  

  Hey y’all!! How’s the weather around you looking like now? I’m so happy it’s been a lot warmer here in my town. It’s about damn time too! I got another delicious recipe for you so let’s get right into it. This is my mushroom spinach ravioli dish, I definitely buy the pre-made ravioli from the…

  Nikki Mak

  May 6, 2025

  Recipes

  company, dinner, easy, entertain, food, fresh, guests, healthy, heavy cream, left overs, mushroom, nutritious, pasta, pre-made, protein, quick, ravioli, recipe, Recipes, spinach, vegetable stock, veggie

• Healthy Arborio Rice Stuffed Peppers

  

  Hey everyone! I hope y’all have been doing well, we are now in Spring and waiting on that sunshine to bring back some LIFE. I’m starting to enjoy the Spring weather more as I make my way back to the skatepark soon. I actually have skated during the cold season (because I’m crazy like that),…

  Nikki Mak

  March 25, 2025

  Recipes

  arborio rice, cheese, dinner, easy, feta, food, garlic, greek, healthy, italian, kalamata, nutritious, olive oil, olives, quick, recipe, Recipes, red bell peppers, water, weeknight

• Panko Crusted Tilapia

  

  So this weekend, I was deciding between two dishes on what to cook for dinner, the winner of the two choices was tilapia. I normally don’t opt to make this fish but why the F not? Are you not ok with me cursing? Oh well.. Let’s get cookin! This has to be one of the…

  Nikki Mak

  February 19, 2023

  Recipes

  15 min meal, 30 min meal, breadcrumbs, easy, fish, gordon ramsay, lemon, old bay seasoning, panko, paprika, quick, seasonings, sides, thyme, tilapia

• Ground Beef Baked Ziti

  

  What’s going on y’all?? I got a really simple tasty recipe that’s been around for ages. Who hasn’t heard of baked ziti? For me personally I was relieved I was able to enjoy this dish because sometimes certain meats don’t do well for me… meaning my body just doesn’t like them. I’m trying to work…

  Nikki Mak

  November 11, 2022

  Recipes

  30 minute meals, 30 minutes, baked ziti, beef, cheese, dinner, easy, ground beef, nutmeg, pasta sauce, simple, stock, vegetable masala, weeknight, ziti

• Lemon Orzo Feta Salad w/ Dijon Honey Dressing

  

  Alright my dear readers, it’s officially summer! We had our first real hot summer day here yesterday and from what I heard it was almost 90 degrees F!! I checked the forecast for today’s high which is going to be 89 ohhh baby that’s sizzling. So of course I wanted to make something refreshing for…

  Nikki Mak

  May 22, 2022

  Recipes

  cheese, cherry tomato, chicken, cucumber, dinner, easy, feta, onion, orzo, pasta, quick and easy, red onion, salad, summer recipe

• Easy Turkey Zucchini Bowl

  

  What I LOVE about this easy meal is the colors. I made sure to include lots of colors in my meal to get some of nature’s prescription for good health. The colors in my meal were green, orange, yellow and some red too! You need all the colors of the rainbow in your nutrition! Don’t…

  Nikki Mak

  March 25, 2022

  Recipes

  bell pepper, dinner, easy, ground turkey, healthy, onion, recipe, zucchini