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Life-Changing Garlic Butter Chicken Thighs with a Corn, Tomato and Basil Salad
A New Way to Cook a Favorite Ingredient and an end of Summer Salad to serve alongside. Andrew’s sister Lauren and I have a great time finding comments on recipes that are off the wall. These are from people who cooked an entirely different dish.…
Chocolate Peanut Butter Salted Caramel Mousse Pie
You don’t have to be a Peanut Butter Lover to love this pie…but if you are, you’ll be in heaven. You either love peanut butter or not. Our friend Michael is a devotee of the stuff in any form. Recently he prevailed upon Andrew to…
Recipe for Perfect Happiness…A Free Trip to St. Bart’s!
Come November you can experience St. Bart’s for Free! As many readers know, Andrew and I have spent 29 years heading to St. Barthelemy, F.W.I for our winter break. There’s nowhere on earth like it—this brilliant little jewel of an island is France dropped into…
Ina Garten’s Fresh Peach Cake
There’s nothing more luscious than a fresh summer peach. On Long Island, this year’s crop has been even more luscious than usual. Before we switch over to Fall’s Apples, bake this Fresh Peach Cake. It’s from Ina Garten so right off you know it’s going…
Sam Sifton’s Pork Chops in Cherry Pepper Sauce
I am a sucker for “What to Cook This Week” from the New York Times. Here’s one reason why. Very often this email from the NYTimes is the work of Sam Sifton. Sifton is billed as the founding editor of NYT Cooking. And Sam is…
Melissa Clark’s Buttery Crab Pasta with Cherry Tomatoes and Chervil
“Dinner in French”, Melissa Clark’s latest Cookbook is filled with great, easy recipes. Confession time. For some reason, I associate French food with cooler temperatures. Give me Oxtail Bourguignon in October, my first bowl of Onion Soup at first frost. But I’ve been raring to…
Oven-Barbecued Chicken
The joy of great Barbecued Chicken without a Grill or Barbecue—just an ordinary oven. Let’s face it: Not everyone can enjoy cooking in the great outdoors over Labor Day weekend. Apartment dwellers for instance. To be perfectly honest, there are even people who could grill…
King Kullen Coleslaw
If you love Coleslaw, this version from our local supermarket is well-worth making. What is summer without coleslaw? Who can imagine Fried Chicken without it? As Colonel Sanders himself said, “It’s always a tough decision between that, the Mac and Cheese, and the mashed potatoes,…
Giant Summer Tomato Tart
Because you can never serve too many tomatoes this time of year. I realize this recipe comes right on the heels of our wildly popular Heirloom Tomato Tart recipe, but we just cannot get enough of this year’s stellar crop of tomatoes. This tart first…
Sautéed Corn and Cherry Tomatoes
I don’t remember a single recipe on Chewing The Fat that’s faster to make than this: 10 minutes. That’s all it takes to enjoy two of the greatest gifts of summer. Sweet corn, peaking now and Cherry Tomatoes overwhelming our garden right now. We wait…
This Week’s Bake: Plums and Almond Cream In a Variation of a Traditional French Frangipane Tart
John Barricelli, owner, baker, and chef of Connecticut’s SoNo Baking Company & Cafe, is no stranger on Chewing The Fat. We love his recipes. The Connecticut baker has two locations there. In Norwalk, it’s at 101 Water Street. And in Darien, it’s at 49…
Make one, make all: Parmesan-Crusted Chicken, Caponata, and Pesto Baguettes
This meal is a sum of its parts: A sublime Fried Chicken, my take on Sicily’s Caponata and great Pesto topping a crispy toasted Baguette. When I was looking around for something special to serve as a supper for guests, I came across this extraordinary…
Ina Garten’s Crunchy Noodle Salad
Ina Garten is one of those Food Mavens who can do no wrong. The Barefoot Contessa has by far the most popular posts on Chewing The Fat. Three of her recipes are in the Top Ten. And they’re never the same three—varying by the season. …
