From beautiful breakfasts to restaurant favorites, from sweets to spaghetti, and from new cooking techniques, here are the recipes our readers chose as their favorites this year. Chewing The Fat published 124 recipes in 2022. Some of them came in multiples: 7 recipes for cookies…
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…
If you love the way this looks, you’ll be bowled over by how easy it is to make. When I first saw the prototype for this recipe, I was immediately attracted to the way it looked. Rings of Jalapeno peppers sink into its crispy corn…
Packing plenty of heat, Truff Hot Sauce makes one terrific bowl of wings. When we received three Truff Hot Sauces for Christmas, we were impressed. The gift of our friends Monique and Curtis, we knew it would be special. Especially since what separates Truff from…
The allure of the Sheet Pan Dinner is on full display here. The convenience factor isn’t the only thing this cooking technique has going for it. Food actually tastes better when you use a sheet pan. Flavor intensifies because you are using three cooking techniques:…
On Chewing The Fat, the recipes really do come from everywhere. However in this case, it came from closer to home–our own kitchen. I had an intense desire for a Pork Chop and not one of those boneless half inch deals swathed in plastic wrap. …
In the pantheon of amazingly quick and easy things to cook, there is the salmon filet. This lovely rosy fish cooks in all of 6 minutes depending on how pink you like it. And 6 ounces is a gracious serving. We can have the discussion…
No American producer of Goat Cheese is more responsible for its ever- increasing popularity than California’s Laura Chenel’s. Starting in the 1970s, Chenel’s became America’s first commercial producer of this extraordinarily healthful cheese. Everything from its calorie count – 30 to 40{7764cd352edcf19b608e75b52a560f8f0623df8defec59f0ed185161f2ba1413} lower than cow’s milk…
Did you know it was National Nutrition Month? Neither did I. But as I was putting together this recipe, which is my own invention borrowed from several sources, one of my fellow recipe writers informed me. In a holdover from Michelle Obama’s time in the…
I posted this recipe last week and the response was terrific, particularly on www.sbhonline.com which is website completely given over to our favorite island. When I did so, one of the most prolific contributors to the blog, AndyNap added something terrific to…
My latest article for CruisingJournal has just been published…
