Grow and Behold Foods
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Rib-Eye with Balsamic Mustard Pan Sauce
Mouth-watering Rib-Eye steaks and a velvety sauce — all in one pan! Continue reading
Seared Pepper Steak with Pimiento Chimichurri
Pepper Beef Steak gets a fun new spin with a chimichuri of cilantro, pimiento, balsamic and mustard (leave out the latter for a great kosher for Passover recipe). Continue reading
Savory London Broil with Avocado Relish
London Broil with fresh vegetable relish and a sauce you might want to won’t be able to get enough of! Continue reading
Porter-Pomegranate Braised Kalakel
This Kalakel recipe with beer and pomegranate juice cooks up fork-tender, and pairs well with tangy rhubarb chutney.
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Hot Dogs and Homemade Buns
The only thing that could possibly make an all natural, nitrate-free hot dog more exciting is a simple home made bun. Continue reading
Chili Fiesta
A quick and easy shabbat meal involving ground beef, a crock pot, and a box of Fiesta tacos. Continue reading
A Mexican Recipe for Osso Buco
A piquant latin preparation of this slow-cooker classic, with roasted tomatoes, roasted garlic, caramelized onions and chipotles en adobo. Continue reading
Meatballs and Spaghetti
It’s the first week of January and the gym is packed. I find it funny that in just one month the number of these New Year’s resolvers will dwindle leaving more room to move in the gym classes. But for those of you planning a marathon of work outs, you’re going to need some fuel … Continue reading
Blueberry Glazed Flanken
Blueberry season may be long gone, but this winter weather that is upon us is perfect for spending time in a kitchen warmed by multiple pots burbling away on your stove. This chilly weather compelled me to recall a typically summer favorite – Blueberry glazed flanken/short ribs. I usually put together this blueberry and meat … Continue reading
Root Beer Spruces up the Crock Pot
Some days when I get stuck late at work I start to itch to get home. I know Sam is there waiting to greet me with a warm hug. Similarly, I get that feeling when I’ve put up a dinner in the crock pot in the morning before leaving for work. I think about it … Continue reading
Autumn-Perfect Cider-Braised Chicken
Living in Harvard Square I am accustomed to over-achievers. Last spring students took it upon themselves to clear out a grassy area for an edible vegetable garden. I enjoyed watching the garden’s progress and its colorful output – a rainbow of Swiss chard, lolling sunflowers bigger than my head and tomatoes galore. And I wasn’t … Continue reading
Lime Chicken Kabobs – Inherited Taste?
In truth the lime and cilantro in the dish sway it towards Mexican cuisine, but the scallions, soy, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar careens it towards Asian cuisine. And when you marinate anything in garlic and ginger, broil it up and serve it with some reduced sauce, you are sure to get a mouth-full of umami. Continue reading
Black and Orange Chicken
The whole chicken gets rubbed with freshly grated orange peel and dried chili powder – it really takes on the citrus and piquant flavors in the thirty minutes that you allow it to rest before grilling. Continue reading
Roasted Chicken with Fingerling Potatoes and Beet Greens
Here’s a delightful way to use both the beet greens and stalks for a summery roast chicken. Continue reading
Grilled Chicken with Peach BBQ Sauce
A delicious recipe perfect for the height of summer peach season! Continue reading
Chicken Jambalaya: A Southern Souvenir
I’ve got a theory about souvenirs – they ought to strike a balance between unique-and practical. In recent years more of my souvenir purchases are finding their way into my kitchen – like the metal tortilla press from San Diego and the glass olive oil cruet from Paris – I bought them in a shop … Continue reading
Exotic Chicken Salad
If this week is about anything, it’s about purging. Whether it’s shedding the extra pounds that snuck on over the winter, organizing parts of our home that lay fallow, or the dreaded Passover cleaning. The latter can mean more than just vacuuming every crevice of your life – it can also mean eating up all … Continue reading
Dinner for Two: Honey Beer Chicken
It’s always a good thing when your husband comes in the door mid-week and says – “It smells like Shabbas in here!” and all you’ve made is dinner for the two of you with five simple ingredients. There are plenty of cookbooks on the market to guide you in making mouth watering recipes with small … Continue reading
’Tis the season to be competing
The first weekend in February two football teams duked it out on the field, the second weekend bedazzled music stars clamored for a Grammy and, on the final weekend of the month, our favorite tinsel town residents will get all fapitzed for the chance to go home with Oscar. But one competition that won’t be … Continue reading
