In today's Cooking at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton uses wild ramps that he bought at the farmers market, to make scalloped potatoes with bacon and cheddar cheese. Ramps are one of the first edible greens of the new spring season.
5/22/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
If you're a big fan of oatmeal cookies but not a big fan of the amount of butter that most recipes call for, you'll like today's Healthy at Home recipe. Chef Dan Eaton makes peanut butter oatmeal cookies that contain no butter whatsoever.
5/21/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
On today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton shows you just how easy it is to steam fresh artichokes. Although they're often served with melted butter and lemon juice for dipping, he adds some finely-chopped fresh mint to extra virgin olive oil and lemon juice for a healthier version.
5/20/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Cooking at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton makes a meal with salmon, baby potatoes, sweet onions and broccoli. He serves that with a simple parsley, caper and balsamic vinaigrette. He cooks everything in a 400-degree oven, in stages, starting with the potatoes.
5/17/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton uses the oven to roast asparagus and radicchio with olive oil and grated parmesan cheese. He adds some canned pineapple chunks to the oven and finishes with a combination of pineapple juice, balsamic vinegar, olive oil and black pepper.
5/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
On today's Cooking at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton makes a meal with cheese ravioli, sweet onion and asparagus. He ties everything together with a simple tomato vodka cream sauce. This is a springtime twist on a tasty pasta sauce.
5/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
On today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton makes a healthy version of mashed potatoes by substituting nonfat Greek yogurt for the typical butter and heavy cream and keeping the Greek theme going by incorporating lemon, fresh dill, garlic and diced cucumber.
5/14/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton uses quinoa to make a salad with strawberries, spinach, goat cheese and toasted almonds. All of that is tossed with a simple olive oil and orange juice dressing.
5/13/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton uses sliced deli roast beef to make hot cheese melt sandwiches with sliced cheddar cheese, pickled jalapeno peppers and sweet onions. It's a tasty twist on a classic Philly cheese steak sandwich.
5/10/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
For this edition of Cooking at Home, Dan Eaton bakes up a simple and delicious meal: oven-roasted salmon with roasted potatoes, broccoli and onions and a balsamic caper vinaigrette.
5/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton uses quinoa to make a healthy salad with strawberries, spinach, toasted almonds and goat cheese.
5/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton creates a roast beef and cheddar cheese melt, with pickled jalapeno peppers and cheddar cheese.
5/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Cooking at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton makes eggs Benedict with English muffins, Canadian bacon, poached eggs and a Hollandaise sauce. He serves that up with steamed fresh asparagus. This breakfast works especially well in the spring and summer.
5/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton uses store-bought mushroom broth to make a homemade mushroom, spinach and sweet onion soup and then, for optional finishing depth of flavor, he drizzles a little truffle infused olive oil over the top.
5/8/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Combining rice and beans is a great way to have a complete protein without having to eat meat. In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton makes Cuban-style black beans and rice and then serves them with a simply-dressed avocado, tomato and romaine lettuce salad.
5/7/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
On today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton separates eggs and then uses just the egg whites to make a healthy frittata with sauteed onion, red pepper and zucchini. He tops them with reduced-fat shredded cheese.
5/6/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton uses canned chopped clams to make New England clam chowder with a sprinkling of smoked paprika.
5/2/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
For this edition of Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton prepares a sweet potato salad with bacon, hard boiled eggs, sweet onions, and peas. It's a nice twist on a classic potato salad.
5/2/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton uses store-bought whole wheat pizza dough to make a tasty and colorful pizza with pepperoni, pineapple, black olives, grated mozzarella cheese and sweet onion.
5/1/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, chef Dan Eaton makes a meal with whole wheat penne pasta, spinach, sweet onions, grape tomatoes and low-fat ricotta cheese. Try adding a few pitted Kalamata olives to each serving for a nice contrasting flavor.
4/30/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton does a version of Italian-style greens and beans with chopped escarole and chopped radicchio and low-sodium canned chick peas instead of the more typical cannellini beans.
4/29/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
This is a twist on a Caesar salad that uses a cast iron skillet to make a grilled Romaine lettuce with garlic, lemon, olive oil and Parmesan cheese. Instead of the typical anchovies in a Caesar salad dressing, this will have sun-dried tomatoes, capers and black olives.
