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It's corn on the cob season. Here are three easy ways to enjoy this great side dish. Grilled corn on the cob, microwave corn on the cob or oven roasted corn on the cob... your choice. As an Iowan, I clam genetic superiority in all things corn. You will love all three methods. I have published all of these before but this is your Spring reminder. Click to Continue
Meet your new favorite side dish. A crispy parmesan crusted potato half infused with garlic and butter. This is SO EASY, it's an "everyday" recipe but it well also be your go to recipe for company. Skill level 2/10, just don't cut yourself with the knife. Start with some butter, seasoning and parmesan in a glass baking pan. Scrub up some potatoes, cut in half and place
Wonderfully spicy grill tilapia. Keep them coming back for more with this blackened tilapia. Healthy eating has never been so good nor so simple and easy. Click to Continue
An easy homemade tarter sauce using only 4 ingrediants you already have in your kitchen. Use it anywhere you need it. I broke this out of my Oven Baked Blackened Tilapia post so I could refer to it better from other recipes. Click to Continue
A great grilled sided for the summer and it is simple, simple, simple. Only a few secrets to getting that whole baked potato grilled to perfection and it does not involve aluminum foil. Click to Continue
BBQ at its absolute tastiness. This is the best grill pork tenderloin... period. Moist, tender and the most wonderful spicy taste. Memphis BBQ Pork Tenderloin is the most common recipe people claim as their all time favorite from my site. It had a special spot on my site for a year and a half as "My One Must Try Recipe". And I called it the best meal I had ever grilled at the ti
A family friendly easy baked taco casserole that has great spiciness just in time for Cinco de Mayo. Think of it a Mexican comfort food. Click to Continue
Don't know the safe temperature for that ground chicken or what to substitute for buttermilk, I have your back. I now have a special place for you. Check out the new Kitchen Cheat Sheets page. You will find cooking references for most of your everyday kitchen needs. For the shape eyed visitors, you may have noticed this page appear and disappear a few minutes later many times as I worked on
Never buy another package of taco seasoning with this spicy taco seasoning in your pantry. This is SO MUCH BETTER. Now you can have a tasty tacos in about 15 minutes. Click to Continue
Smoky ham flavor in a slow cooker simple vegetable soup. We occasionally have a ham bone, not a real common occurrence when you're cooking for two but it does happen. So what to do with a ham bone from that holiday spiral cut ham? You can toss it or make soup. Click to Continue
Guilty pleasures - low fat edition. I love a tasty sweet something for breakfast but they usually ar not good for me.It must be good for you... it has blueberries and whole wheat. Plus it is only 200 calories and just under 3 grams of fat. Click to Continue
A new and improved recipe index in now online. It includes all posts from the beginning of this site has a more complete listing of categories of recipes. The previous had a 25 post listing per category limit and cut off a lot of early posts. Give it a look. PS. For you bloggers out there, new instructions for an automatic updating recipe index are on my Blog Within A Blog&nbs
Wonderfully moist and almost good for you. At about 250 calories and 7 grams of fat you get one of the best carrot cakes I have had plus it won't leave a pool of oil on the plate. I away though carrot cake would be hard to make. Nope... it was relatively easy with 3/10 skill level and just a little more work than a coffee cake. You can do this cake. A normal recipe for carrot cake s
Use it for BBQ, use it for Mexican or anywhere you wand a moist and tasty shredded pork. Healthy and low fat "pulled" pork from a pork loin using a slow cooker. An almost no work recipe. I love pork but generally pork loin is way too lean for shredding but cooking it in a spiced up braising liquid and then adding some back for moisture will get you what you want. I modified my own
Tender and fluffy with really good taste in a non-guilty zero fat biscuit. Some recipes are low fat but this one is zero. Using non fat yogurt to replace the butter and milk, you still get great rise and texture. Plus, just a few ingredients will get you there. Click to Continue
Sweet and Spicy OR is it Spicy and Sweet? Which ever, but this is a really tasty pork tenderloin. Start with a spicy rub, pan sear and oven bake . Then brush with a sweet spicy sauce you make from the rub. Very nice. Click to Continue
Easy and tasty for Italian night. Just dump the ingredients in the slow cooker and come back to eat. I started with my wife's marinara. It bursts with sweet tomato taste due to the paste that is used. Add some skinless boneless chicken breast and you have a healthy low fat Italian family feast. Click to Continue
A healthier banana bread with mostly whole wheat, less fat and sugar. Drop the calories by over a third and the fat by 75%. It's time to fell less guilty for that great taste. Click to Continue
A tasty recipe for salmon baked with butter and lemon. This is your basic 20 minute weeknight recipe that you can serve company anytime. Click to Continue
Many of you use Google Plus so I'm "coming out of the closet" with my real name. I have been hiding behind DrDan for 3 years now. I haven't been very hidden since it was buried at the bottom of each post anyways. So this is for you Google+ people. I will try to be social. I will continue to use DrDan since I like that name from one of my favorite children's book .
