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A collection of easy recipes for busy families, including pictures of each dish and some fun background on how one set of working parents, one teenager and one dog manage have fun in the kitchen!
Every summer I seem to run into a recipe that I just simply can't stop making over and over again. In the past it has been the Silver Palate's pasta with tomatoes and brie cheese, and fabulous "Way Life Should Be" lobster recipe from New York Times, (read full article)
Summertime is most definitely chicken salad season, and I don't mean the old chicken plus mayo plus celery version. Although there's definitely nothing wrong with that. But there are SO many chicken salads out there that are a perfect fusion of all (read full article)
This is one of those recipes that falls squarely in the comfort food category. There is nothing like something warm and cozy about shredded chicken with noodles and carrots in a delicious sauce to make you feel like pretty much everything is right wi (read full article)
The Southern husband and I have this thing going on called "The Restaurant Project." At least I call it that -- I think he calls it going out to dinner to a new place that involves the GPS every Saturday night. Actually, he doesn't call it anything a (read full article)
I love love love Mexican food, but sadly for me, really good Mexican restaurants are few and far between out here in the wilds of Northern New Jersey. Yes, there is El Bandido in Spring Valley, but unless you want to eat your Mexican dinner at 4pm in (read full article)
This is most definitely the suburban New Jersey version of pad thai, and I say that with pride. Let me explain.A couple of weeks ago the New York Times ran an article, complete with recipe, for pad thai. My friend S sent it to me first, followed by (read full article)
Summer is getting so close I can almost taste it, and one of the things I love best about summer is having my wooden barrels full of herbs. I plant little basil, parsley, thyme, mint, sage, rosemary and tarragon plants, and by the middle of July I (read full article)
This very well might be my all-time favorite dependable easy-but-elegant dinner recipe. Manageable enough to make for a crowd, easy enough to make for a lovely weeknight supper, elegant enough for entertaining, and 1000% reliable. Now, how many thi (read full article)
As some of you know, every morning I post whatever I am going to cook that day as my Facebook status for the day. (The origin of this is as follows: when I first got my Facebook page I never posted a status. The teenager told me that made me extremel (read full article)
This recipe almost didn't get made, because it is one of those recipes you tear out of the paper because it sounds so lovely and elegant, and then every time you come across the clipping it just sounds too fancy and complicated, but there's something (read full article)
Today I need to give a shout-out to one of my favorite cooking magazines, and that is Taste of Home. I do love my share of the fancy ones, like Saveur and Bon Appetit, and I get tons of recipes and ideas from fancy cooking experts like Mark Bittman a (read full article)
I am a sucker for any recipe that has "one bowl" in the title. And this particular one comes from one of my favorite go-to cookbooks for those crazy weeknights when you come home and you pretty much have no time whatsover to get dinner on the table.. (read full article)
Santa Claus totally, utterly spoiled me this year by leaving one of these under my tree.Not with the squash in it, just in case you were wondering.Anyway, I couldn't WAIT to chop up anything in sight, and luckily for me, the instruction manual includ (read full article)
Now in the great scheme of things, life is pretty good when you get to actually eat the serving dishes, don't you think? This is a quick quick quick recipe that has the extra added advantage of no plates to put in the dishwasher afterwards, because t (read full article)
I love this salad. It's right up there for me with my favorite taco salad -- one of those "chop up a bunch of those things that you like, toss them all together and voila! a scrumptious dinner" type of recipes. I will be perfectly honest and say that (read full article)
I promise to stop talking about chicken pot pie soon. I know I have talked about it here, and also here. But it's just that it is chilly outside now, and that automatically makes it Comfort Food Season, and chicken pot pie is one of the Ultimate Comf (read full article)
Yes, I am aware that chickens don't have shepherds. But I thought if I called this "Chickherd's Pie" you would really think I had gone off my rocker. If anyone has alternate ideas for what I should call this, bring 'em on!In the meantime, here is how (read full article)
Summer is slowly fading away, the evenings are getting brisk, and that always makes me think of apples and pumpkins and butternut squash...mmmmmm. Autumn comfort food, it's the best. This snazzy little recipe is another one adapted from Mark Bittman' (read full article)
How many of you out there own the SILVER PALATE COOKBOOK? How many of you have a version that is splattered and dog-eared and slightly falling apart because you have used it so much? If you have this book and it doesn't look like it has been through (read full article)
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