Recipe News: Reader Recipe: Greek Penne and Chicken
Audreystar says she's been on a Greek cooking kick lately, and she's not alone. I've also been somewhat fixated on feta cheese recently, and this Mediterranean mix of chicken, artichoke hearts, tomatoes, onions, parsley, and feta looks incredibly yummy
Betty A. McWilliams of Dowagiac passes along this seasonal recipe. She says the biscuits are "delicious, light and fluffy. All my friends have this favorite recipe. It was my husband's mother's and passed down."
Recipe News: Chill out with 3 recipes for summer chicken dishes
Have a hunger for Italian tonight? Thai? French? The humble chicken -- recognizable almost anywhere -- can satisfy your culinary cravings. Just choose from this first-class flight of chicken dishes inspired by a world of cuisines.
You may think the only way to eat a gourmet pizza with a crispy, smoky crust is to order it at a restaurant, but you can achieve the same flavor and texture in your pizzas by cooking them on the grill.
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The Gamberian, Sauteed shrimp with pesto and tomato
The S'more Graham crackers, chocolate, and marshmallow
OK, put down the celery stick and stop crying. With a few simple substitutions, you can not only make traditional recipes healthier, you can have your cake and eat it, too (and what good is cake if you can’t eat it?).
You can make any recipe healthier by reducing the amount of fat, salt and sugar and increasing the fiber. All it takes is a little trial and error.
“My parents love meatloaf, and I make it with turkey instead of ground beef to lighten up the traditional recipe,” said Cindy Brown, of Asheville. “You get a lot of the flavor without the fat.”
I have a number of old Canadian cookbooks given to me by family and friends or scooped up at flea markets. I have old church cookbooks, some community ones and a special treasure: The Home Cookbook, published in 1887 by the “Ladies of Toronto and chief cities and towns in Canada.”
On June 7, I plan to take them into Liz Driver at The Cookbook Store (850 Yonge St.) in Toronto. From 1 to 3 p.m., she will be assessing the historical value of old cookbooks. Liz is the curator of Campbell House Museum in Toronto, the former president of the Culinary Historians of Ontario and the author of Culinary Landmarks: A Bibliography of Canadian Cookbooks, 1825-1949 (University of Toronto Press).
The canny housewives of the 19th and early 20th centuries were the forerunners of how we wish to eat today.
They purchased fresh seasonal ingredients, often organic and straight from the farm, and used simple, tasty cooking methods, as their surprisingly good original recipes reveal.
Recipe News: GET READY FOR A SIZZLING GRILLING SUMMER
May is Hamburger Month. However, it also the advent of summer, the perfect season to put on a grilling apron and fire up the grill during the warm months when people love to be outdoors. Morton’s The Steakhouse shares with all grilling enthusiasts its all-American favorite the “Million Dollar” hamburger and other grilling tips. All you need to do is follow the recipe, and you can have this signature burger right in your own back yard for family and friends.
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Morton’s “Million Dollar” Hamburger recipe for Six Hearty Appetites
Recipe News: Beginner’s Box: Great pasta recipes are as close as your computer
Looking for some great seasonal pasta recipes? Subscribe to the Barilla Web site (www.barillaus.com) and you’ll regularly receive terrific recipes for hot and cold pasta dishes.
The site is especially helpful for beginner cooks. Not only are there loads of recipes for all cooking levels, but each featured recipe includes a photo of the type of pasta. In no time at all, you’ll know the difference between ravioli, rotini, rigatoni and more.
Most featured recipes generally include seasonal ingredients. For example, May’s featured recipe is whole-grain spaghetti with crispy pan¬cetta and asparagus. The dish teams pasta with fresh as¬paragus, cherry tomatoes, savory Italian pancetta and freshly grated Parmigiano cheese.
Recipe News: 5 Idaho chefs offer recipes for your grill
Let the grilling begin. I find that most chefs who spend their time in the kitchen at work, love their outdoor grills at home. So, we asked five area chefs to give us their favorite way to grill. We have a mix of rubs and sauces, spicy and rich, salmon and lamb, and surely at least one of these recipes will appeal to you.
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Recipe News: Whole-Wheat Spaghetti with Lemon, Basil, and Salmon
This recipe from Giada De Laurentiis of the Food Network is not only fresh and easy, it's healthy, too.
