This Chicken Marsala, which I first posted several years ago, never gets old. With the weather turning colder this is comfort food at its best. It is cooked in one skillet, large enough to hold the 4 chicken breasts, sauteed mushrooms, and the creamy Marsala sauce. A side of mashed potatoes or your choice of…
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Lidia’s Rigatoni Woodsman-Style
If you are not familiar with Lidia Bastianich, she is an Italian-American, celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur, specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine. The name Woodsman-Style refers to the plentiful mushrooms in the sauce, and the presumption it is the “woodsmen” who find the wild mushrooms in the forest. However, almost any variety…
Honey Garlic Shrimp, Corn, and Avocado Bacon Salad
This is another winning recipe from Tieghan Gerard, author of the cookbook, Half-Baked Harvest. Check out these two I have previously posted… this fall salad recipe. And while you’re at it, this beautiful Honey Ginger Chicken Stir-Fry. The Honey Garlic Shrimp, Corn, and Avocado Bacon Salad is much more than a salad… it is a…
Vegetable Stir-Fry with Pineapple
My effort to use up a lot of odds and ends of vegetables in my refrigerator this week resulted in this Vegetable Stir-Fry with Pineapple dish we enjoyed for dinner a few evenings ago. Among the vegetables I combined were …baby bok choy, sugar snaps, red, orange and yellow mini peppers, carrots, celery, fresh corn…
Romaine and Shrimp Salad with Homemade Thousand Island Dressing
The inspiration for this yummy salad comes from the Brown Sugar Kitchen cookbook by Tanya Holland. In it she features more than 80 recipes for recreating her Oakland, California soul-food restaurant’s favorites at home. My son from from the San Francisco area selected this book to give me a few years ago when my sons…
Lemon Chicken with Green Beans Stir Fry
This Lemon Chicken with Green Bean Stir Fry is a delicious one skillet quick dish made with simple ingredients, most of which you may have on hand. The original recipe is one from Martha Stewart. I added some store-bought candied pecans from my freezer for some added crunch, and a bit of sweetness. To the…
Skirt Steak Fajitas
These delicious Skirt Steak Fajitas are bursting with flavor and texture. I discovered this winning recipe in the NYT online cooking column several years ago. I first made them then, and you can find the recipe on my blog here. While skirt steak is featured here, Martha Rose Shulman , who created this recipe for…
Wedge Salad
I haven’t posted anything for almost a month for a very wonderful reason. Our grandson who will soon be 9 months old came to visit for the first time with my son and daughter-in-law! Due to the pandemic we have visited him twice, at 1 week, and again at 4 months, with many safety precautions…
Kale Salad with Bacon and Pecorino
This is a simple kale salad with a garlicky Caesar dressing. Add the crispy bacon or pancetta, homemade croutons, and some shavings of Pecorino cheese for a salad bursting with flavor and crunch! Note: For years now I have been baking bacon on a rack over a sheet pan or on a broiler pan…
Honey-Ginger Chicken Stir-Fry
The recipe for this stir-fry comes from Tieghan Gerard, the author of the cookbook, Half-Baked Harvest. I make many stir-fries, some of which I have featured on my blog, but I was drawn to this one not only for its ingredients, but for the beauty of the arrangement. We often see “composed…