For a quick dinner last night I decided to turn my favorite potato salad into an entree by adding chicken to it. Using the fresh dill, radishes and spring onions I had picked up at the farmer’s market I tweaked my Vermont Potato Salad ( to be posted later this summer) to create this quick…
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Chicken Souvlaki
My family and I love Greek food! We became accustomed to it during the years we lived in Chicago. In fact when my husband and I moved there and I was pregnant with our first son almost once a week we went to a little Greek spot in our neighborhood. It was there I was…
Butternut Squash Soup and Silky Cauliflower Soup
This past week with the weather showing no let up from it’s continual barrage of cold, snow, ice, more snow, and slush I’ve found my soup making madness continues. I first made a quick butternut squash soup. Later in the week I decided to use up a cauliflower in a new way by making…
Chicago Style Stuffed Spinach Pizza
One of the best things about having lived in Chicago for fifteen years was being introduced to Chicago pizza. Be it deep dish or stuffed it is not easily forgotten. It’s a pizza with substance, an eat me with a knife and fork kind of pizza, a pizza you will have to sit down and…
Turkey Burger with Cranberry Sauce
With the arrival of the new year many of us attempt to lighten our meals after having eaten so much calorie laden food throughout the holidays. For me, to succeed in this effort the food must remain satisfying. The goal is to lose the calories without losing the taste. Easier said then done! With the…
Mushroom Barley Soup
I’ve been making variations of this Mushroom Barley Soup for as many years as I can remember. This hearty soup is a meal in itself when served with a loaf of crusty bread. This particular version is made with chicken broth, but vegetarians could substitute a vegetable broth or stock. It’s a simple soup to…
Favorite Meat Loaf
When you can open an eight hundred and seventy-seven page hard bound cookbook automatically to the page that holds the recipe for your favorite meat loaf, it’s a good bet you’ve been to that page many, many times before. This is the case with my copy of James Beard’s American Cookery, and his recipe for…
Chili
With the weather turning chilly, one’s thoughts naturally turn to Chili! There are endless varieties of this warming comfort food… with ground beef or cubed beef, or no beef at all, with or without tomatoes, with or without beans, with beer or without, and the choice of spices too many to mention. I know there…
Sheila’s Roasted Potato Leek Soup
It’s amazing to me as one season ends and the next begins how I’m always ready for the change. As eager as I am in the spring to get gardening again after a long winter I’m just as anxious in the fall to put the garden to bed for another season. As the annuals and…
Macaroni And Cheese
Mac and cheese, the ultimate comfort food…there’ s something about that combination of melted cheese and pasta that takes us all back to our individual childhoods. Whether your mom made it from a box or from scratch didn’t really matter…the end result was always yummy and fun to eat. My mother, who was an excellent…