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 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,…
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…
If you think a Pot Pie is more of a winter offering, think again. This one has Spring written all over it. It’s filled with fresh Spring vegetables and there’s no heavy cream sauce. The recipe relies on a simple Chicken Stock sauce. It is…
Rome’s favorite and most famous pasta dish gets a major makeover. When I lived in Rome, I can’t count how often I would order this dish. At least once a week, I would sit down to a bowl of this pasta. Just four ingredients made…
Of all the foods we miss, simple Mexican food is high on our list. We are spoiled in the city living just a block from a Tacqueria that turns out Mexican favorites so good and so inexpensive, I seldom bother making them at home. But…
A comforting bowl of soup you can get on the table in under 30 minutes Isn’t it time for you to take a break? If you’re like millions of us, you never cooked so many meals in your life. And it’s breakfast, lunch, and dinner.…
The Astonishing Allure of Thai Cooking Combined with the Irresistibly-priced Costco Rotisserie Chicken I cannot seem to pass up Costco’s Rotisserie Chicken. At $4.99, I marvel at how it’s actually priced lower than its raw counterpart a few yards away in the store. But regardless…
As much as I love Chicken Pot Pie, I was looking to kick things up and bring some new flavors to this old family favorite. And old is an appropriate word. Pot Pies have a history going back to ancient Greece. The Greeks cooked meats…
An old favorite takes on new flavors in just about 60 minutes Out here in the Hamptons, the day after Labor Day is called “Tumbleweed Tuesday”. It is the day when the place completely clears out as everyone heads back to school and work. It…
Starting this blog off with an entirely new design involved a lot of trips down Memory Lane. It was a very long and complex project just to get the old posts transferred over. Each and every one of them had to be reviewed and the…
Our key visual, above, shows our Barbecue Chicken French Bread Pizza with Smoked Mozarella Chicken Cheesesteaks with Peppers A bargain at $4.99 Somewhere in the back of my mind, I recall reading that there’s a food site with over 400 recipes devoted to a single…
Costco’s $4.99 Chicken In our continuing series of quick weeknight dinners leading up to Christmas, I couldn’t ignore the charms of Rotisserie Chicken. I cannot go into Costco without buying one of their birds, beautifully cooked and an amazing bargain at $4.99. I’ve made this…
It’s awfully close to putting-away-the-pot-pie-recipes time. But this one is so good, I hope it gets in under the wire and if not, do save it for a rainy day. It’s that good. The reason I rushed to make it was that I’d managed to…
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