Cooking Method: Simmering
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.
By - 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 hr
- 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 hr 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 hr 50 mins
- Yields: 6 Servings
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.
- Prep: 2 hrs
- Cook: 20 mins
- Yields: Makes 2 quarts
