Quick and delicious weeknight meals
Here is a great weeknight soup recipe for a cold night. It is very flavorful, easy, and relatively kid-friendly! This is my first Paula Deen recipe ever. Most of her recipes use LOTS of butter but this one is very healthy. I added some ditalini …
Here is a delicious chocolaty cookie for the holidays! They are so chewy and rich! I had splurged and bought some Scharffen Berger Cocoa Powder which gave these cookies an amazing flavor. Next time I might try rolling half in regular sugar and the other …
Here’s a delicious Christmas cookie recipe that my friend Julia introduced me to — two cake-y chocolate cookies with peppermint flavored buttercream sandwiched between!  DELISH! The filling gets its flavor from peppermint extract, which you can find in most gourmet grocery stores. We brought the …
Here’s a quick and easy weeknight chicken dish that might just satisfy both adults and kids. The chicken has a wonderful crispness and the mustard-maple sauce provides a nice sweetness to the dish. I served the chicken with green beans and couscous for a well-balanced …
We had 3 couples over for dinner last night. Our dear friends Jason and Maria are expecting their second child on New Year’s Eve so we thought it would be fun to have them over — before things get even busier for them — to …
I was planning to make pork tenderloin but when I went to Dickson’s Farmstand — the new butcher in Chelsea Market that sources from local farms — the butcher convinced me to buy a pork sirloin roast instead. The sirloin roast is the leaner end …
I thought this would be a nice side dish for the pork (it can also serve as a standalone vegetarian entree). Because the pork had to cook at 350 degrees, I roasted the cauliflower, onion, caper combo earlier in the afternoon. I figured the cauliflower …
I made this cake for Thanksgiving last year and really enjoyed it so I decided to make for last night. The cake is incredibly moist — probably because of the milk in the batter — and the cranberry, cinnamon, allspice mixture provides a wonderful holiday …
For our dinner party last night, I put together a nice cheese plate with brie, goat cheese, and a mozzarella with sundried tomatoes and an platter with parmesan, salami, olives, and a feta spread. But I wanted to have a couple of other appetizers, so …
I was planning to make linzer cookies this weekend but on Friday I read an article in the Wall Street Journal Magazine about Martha Stewart and her daughter Alexis. At the end of the article, they included Alexis’s chocolate chip cookie recipe which Martha Stewart …