If you’re looking for a light, flavorful meal for a weeknight dinner, try these Asian lettuce wraps. You can even serve them in small lettuce cups as an appetizer. Make the filling ahead of time (with a friend of course) and simply reheat for a make-your-own lettuce wrap dinner. Recipe ...
Coffee Cake and Cookies
I kicked off the week with a massive chicken cooking date with Liz: we lightly fried and grilled chicken tenders and threw in a batch of quick split pea soup. I continued in full force with Suzy and our every Tuesday plan with an incredible homemade tomato sauce and delectable veal parmesan dinner ...
Bon Ami Cleaning Supplies
Send me an e-mail to ajbermack@verizon.net by Saturday, September 24th by 9:00 pm and tell me what you’d do with a beautiful set of Bon Ami cleaners. I will select a winner who will receive a beautiful (yes beautiful) gift set of all natural Bon Ami cleaning supplies. I couldn’t have received my ...
Sausage Making with (or rather “for”) Lou
Lou usually beckons me with an e-vite that makes cooking with him nearly impossible to turn down. He refers to me as the “loveliest” in his requests for my attendance for various cooking adventures -- homemade pasta, bread, or something more involved like his delicious eggplant caponata. This time ...
Parallel Power Cooking
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It's going to be an every Tuesday 12:00 to 2:00 pm gig, with the end time being non-negotiable since I need to be available to manage my two middle school kids the second they walk in the door at 2:30. Suzy, temporarily without a kitchen, is desperate to make her family dinner. She knows how bad ...
Soup and Conversation
With a little snip of rosemary, some large cuts of kale and a lot of conversation, my friend Jackie and I convened in my kitchen recently for some much-needed catch up time. She was just back from a family trip to Italy, and had little left in her fridge and I was starved for some girlfriend time. ...
Cheesy Calm Before Irene
There’s an eerie calm around here while getting ready for Irene to strike. Everyone is doing their last minute preparations — stocking up on food, removing patio furniture, going to the ATM’s, filling cars with gas, trying to get in some last minute exercise and scouring the hardware stores for a ...
Farm Fresh Peach Muffins
A sweet and delicious way to preserve the delectable peach flavors of summer. Make a large batch and freeze them for the fall and winter. Recipe source:cooking with friends kitchenIngredientsFor the batter: 1/3 cup 2% milk 6 tablespoons melted salted butter 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 egg, ...
Tomato Gold
Ok, I admit it. I dropped many hints with Lou that this year, I wanted to be part of his end-of-summer sauce-making extravaganza. After lending a hand last year and seeing his super-efficient garage set up allow him to process hundreds of quarts of gorgeous tomato puree, I knew I had to be a part of ...
Calling All Cooking Friends
With summer speeding by and all these farm fresh fruits and vegetables ripe for the picking, I’ve got some hard core cooking and freezing to do! (But first I need to call someone to take a look at my freezer, which isn’t doing its freezing job quite the way it should.) And then second is make some ...