tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37105902012-02-12T22:37:32.388-06:00Healthy, Simple, and Budget-friendly Recipes for People With Busy LivesSunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809843772383621131noreply@blogger.comBlogger254125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3710590.post-30401170993420089342012-02-09T07:22:00.002-06:002012-02-09T09:50:04.792-06:00

Tacos nights are among our favorite kinds of dinners, but they are often very high cal and high fat.  This chicken taco recipe is figure-friendly; you can essentially have taco night for 350-400 calories per person.  Yay!  Plus, it's totally fun to make your own soft flour tortillas.      Ingredients (2 servings): ½ onion, diced ½ cup to 1 cup of corn 1 bell pepper, diced 4 oz chicken, chopped

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Kale is magic.  In one serving of kale, you get 130% the daily value of vitamin C, twice the daily value of vitamin A, fiber, calcium, iron, protein...all for 33 calories.  Kale is magic. Admittedly, it's not the easiest greenery to eat.  I like wilting them into lentils or soup, but I found that making baked chips out of them is the best way for kale to score a 10 for everyone, especially

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809843772383621131noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3710590.post-34335903355889964042012-01-25T06:02:00.004-06:002012-02-02T10:06:58.827-06:00

First of all, welcome to the newly improved Sunny-side Up Recipes!  I thought the ole blog needed a good makeover, so I opted for a cleaner, refreshing design.  I'm working on a banner to complete the look, but expect some small changes here and there as I play around with the designs.  Anyways, let's get to the recipe! Last weekend, my dear friend Ronnie celebrated her birthday.  Ronnie and I

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  Hello, Sunny-side Up Recipes readers!  It seems that the most popular pages on this site tend to be Korean food recipes, so here is another one for you to enjoy.  This is one that I always thought was difficult, but it turns out, it's super easy to make and requires very few ingredients.Of course, the secret ingredient behind this dish is what Koreans call sesame leaves, or kkennip, a very

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When my good friend Jim came over for brunch last month, I was excited for the chance to make a quiche in my new quiche pan.  This recipe is exciting because you can modify it in so many ways.  In fact, this recipe is modified from a swiss cheese and mushroom quiche recipe in my Moosewood Cookbook.  I modified it because Drew and I would have to eat the leftovers, and Drew doesn't like mushrooms

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My dear friend Johanna is an excellent baker, on top of being the world's sweetest person and a really intelligent researcher and awesome friend.  Oh, sorry guys, she's taken.  But don't be sad, because I'm about to share with you the recipe she gave me and Drew for our wedding (along with a cute pie plate and dough cutter--how adorable is that?) that really makes one of the best pie crusts I've

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This is a recipe that Drew's nana gave me at a bridal shower last winter.  I've been meaning to try it out for a while, and the two overripe-yet-not-quite-dead bananas on my counter gave me the perfect excuse to make this recipe.  It's an extremely healthy recipe, actually, but you wouldn't know it by how delectable it tastes, especially with a good cup of dark roast coffee.  Droooool.Let's

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  This recipe is actually an oldie.  I baked this pie a few times when I was in high school, and it usually came out pretty well.  Which is why when I baked it a few weeks ago and I failed horribly at making the lemon part solidify, I was extremely embarrassed and ashamed.  My sweet husband ate the messy half-liquid pie anyway, but my failure made me more determined than ever to redeem myself.  I

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  The first time I had gnocchi was with my best friend from childhood, Amanda, whose family is from Italy.  They are such delicious little pods of potatoey goodness, and for years I was under the impression they were impossibly hard to make.  Not so!  I made gnocchi a while back with Dani, and I realized how easy it actually is.  I finally got a potato ricer, which makes life a whole lot easier

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Though the title of this post might have already scared some people off, I really look back fondly at this pasta dish that I sort of developed during the past semester.  Although I love to cook every night, during the last phase of writing the Beast I wasn't able to really spend time making food when I got home from campus, since I had to turn right around to start working again.  So this was a

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I love anything that involves chickpeas.  They are the perfect texture, shape, and flavor (not too bean-y) and provides so many good nutrients.  Here is a wonderful side dish that is easy to make because it takes very few ingredients, so it can be whipped up real quick if you're needing something to go with your entree.  At the same time, it is hearty enough to be the main star in a lunch, like

Sunnyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10809843772383621131noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3710590.post-78805778888909503802011-06-17T12:41:00.000-05:002011-06-17T12:41:05.487-05:00

Hello food lovers!  I'm back!  I am so sorry i was away for so long, but good news!  I successfully defended my dissertation last month, so that's a wonderful victory.  And about two weeks ago, I married the man of my dreams!  We now live in a darling apartment and enjoying city life together :) Our new kitchen is small in size but has considerable counter space and storage, so I'm happy!  I had

