easy recipes for everyday busy lives

Recipes

Explore a delectable collection of recipes at Nicole’s Tasting Spoon! From mouthwatering classics to innovative culinary creations, our recipe cards offer a delightful journey for every food enthusiast. Unleash your inner chef and savor the joy of cooking with step-by-step instructions and flavorful inspiration.

Easy Cucumber and Tomato Salad

Easy Cucumber and Tomato Salad

This easy summer cucumber and tomato salad is easy, simple and goes with just about anything. It’s our favorite salad to have on repeat all summer long. I make a huge bowl just to have to for when the mood strikes. Perfect for lunch, snacks, 

BBQ Chicken Pizza

BBQ Chicken Pizza

BBQ chicken pizza is one of the most famous classic specialty pizzas ever known and we absolutely love it. The tangy sweet homemade BBQ sauce, creamy sharp provolone and mild mozzarella cheeses make this the most irresistible weeknight pizza. Topped with cooked rotisserie chicken, or 

Pasta Primavera with Seared Scallops

Pasta Primavera with Seared Scallops

Pasta primavera is the epitome of fresh summer pasta. It’s jam packed with steamed fresh vegetables, tossed in pasta, an herb-Parmesan sauce and topped with perfectly pan-seared butter scallops. It is a great way to use fresh vegetables if you just brought a haul home 

Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken BLT Salad

Honey Mustard Grilled Chicken BLT Salad

This honey mustard grilled chicken BLT salad is the definition of fresh summer salad weeknight dinner. With only a few simple ingredients, it is light and crisp. The honey mustard dressing is irresistibly delicious and just the perfect amount of sweet honey, tangy dijon mustard 

Overstuffed Beef Burrito-Enchiladas

Overstuffed Beef Burrito-Enchiladas

These overstuffed beef burrito-enchiladas are so amazing. Deliciously indulgent with so many Mexican flavors and textures, it is one of our favorite weeknight dinners right now. With a few simple ingredients, these wrap up and bake to perfection. Super easy taco-seasoned ground beef, black beans, 

Spring Green Vegetable Carbonara with Crispy Prosciutto

Spring Green Vegetable Carbonara with Crispy Prosciutto

Spring green vegetable carbonara is jammed packed with fresh green vegetables, fusilli pasta and tossed in a Parmesan-egg sauce. I topped this one with crispy prosciutto and soft creamy burrata, because why not. This weeknight meal comes together in the same amount of time it