I am a good girlfriend. A very good girlfriend. The Boy had noticed when a fellow friend in town tweeted about buffalo chicken calzones she made that were “fugly” (in her own words). He loves buffalo chicken and pizza (like most men), so of course…

I had some leftover roasted chicken to use up and was in the mood for Mexican so I decided to bake some flautas. I chopped up the chicken with peppers, onion, garlic, cilantro and seasonings before stuffing it into flour tortillas. I served these tasty flautas with some hot jalapeno jelly for my husband and I while my kids had them with salsa, guacamole and sour cream. They were a huge hit with

If this recipe looks at all familiar, it’s because I have posted it on my blog once before nearly a year ago.  I finally decided to take down the old post and create a whole new one for this recipe for a couple of reasons. I make this meal often an…

 
I bought a new cookbook. Pure India. I’m not sure if it’s sold in the US as well. It’s rare for me to buy a cook book—I prefer coming up with my own recipes—but with Indian food being pretty far outside my comfort zone, I figured I was better off starting with tried and true recipes.
The first thing I noticed was the sheer amount [...]

A while ago when I made the green tomato and jalapeno jam I had been planning on using it in a baked chicken dish but other things came up and I forgot about all it. I was rummaging through my fridge the other day when I came across a jar of the jam a…

Updated. Originally posted in 2006.

This cashew chicken recipe is one of my favorites on the site, and not just because it hails from my friend Marc Canter who I don’t see nearly enough. I first posted it several years ago after a raucous and memorable dinner that Marc prepared, accompanied by his wife Lisa and their kids Mimi and Lucy (any dinner with little kids tends to be raucous and memorable, don’t you agree?) Marc had been serenading me with stories of his famous cashew chicken, his trademark dish, tested and perfected over decades of crashing at the homes of old and new friends in exchange for his cooking. One of the things I like so much about Marc’s cashew chicken is that it is a good base recipe from which one can easily expand. Several people suggested the addition of some ginger and onion greens, which I agree works well and I’ve added in this updated version as an option. I’ve also enjoyed it with some fresh chopped pineapple thrown in, giving it some sweetness. Others have added vegetables such as broccoli or snow peas. Note that the amounts are all approximate. Marc doesn’t really measure; like most natural cooks I know, he “eyeballs” it. But with these ingredients, in approximately the right proportions, it’s hard to go wrong.

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On the way home from school, I stopped at a local grocery store to pick up a rotisserie chicken.My younger daughter said, “You say the chickens are really small here, and they’re expensive.”I replied, “Well, I’m not going to drive to Costco to get a ch…

 
One of the things I found most difficult in my years as a low carber was having to come up with dishes that were great for low as well as high carbers. Food that’s not only flavorful and looks good (yup, that really matters to me) but is low carb and (relatively) low fat is not always the easiest [...]

I love a good rice dish cooked in a claypot. This is the second rice dish I have made using a claypot. I have posted the Tom Yum Prawns Claypot Rice recipe back in May. Tom Yum Prawns Claypot RiceClaypot rice dishes make easy and wonderful one-pot dinn…

Whenever I need a quick salad or side dish, I go to myrecipes.com. I just type in a keyword and I always find a recipe that I want to make. The recipes are rated, like many other sites, so I can go and read what people thought about a certain recipe …