There aren’t a lot of real easy recipes out there I like better than chicken peperonata. Simple, too. You cut up some chicken, add onion, garlic, tomatoes and a boatload of peppers, simmer the whole shebang and voila… peperonata. That’s the recipe in a nutshell, mind you. Anyway, the flavor this simple combination of ingredients gives your poultry or meat is astonishing. Especially grilled meats. But I’ll be more than…
This is, without a shadow of a doubt, the best roast chicken I’ve had in quite some time. I received the recipe from a friend of mine who was kind enough to attach a photo to her email. It looked phenomenal. Hunger-inducing. Had me running out the door collecting ingredients that same afternoon. And then I tried it for the first time and let me tell you; this is paradisiacal!…
Here’s one you must try, provided you have a slow cooker. I’ve gone crazy with my crock-pot this past week, and this recipe—along with a gazillion other ones—turned out to be a real keeper. Crazy simple, hardly any prepping involved, but so tasty you’ll want to lick the plate clean. The scent alone had me drooling all day long. It’s a recipe that came with the crock-pot … but since I…
It wasn’t until a friend of mine casually asked me what I had put into the chicken casserole that made it so creamy without making it greasy, that it dawned on me this is more an American than a European way of cooking. Using a concentrated soup as the basis of your casserole—turning it into a sauce like that—isn’t really common in Dutch cooking. Actually, it’s really uncommon. I love it,…
I desperately wanted to do something: cook, shoot a posting, do anything but lie on the couch or in bed with my foot propped up a stack of pillows feeling sorry for myself. Best way is to distract myself so I started jotting down recipe ideas. But as much as I wanted to, I just couldn’t prep the food and shoot the photos all by myself. My guy, who has…
The Kefta Mkouara wasn’t all I cooked in the tagine this week. I still had a few chicken breasts that needed to be used up. Now one of my favorite foods is curried chicken, so I knew I would add a fair amount of curry powder for starters and take it from there. Then it dawned on me: I had to try to combine the chicken with a more low-key…