Cooking Method: Simmering
Spring Vegetable Soup
This Spring Vegetable Soup is the perfect thing to “spring clean” your diet. Fruits and Vegetables that are in-season reap the most nutritional value. This Since lima beans are difficult to find fresh, I used frozen beans. You can substitute fresh fava beans in this soup.
By - Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 30 mins
- Yields: 6 Servings
Skillet Chili Mac
Chili mac (sometimes referred to as American chop suey, beef-a-roni, Cincinnati chili, goulash, Johnny Marzetti, macaroni and beef, and Midwest chili) is a dish prepared using chili and macaroni or spaghetti, which is often topped or intermingled with cheese. This Skillet Chili Mac is one of our family favorites.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 30 mins
- Yields: 4 - 6 Servings
Chocolate Espresso Mousse
This Chocolate Espresso Mousse is an elegant, smooth, airy and chocolatey dessert. It's a great make-ahead dessert for a dinner party.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 1 hrs
- Yields: 8 Servings
Hot Fudge Sauce
A friend of mine gave me three 4 pound chocolate bars. That's a lot of chocolate. Hot Fudge Sauce seemed like a good use for it. Let me tell you, it was seriously delicious! I will be making more very soon.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 10 mins
- Yields: Makes 2 cups
Lemon & Dill Chicken
Lemon and dill is an amazing combination. This Lemon & Dill Chicken is quick and delicious and goes really well with orzo and a salad.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 15 mins
- Yields: 4 Servings
Spaghetti with Lemon and Olive Oil (al Limone)
My family is mad keen on anything lemon. When I found this recipe for Spaghetti with Lemon and Olive Oil (al Limone), I had to make it. It has loads of flavor and yet it's so simple.
- Prep: 10 mins
- Cook: 20 mins
- Yields: 4 - 6 Servings
Chicken Big Mamou on Rice
Chicken Big Mamou is a recipe from Paul Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen. My aunt Marjorie used to make this dish. She modified it, instead of one pound of butter, she uses 4 tablespoons and she also scaled back the cayenne. My cousin (in-law) Lisette made this for us last summer. She is a phenomenal cook and sent me her modifications. The original recipe is served over pasta, but I like it over rice.
- Yields: 6 - 8 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.
- Prep: 20 mins
- Cook: 1 hrs 20 mins
- Yields: 6 - 8 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.
- 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".
- Prep: 20 mins
- Cook: 1 hrs 50 mins
- Yields: 6 Servings
