Off Topic: Sauted Chicken Breasts with Red Wine Pan Sauce

Off Topic: Sauted Chicken Breasts with Red Wine Pan Sauce

Once again from my favorite week night cookbook comes an amazing dish that is reliably accomplished in 30 minutes and is nice enough to serve at a dinner party.   Chicken breasts, in my opinion, are over-rated.  They became so popular during one of our many...

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Off Topic: Vegetable Lo Mein

Off Topic: Vegetable Lo Mein

Don’t you just love the holidays? And don’t you just love when they’re over? I adore all of the carb-heavy, fat-laden, coma-inducing foods I make around Christmas but when it’s over I am always left craving something that cuts through the...

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Off Topic: An Easy and Versatile Left-Over Solution

Off Topic: An Easy and Versatile Left-Over Solution

One of my favorite cookbooks for weeknight meals is Best 30-Minute Recipes from America’s Test Kitchen.  In the chapter entitled “Starting with Leftovers” I discovered the brilliance of the Tostada. To give you the short-cut, spray some corn...

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Off Topic: Creamy Skillet Penne with Mushrooms and Asparagus

Off Topic: Creamy Skillet Penne with Mushrooms and Asparagus

I was thinking about my friend Susan tonight when I made this. She recently told me that she would love a cookbook with easy one-dish meals and lots of vegetarian options. Like us, she is not a vegetarian but would like to eat less meat, and I think there is a growing...

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Recent Comments

  1. Just watched them make these on tv. I think I want to try them.

  2. I made these and used many of the comments to adjust several things. First I used 2-1/2 cups of flour.…