Next time you’re in the mood for a bit of heat on the dinner plate, let me suggest this Spaghetti Arribiata. Arribiata, in Italian means “angry”, and this recipe certainly fits the bill. The sauce is essentially a simple marinara sauce, that gets spiked with some hot chili flakes and a bit of red...
When it’s late, or I just don’t feel like cooking, it’s great to have a few recipes under my belt, that literally take 15 minutes, and almost no effort to make. This Lemon Spaghetti recipe is just that. While the rich tomato based spaghetti recipes are great, sometimes you can use the simplest ingredients to enhance
The hardest thing about publishing a recipe for Chili Con Carne, is that there is no ONE recipe for chili con carne! It’s one of those recipes, that is so customizable, it’s almost more a collection of loose techniques, or even a style of cooking, rather than a specific recipe. I even change my recipe just about every time I cook it.
I love a good chicken pasta recipe. Both ingredients are easy to cook, and are great blank canvases that work with all kinds of other flavors. Here I show you a recipe for Chicken Penne Pesto, which has become a staple in my house. Pesto sauce is one of my favorite pasta sauces, for it’s great...
Celery is a humble vegetable. Generally relegated to supporting rolls, or even simply disappearing into the dish giving all for the great good. However, this Celery Soup Recipe shows that even the humble celery Can stand on it own...Can be the star…Can shine like no other…ok, I know I’m...
As a kid, my mother cooked spaghetti sauce. And it was great, but there was one recipe and one recipe only. Over the years, I’ve come to discover the wide variety of different pasta sauce recipes, and one of my favorites is Arrabiata Sauce. Arrabiata sauce in preparation is not much different than...
I’ve got another great recipe, to add to your (hopefully growing) list of great boneless, skinless chicken breast recipes. This one an Italian Classic - Chicken Marsala . I just started making this dish a few years ago, and it’s developed in a pretty consist hit in my house. And frankly, once you...
While I love my “goto” friend the boneless skinless chicken breast, sometimes I just need to go caveman, and tear some meat off the bone. And while I love whole roasted chickens, there is an in between step we shouldn’t gloss over. Here I show you a recipe for Roasted Chicken Breast (the bone in,...
One the greatest by-products of roasting a whole chicken (which I do as a pretty frequent Sunday meal), is the opportunity to make Homemade Chicken Soup with the leftover bones & carcass. Not sure if there is a food that feels more comforting and homey than Chicken Soup. Just about every family...
Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts….again? Sure they are easy, inexpensive, and easily available, but.....they are so common they just start to get boring. Fortunately, with a few universal cooking techniques, you can easily find over 1001 recipes for them (sounds like a book title). For all the...
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