Creamy Chicken with Biscuits in a Slow Cooker

Creamy Chicken with Biscuits in a Slow Cooker only takes 15 minutes to prepare and it's ready for the slow cooker. It's so simple and yet so satisfying, the ultimate comfort food.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 15 mins
  • Cook: 6 hrs 5 mins
  • Yields: 6 Servings

Stir Fried Eggplant with Ponzu Sauce

Ponzu is a citrus-based sauce commonly used in Japanese cuisine. It is a tart mixture of citrus and soy sauce. This quick and easy Stir Fried Eggplant With Ponzu Sauce is a winning combination.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 5 mins
  • Cook: 10 mins
  • Yields: 4 Servings

Pumpkin Popovers

I ran across this recipe for Harry Connick Jr's Pumpkin Popovers in Good Housekeeping. I happen to love popovers. These are easily made in the blender and poured into a popover or muffin pan. Yum!

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 5 mins
  • Cook: 1 hr
  • Yields: 6 Servings

Chicken with Saffron and Rice

This recipe is from Williams-Sonoma. It’s a traditional Spanish dish of chicken and rice that is seasoned with saffron. The saffron makes this dish. Saffron is a spice derived from the flower of the Crocus. It’s one of the world’s most expensive spices by weight.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 20 mins
  • Cook: 1 hr 20 mins
  • Yields: 6 - 8 Servings

Cashew Chicken in a Slow Cooker

This Cashew Chicken in a Slow Cooker can't get any easier. It only takes 10 minutes to prepare for the crockpot. It's great for a busy weeknight meal.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 10 mins
  • Cook: 4 hrs
  • Yields: 4 - 6 Servings

Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Maple Gastrique

The best thing about learning how to make a gastrique is that it’s extremely easy to do. It makes a simple dish look like it just came across the kitchen line of a four-star restaurant. A basic gastrique is a reduction of vinegar and sugar thick becomes a thick syrupy sauce. These Glazed Sweet Potatoes with Maple Gastrique is a perfect example. The tangy-sweet glaze works really well with these sweet potatoes.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 15 mins
  • Cook: 20 mins
  • Yields: 6 Servings

“16 Bean” Pasta e Fagioli

This “16 Bean” Pasta e Fagioli is from Ina Garten’s new cookbook, Cooking for Jeffery. Pasta e fagioli, meaning "pasta and beans", is a traditional Italian dish. Pastafazoola, a 1927 novelty song by Van and Schenck, capitalizes on the Neapolitan pronunciation in the rhyme, "Don't be a fool, eat pasta fazool", and the Dean Martin song "That's Amore" includes the rhyme "When the stars make you drool, just like pasta fazool, that's amore".

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 20 mins
  • Cook: 1 hr 50 mins
  • Yields: 6 Servings

Candied Oranges

These Candied Oranges are great for holiday entertaining. You can use them as a garnish on cocktails or dip them in melted chocolate!

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 10 mins
  • Cook: 2 hrs 30 mins
  • Yields: Makes about 1½ dozen

Chicken Noodle Soup

I have made chicken noodle soup for many sick clients over the years. There is something so cathartic about making soup.It's easy on the stomach and it is just what your body needs. Grandmother’s chicken soup was and is the ultimate cure for colds and new medical research says that chicken soup really does work just like Grandma always said it did.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 2 hrs
  • Cook: 20 mins
  • Yields: Makes 2 quarts

Pasta with Roasted Butternut Squash, Shallots & Sage

My husband made me this Pasta with Roasted Butternut Squash, Shallots & Sage for Sunday lunch last week. It has all my favorite quintessential autumnal ingredients.

By Leslie Blythe

  • Prep: 15 mins
  • Cook: 45 mins
  • Yields: 4 Servings