Lemon Raspberry Cornmeal Cake

July 19, 2022

I was served this the other morning, asked for the recipe and came home and made it the next day. One mixing bowl and a whisk is all you need for this rich and tender cornmeal cake. Raspberries and lemon zest add lots of flavor. The recipe calls for an optional lemon glaze, which I […]

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Avocado Corn Couscous Salad

July 12, 2022

Stella Drivas loves to share her family’s Greek recipes on her blog Hungry Happens. This is one of her top three salads of all time, and we found it delicious as well. Couscous, tomatoes, corn, mozzarella balls and avocado make a filling side dish and the vinaigrette is especially flavorful. I would absolutely use fresh […]

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Penne With Brussels Sprouts, Chile and Pancetta

July 5, 2022

You rarely find a NYT recipe with hundreds of 5 star ratings, but here’s another winner from the indefatigable Melissa Clark. I doubt her family has ever been served the same dish twice. This comes together quickly with powerful flavors of pancetta, garlic, rosemary, and chile. You could slice the sprouts in a food processor, […]

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Emergency Lasagna

June 27, 2022

I was craving a comforting Sunday night dinner. But what to make when my husband is recovering from dental surgery and I’m still testing positive for Covid?? Soft food with ingredients on hand. The happy solution was to borrow and simplify Julia Turshen’s “A Nice Lasagna ” from her cookbook Small Victories. Her recipe involves […]

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Another Dark Day in America

May 26, 2022

I’m choosing to quote New York Times food editor Sam Sifton instead of posting a recipe. “These are the most difficult mornings: the sun rising after senseless acts of violence, shining on beds that weren’t slept in, that won’t be slept in again. Food is comfort of a sort, and fuel as well, for anger […]

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One Pan Roasted Greek Chicken “Salad”

May 18, 2022

I would never have called this a salad, but it’s Stella Drivas’s delicious recipe so she can call it whatever she wants! She comes from a Greek family of wonderful cooks, and her website Hungry Happens is full of tasty Mediterranean dishes. This could not be easier; toss all the vegetables together with the marinade […]

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One Skillet Cheesy Chile Chicken

May 11, 2022

Another recipe from the amazingly prolific Tieghan Gerard at Half-Baked Harvest. (How is this girl so impossibly thin?) What I love about this dish is how quickly you put it together versus how rich and complex the flavor is. You could spend 10 minutes early in the day preparing the chicken and chopping the onion […]

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Asparagus Carbonara

May 5, 2022

One of the most requested dinners in this house is always spaghetti carbonara, so I did a double take when I saw this recipe. It is from Melissa Clark’s book “Dinner : Changing the Game”. The same flavors as the pasta dish but with thin asparagus spears at the center. Not surprisingly , we loved […]

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A New Angel in Heaven Just in Time for Mother’s Day …..

April 28, 2022

With a heavy heart I wish to share the passing of Virginia Vlack Tedrow a week ago today. Everything I like about myself I attribute to her, just a perfect role model for motherhood, optimism and kindness. My interest in cooking and food came from growing up in her kitchen, and I’ve inherited dozens of […]

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Pineapple Marinated Chicken Breasts

April 27, 2022

My friend Linda and I both made this dish right after it was published in the NYT recently, with great success! The pineapple is used in both the salsa and the marinade. Enzymes in fresh pineapple break down the tissue in the chicken breasts; tenderizing as well a flavoring it. Recipe author Eric Kim cautions […]

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