A classic comfort food made crock pot easy. Have a full meal with left overs ready when you get home. Spend a few minutes making gravy and you're the dinner hero. I started with a chuck roast. You can use a leaner cut of beef but it will not be as tender. We like our roast falling apart. I browned mine before adding and cooked the onion and garlic a little before starting but skip b
We love hash browns. Not good for us but we love them. But people seem not to be able to make a decent has brown. Tips for a really good hash brown. Use a nonstick pan Use enough oil The potatoes MUST be dry (see pictures below) And last, KEEP YOU HANDS OFF That is all you need to know. Click to Continue
A kid friendly healthier baked chicken nugget for lunch time or a weeknight meals. Done in 25 minutes. No mystery ingredient to go into the kiddies with these. You know what is in these nuggets. (You might say pediatrician recommended...) Click to Continue
A scrumptious quick bread. Simple enough for a family breakfast but eloquent enough for gifting. Click to Continue
Another "dump and go" easy slow cooker recipe. A classic healthy Italian recipe that is low in fat. The chicken comes out moist, fall apart tender and packed with taste. Click to Continue
What to do??? What to do??? Everyone wants something special for their Superbowl. After all it is about food and commercials. Some people actually watch the game. But it really is about the food. So what self respecting food blog doesn't have some ideas. It's "Man Ball" time so I'm offering meat only suggestions. I have some great pizzas and other recipes, but we are talking football her
A very nice ultra simple slow cooker recipe for chicken noodle soup. Sized just right for a small crock pot. Bring on the cold season, I'm ready now. Also the start of a new recipe series... "Crock Pot For Two" I have a new "for two" toy, a Cuisinart PSC-350 3-1/2-Quart Programmable Slow Cooker. I have not really suffered in the slow cooker area, I have a excellent All Clad (6 1/2 qt) a
You can never have too many great chicken recipes. Put this one up there with the best you have. It has it all: wonderful spicy Parmesan taste, great texture, moist and oh so easy. I based this off an allrecipe.com recipe. I added some panko bread crumbs and garlic since all chicken must have garlic at our house. With the Parmesan combined with paprika and garlic, you get a tasty main dish
This is the EASIEST white chicken chili slow cooker recipe you will ever see. Dump, dump, dump cook for 4 hours with stirring once or twice in the middle. You are rewarded for you laziness with a great chili and all your friends will demand the recipe. For the first time, I'm repeating a recipe. This was one of my first posts and it has always been one of my most requested recipes. Mayb
Just put that uncooked macaroni in the crock pot. Yep, uncooked. Add some milk and spices. Cook. Then add cheese and in a few minutes you're done. Great taste, wonderful creamy texture in the easiest creamiest slow cooker mac and cheese you will ever see. You can make this tonight. No blue box for you. Click to Continue
This is one of those great older recipes that is easy and absolutely delicious. I love a classic recipe. They are usually easy and almost always present a unmatched wholesome taste with simple ingredients. My wife has mentioned scalloped potatoes several times in the last month and I can eventually take a hint. I'm in the habit of not telling her what I'm cooking. I just call her f
I'm pleased to announce two changes that will make 101 Cooking For Two more useful for you. First is a cleanup of the print function. This has been an issue at times for the last year and a half. All recipes now have a working print function. Almost all of the print buttons are located within the "rich snippet" area of the post at the bottom of the post (the recipe area with the boarder aro
A really good hardy soup that is a copy cat of Olive Gardens Pasta E Fagioli. Now you can make this gem at home. Click to Continue
Let's start the year with an old favorite. A tasty, quick, no planning needed coffee cake that any dad can do. Dads can cook too... Before I "cooked", this is one of the things I cooked. I would get up in the morning with no plans and suddenly decide it was a coffee cake morning for everyone. So in 40 minutes, we had two hot out of the oven coffee cakes with what we always had
One pot, stove top, no precooking the pasta plus it's creamy and very tasty. I needed a simple side dish for my chicken salad lunch. I had seen this technique/recipe around several places but I'll give the inspired by to Stephanie at Plain Chicken with her One Pot Mac and Cheese which was adapted from whiteonricecouple.com. If you need a mac and cheese recipe, Plain Chicken is the go
