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…

Spain’s Gift to Gastronomy, Paella, is an amazingly adaptable dish that belongs on your summer table. Yes, there is an official version of this beautiful dish.  But we discovered you can pretty much make paella from whatever you want. The key is the round-grained rice…

Summer Cooking doesn’t get much easier than this. When I saw Sirloin at our supermarket for $2.99 a lb., I couldn’t let it pass by.  When we were on a limited budget, I gravitated towards this cut of beef for its down-to-earth price and great…

Let’s celebrate Meatless Monday with this fantastic Vegetable Curry Ellie Krieger, the host of Public Television’s  “Ellie’s Real Good Food”, is an expert on healthy eating.  A graduate of Cornell and Columbia Universities, she holds degrees in Clinical Nutrition from both. Her claim to fame…

Summer and Salad Days are on the way…but in the meantime. Confession time:  We’d been looking at a lot of very beige posts on Chewing The Fat. So when this glorious-looking salad appeared in Food and Wine, we had to make it. It’s from a…

From Food & Wine’s ” Chef’s Easy Weeknight Dinners” Jonathan Waxman’s Soy and Ginger Pork Chops Andrew and I often get asked whether we use our hundreds of cookbooks. The truth is, we read cookbooks the way other people read novels. Cover to cover.  But…

Today we thought we’d take you along on a Wine Tour in Tuscany, bring Guanciale home and make the best Carbonara ever! Carbonara: “Hot pasta tossed with a creamy sauce of raw beaten eggs, accentuated with crisp bits of Guanciale and finished with a shower…

If there’s one bad thing about Food Blogging it’s this: You never get to eat the same thing twice. Once it’s out in the blogosphere, it’s cooked. Literally. Today’s recipe haunted us—it was so good! And it was in our old recipe format. What a…

A perfect “Pasta Night” recipe. Unlike Meatless Monday or Taco Tuesday, Pasta Night is our own creation.  It’s the night when nothing is more comforting than a bowl of pasta with a really terrific sauce.  Inspired by Premio Sausages 1 lb. packages that mix both…

As I tucked into my 4th Costco Chicken sandwich, I realized this $4.99 purchase was the only thing I’d eaten at home since October 6th. That is when friends hadn’t rescued me by inviting me out.  But all four nights when they hadn’t, it was…

Don’t miss out on this year’s farm-fresh tomatoes. Make this now. I cannot get enough of this year’s tomato crop.  I would eat them every day if they all tasted like our Long Island tomatoes this year.  And when I made this recipe from Food…

I confess. I am not the greatest fan of the Grill. The primal urge to grill every piece of meat I come across in the summer isn’t my idea of perfection.  To me, not everything tastes better when it’s emerged from a session with smoke…

Pasta once a week is a staple at our house.   We love the endless possibilities pasta presents.  With over 50 distinct types—even more when you add in the different sizes– that number goes even higher.  Today’s recipe is a riff on one in this…

This glorious dish is a cultural mash-up if we’ve ever cooked one. In our quest to find infinite numbers of ways to cook boneless skinless chicken breasts we came across this recipe.  It is a chicken cutlet that looks for all the world like any…