THIS RECIPE FOR POULET A LA CREME IS THE EASIEST RECIPE I HAVE EVER COOKED It is astonishingly simple! It requires just three main ingredients–chicken, mushrooms, and cream–and the time it takes to make is 30 minutes–most of which is watching it bubble on the…

Ina Garten’s Coq au Vin Recipe: French Comfort Food in under 2 hours. Titled “Be Ready When the Luck Happens”,  the book takes Ina’s legions of fans from a surprisingly unhappy childhood (she and her mother did not get along) to her eventually happy marriage…

  When I walked into the Iacono Farm store, the phone was ringing off the hook.  It was a day in advance of the weekend and everyone on the East End of Long Island was bound and determined to serve Iacono Chicken (106 Long Lane,…

ERIC KIM’S LEMON PEPPER CHICKEN WINGS ARE A BREEZE TO MAKE This easy recipe for Eric Kim’s Lemon Pepper Chicken Wings is a wonderful take on one of our all-time favorite foods. Chicken Wings! And we know our wings.  There are no less than 8…

GRILLED OR BROILED, CHICKEN AL PASTOR, IS THE PERFECT COMBINATION OF SWEET, SPICY AND TANGY FLAVOR Al Pastor means “in the style of the shepherd.”  Though it is arguably Mexico’s finest street food, the dish has its roots in the Lebanese immigrant community in Mexico.…

Bottled Green Goddess Dressing and Rotisserie Chicken creates a Spring Salad that will take your breath away. This salad is a salute to Spring. Green Goddess Dressing—a mixture of mayo, sour cream, anchovies, lemon juice, garlic, parsley, and chives makes it creamy rich.  But the…

This Valentine’s Day, we bring you Chicken La Tulipe and Valentine’s advice from one Jonathon Reynolds.  This Valentine’s Day recipe for Chicken La Tulipe is remarkably easy to make. It achieves the crispy-brown perfection of a great roast chicken. That would be good all by…

 Gyoza, Asian Dumplings, Greens, and Chile Butter make for an easy and intriguing one-skillet dinner. Garlicky Greek yogurt is topped with Trader Joe’s* Gyoza, a handful of spinach, toasted pine nuts, and finally, a chile-spiced drizzle of butter seasoned with mild chile pepper, smoked paprika,…

“Sometimes you want chicken to taste like chicken” and One Skillet Chicken does just that. So wrote J.T. of Madison Wisconsin of this wonderful recipe when it appeared in Bon Appetit. Here all you do is salt and pepper bone-in skin on, chicken thighs and…

Crispy and Creamy– Two Great Textures in one Quick Chicken Dinner This chicken dish made it to the table in about 50 minutes.  It satisfies our credo that the only reason to leave the skin on chicken is to serve it crispy.  And the recipe…

This Chocolate Souffle is a glorious deep dive into dark chocolate With its almost molten center, an aroma of rich chocolate bursts from the dish the moment your spoon breaks its crisp top.  The whipped cream only adds to the sensuality of this dessert.  And…

THIS INSTANT POT RECIPE IS WORTH THE PRICE OF THE POT Let’s face it. The Instant Pot takes up a lot of geography—especially in our New York City Kitchen with its no-bigger-than-a-bread-box pantry.  But if there’s  one thing that makes an Instant Pot worth buying,…

A Balinese Chef shares the secret to his Chicken Satay, the national dish of Indonesia The Four Seasons Sayan is the epitome of luxury on the banks of a river the deeply spiritual Balinese consider sacred: The Ayung.  In its kitchens, Chef Wayan Sutariawan, a…

We wait all year for Figs to appear. Then we celebrated their brief season with two superb dishes. To us, few things are as delicious as fresh figs, straight from someone’s garden. First, there’s their wonderful scent. What awaits inside these little purple tear drops…