Welcome to my yearly top 10 and year in review. First the high points for the blog. Growth 300% with milestones of 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 page views. Affiliations with Maratha's Circle and ZipList Professionally designed logo (I couldn't help but tweet it some myself) My new DSLR. I love toys Now the Top Ten. As I always say, it is a little like picking a favorite child. My th
Don't you just love the smell of the candied nuts at the mall or at a fair. I always have a hard time resisting. These will make the perfect "hostess gift" for that holiday party. And nobody will believe you did it yourself at home. What could be better? Plus it's an easy cook. A 2/10 (maybe a 1/10) skill level. It's time to impress your friends with you cooking abili
A slow cooker easy recipe that will give you a very moist and flavorful shredded Mexican beef that is perfect for any Mexican dish – nachos, tacos, burritos or enchiladas. The cooked roast will literally fall apart making a moist and juicy shredded beef. Click to Continue
Great in tacos or anywhere you would use Mexican shredded chicken. A chicken taco salad. Chicken burritos or enchiladas. My wife is planning a Mexican buffet with this as a featured component. Start with some skinless boneless chicken breast and cook in a slow cooker in spiced up salsa until it falls apart. Shred and add some sour cream, corn and black beans. Rate My wife
One heck of a tasty muffin. Good enough to hide a couple of bananas just to use for muffins later. Plus it's an easy (3/10) bake. I had the bananas and decided to go for muffins this time. A great decision. I read about 10 recipes but the best ones seemed to have something in common. They controlled the liquid components. By that I mean all the non-dry things like the bananas, eggs etc are
Yummy.... A thick cheese soup with chicken for a change of pace. Add some bacon and you have a warm tasty soup for the cold weather to come. Start with crispy fried bacon, some onion, garlic, a few spices and some broth. Melt some cheese in and add some shredded chicken. Rating: Almost a 4 but I found myself wanting some broccoli added. Notes: I added a lot more cheese than oth
A flavorful brine for your holiday turkey that will add a lot of moisture and taste to the bird. Thanksgiving means turkey in our family and not a deep fried one. We are traditional so we are talking an oven roasted bird here. For many years we bought the "American classic" frozen bird that all the stores sell. You know... the "self basting" ones. Thaw it, butter or oil it up and stick it i
A recipe for meatballs that are scrumptious with a great Parmesan Italian taste. Eat them on their own, in a marina sauce or a sub sandwich. Done in 30 minutes. This is not the little hard tasteless meatballs but a big soft tasty one. I wanted a meatball good enough to eat on it's own and not need to be hidden inside of a sauce. It needed to use common ingredients that I always have on
A very easy weeknight chicken Parmesan. With a very moist and tender chicken and a tasty cruchy topping, this may be just what you're looking for. I started with a very popular recipe from Food Wishes. The idea is to smoother skinless boneless chicken breasts in some marinara sauce then top with Parmesan, mozzarella and some garlic croutons. I cut the recipe in half... we are cooking for tw
The new leader for recipe of the year. This chicken has everything. It's extremely moist, great taste, a little crunchiness and it is SIMPLE. My wife has changed the Christmas menu from my 5-star Chicken Parmesan to this recipe. Start with some mayo. You could use lower fat if you wish here. Some recipes use zero fat Greek yogart as the base instead. Add some Parmesan and seasoning. Coat so
A very tasty lunch for the busy holiday season. Your eating in 10 minutes with minimal work. Sometime you will need a fast lunch on the run and this was one of those days. I had forgot to plan for lunch. I had no supplies. So to the pantry was raided. I emerged with a can of chicken. How odd... Inspired by Martha Stewart's Classic Chicken Salad with a few minor changes Rating An
As a special thank you to all of you and in celebration of 2,000,000 page views, I'm giving away a cookbook. The obvious choice is America's Test Kitchen's Cooking for Two 2012. It just seems appropriate don't you think. I know the 2,000,000 is just the blogger count and not the most accurate. See widget lower left. The rules and how to enter: There are always rules in life. 1)
'Tis the season as they say. Who can't use a few gift suggestions for the foodie in your life or if you're the foodie, a few last minute additions to your list... OR just gift yourself. Here are a few of my favorite food thingy bobs. 1 to 5 in reverse order but I love them all. All the links to the products are through my Amazon associate account. All profit from my Amazon account fr
With all the holiday cooking to come, we will all be found short of an ingredient or two in the "heat of battle". Here's a live line for you. The first of my online cooking reference section.