4/26/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton uses elbow macaroni to make a ground beef and cheddar macaroni and cheese. He gives it a Southwestern flair by adding ground cumin and some canned diced chipotle peppers.
4/25/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton is thinking spring when he makes a meal with cheddar cheese grits and sauteed sweet onions and asparagus, topped with a simple poached egg.
4/24/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton uses Arborio rice to make a vegetarian risotto with broccoli, carrots, sweet onions and parmesan cheese. Because of the tricky timing for cooking risotto, steam the broccoli florets separately and then add them just before serving.
4/23/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Everybody knows how to make a pot of oatmeal, but today's Healthy at Home recipe puts a couple of twists on that process. It's served with dry-roasted, unsalted almonds and maple and cinnamon glazed apples. You can add a little wheat germ for extra nutrition.
4/22/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton makes a homemade vanilla pudding and then serves it up with sliced bananas and toasted coconut. He uses light brown sugar for a light butterscotch flavor but you can also use granulated white sugar.
4/19/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton makes a meal that's great anytime of the day when he uses eggs to make a frittata with leeks, baby potatoes, bacon and cheddar cheese. He uses a 10-inch cast iron skillet and eventually finishes it in a 350-degree oven.
4/18/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton makes a chunky vegetable stew with carrots, potatoes, mushrooms, leeks, canned stewed tomatoes and fresh thyme. Cut the leeks carefully as they tend to be kind of sandy on the inside.
4/17/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton makes maple, apple, oatmeal and raisin muffins. The apple part of the muffin comes from unsweetened applesauce, which also replaces most of the typical oil. And for extra health, he adds a bit of whole wheat flour and wheat germ.
4/16/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton uses canned boneless skinless salmon to make salmon cakes with avocado, red onion and cilantro and then serves those with a simple black bean and chopped romaine lettuce salad.
4/15/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
On today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton uses the oven to bake cornmeal-crusted catfish and then serves that with a buttermilk cabbage coleslaw. This recipe uses only two catfish fillets but makes four servings of the slaw.
4/12/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
This layered casserole version of stuffed cabbage rolls uses ground turkey but other meats will do. It will taste like stuffed cabbage but you'll want to slice it like lasagna and serve it over warmed marinara sauce.
4/11/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton uses the oven to make a rustic and inexpensive meal with chicken drumsticks and roasted red onion and cauliflower. For optional depth of flavor, he adds capers, golden raisins, spicy pepperoncini peppers and fresh parsley to the vegetables and then serves everything over the top of marinara sauce.
4/10/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Deviled eggs are not exactly the healthiest thing, but in today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton leaves out the egg yolks and mayonnaise and substitutes homemade guacamole instead. He adds canned diced chipotle peppers to the guacamole for the "deviled" part.
4/9/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton uses a combination of whole wheat flour, oatmeal and wheat germ to make whole grain blueberry buttermilk pancakes. He uses frozen blueberries and finishes with a dollop of nonfat plain yogurt and real maple syrup.
4/8/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Today on Cooking at Home, Chef Dan Eaton uses no-boil pasta lasagna sheets to make a vegetarian lasagna with Portobello mushrooms, onions, spinach and cheese. He also adds some jarred marinara sauce to the mix
4/5/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton makes an Americanized version of an Indian curried vegetable dish with peas, carrots and coconut milk and then serving it with basmati rice. He uses defrosted frozen peas and premade curry powder, onion, jalapeno pepper and then finishes with fresh chopped cilantro.
4/4/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
Chef Dan Eaton makes a Cajun-inspired meal with Cajun spice rubbed chicken breasts served with a creamy tomato sauce made with celery, peppers and onions. It might be more traditional to serve something like this with rice but he uses egg noodles.
4/3/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton
In today's Healthy at Home recipe, Chef Dan Eaton uses the oven to make homemade granola with maple syrup, walnuts and dried cranberries. To keep it extra healthy, he substitutes unsweetened applesauce for most of the typical oil and then adds wheat germ to finish.
4/2/2013 - By: Chef Dan Eaton