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I miss food blogging.  I don't know what happened, other than life got in the way.  I am currently several weeks away from earning my Ph.D. (God willing...) and about 6 weeks from getting married.  And I know I've been bad, I want to get back to this blog so much, and I think about it all the time and think about you, my dear readers.  I got this sweet email the other day (actually, it was sent

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!  If your family is anything like mine, you are probably deliciously full and feeling slightly guilty about the amount of food you ate.  But mostly happy.  However, if you are looking for something a little bit lighter to serve at your New Year's function, or you just want something that doesn't require hours of preparation, this might be a nice change of

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This past weekend, I celebrated my 2#th birthday with some good friends of mine.  I decided to make these drop lace cookies as one of the desserts.  I found this recipe in my Real Simple magazine, and i thought it was so snowflake-like and lovely that I absolutely had to make it!  Ingredients (24 cookies): -1/2 stick butter -1/4 cup white sugar -1/4 cup light brown sugar -2 tbsp heavy cream -1/

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About a year ago, I participated in a recipe exchange that got me tons of yummy recipes from random strangers.  One such recipe was a Cornbread Casserole, which a woman named Jill sent to me.  I decided to make it for a potluck last week, and, because I am who I am, I spiced it up a bit with green chilies.  I would have added jalapenos, but I didn't want it to be too spicy for the, er....weaker

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What better way to kick off a renewal of SSUR than this sweet and salty combination that has become hugely popular in the last few years?  When you take something as rich and often blindingly sweet as caramel and then cut it with the shock of sea salt, you really have a killer combination.  I decided to celebrate this union in the form of a cupcake. The culprits.  Ingredients: -1 box

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Dearest SSUR readers!  I've missed you more than you know!  Before we go on, I will say that the site will be up and running again this weekend, hooray!  So many people have been asking me what has become of this blog.  I was away as a visitor in Massachusetts, which was fabulous in every which way, except for the fact that I was renting a room in this woman's house, and I felt like it'd be

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On Monday I posted a recipe for a healthy alternative to Eggplant Parmesan.  When I made it, I had a lot of leftovers, and instead of eating the eggplant with pasta again and again, I ended up eating it in a sandwich.  I secretly loved this sandwich even more than I loved the pasta dish.  Here's what I did.  I toasted up some whole wheat bread. Layered on a few slices of smoked turkey breast.

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Eggplant parmesan is amazing, but it's not the healthiest meal in the world.  It's so drenched in cheese and butter that it takes a perfectly healthy vegetable and makes it a food quite high in fat.  Plus, it takes a while to make eggplant parmesan, and time is something I don't have a lot of these days.  So, I decided to make an alternative eggplant parmesan: it has the essential elements of

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I know you've all been waiting for this :)  Kimbop is the ultimate Korean picnic/travel/packed lunch food.  It's often mistaken as sushi rolls, but Korean kimbop has no raw fish.  It's usually packed with yummy vegetables like carrots, spinach, and cucumber, proteins like bulgogi or imitation crab, and egg.  Everything rolled together in kim (=seaweed) and bop (=rice).  You don't need to be a

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  And the winner of the slow cooker giveaway is.... Number 19 just happens to be... Congrats Sabeen!  I agree, Mac and Cheese is definitely a feel-good meal.  Especially with tons of pepper.  I even wrote a Sunday Story about this a long time ago. Sabeen, please email sunny@sunnysideuprecipes.com to claim your prize! Thanks to everyone who entered and made me wish I had a bad day so I can

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Some of my favorite recipes are made in a slow cooker.  It's a relatively new cooking appliance for me, as I didn't grow up with one in our Korean kitchen.  However, as a busy grad student, I'm learning to take advantage of this wonderful piece of cookware more and more.  It's like having a trophy husband or man-servant cook for you all day long.  Without all the baggage.  That's why I decided

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This past week has been a blur of craziness!  I just moved into my new place, which has plenty of beautiful windows in the kitchen.  I still have tons of unpacking left to do, but as long as I have my computer set up, my clothes hanging, and my coffee maker plugged in, I'm ready to roll. This recipe is one that I made as an effort to add more fish to my diet.  I really love fish, but I don't

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A few weeks ago, my family went on a camping trip.  We've been going on these trips for almost 20 years.  It used to be that my mom and dad would make all the meals, but this time, my parents were like, "Well, you're some sort of food blogger, right?  You can make lunch." Sweet!  I decided to make some spicy burgers for my spice-lovin' family.  Ingredients: -1 lb ground beef -1/2 cup bread

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