Fooled Again

Braised Chicken with Spring Fettuccini

Braised Chicken with Spring Fettuccine: It’s funny, even when you have a clearly defined plan the final results can often be positive surprises in the end. The seasons have this way of steering my subconscious, especially in cooking. Last week … Continue reading

Dancing With Simplicity

Chicken Marsala with Capellini

Chicken Marsala with Capellini: Simplicity is sometimes one of the more difficult things to achieve. Whether it’s distilling masses of complex concepts into a simple analogy that anyone’s grandmother can understand, or a gourmet weeknight dinner pulled from the crowded … Continue reading

Feeling Chili

Spicy Chicken Chili

Spicy Chicken Chili: It’s yet another tranquil New England day with snow falling slowing through the crisp air, and the need for something spicy and warm fuels our inspiration. When we first made this chili last weekend, it tasted so … Continue reading

Seoul Relief

Asian Chicken Noodle Soup

Asian Chicken Noodle Soup: Why is it that each January always brings a wrath of increasingly resilient viral infections that spread across the globe like a broken bag of popcorn kernels falling across a kitchen floor. It is without fail … Continue reading

A Kick in the Wheat

Crispy Chicken Tenders with Spicy Romesco: I dreamt I returned to the Paleolithic era and was amazingly fit and trim from burning so many calories because I had to chase my food with a spear before I could eat it. … Continue reading

Unusual Bedfellows

Sundried Tomato Chicken with Spinach Rice: Foodgawker is a magical wonderland of foodie inspiration. If nothing else, the simple scrolling through mountains of imaginative and well photographed dishes from all around the globe is a pleasure in itself, even if … Continue reading

Evil Is What Evil Does

Macaroni and Cheese with Crispy Capon: As I sit quietly gazing through the window, light snow is falling slowly on a beautiful New England morning. That kind of fluffy slow-motion snow that instantly beckons for a cozy fire, warm blanket, … Continue reading

Tastes Like Chicken

Cajun Coffee Glazed Capon: In a world where there are more food bloggers than there are Fall shopping catalogs stuffed in mailboxes, you’d think there would be more chatter about nontraditional Thanksgiving menus. But Thanksgiving screams tradition like tryptophan-coma-induced football … Continue reading

Getting Figgy with It

Apple & Fig Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Mushroom Sauce: One of the most difficult things I find is “not cooking” what seems to be a normal quantity of food for just two people. From the one pot simmering dishes, to … Continue reading

You Got Rooster in My Wine

Coq au Vin with Autumn Vegetables: An early morning hike past the apple orchards and our woodlands rich in color triggered a flurry of autumn inspired dinners, but one quickly rose to the top. I have never made Coq au … Continue reading