Chicken

Inspiration can strike at the most random of times. Including the very moment that you’re writing your shopping list (like this one). In actuality, miso didn’t even hit me until after I wrote the list, handed it to my husband, and he walked out the […]

‘Twas the day before Thanksgiving … and in any normal year I would be holed up in the kitchen right now – baking, prepping, and gearing up for a holiday feast like none other. But not this year. It’s 2020, after all, the most challenging […]

    Whew – what a month it’s been! Apologies for the longer than usual hiatus, but for those who are following along religiously – you know I have a good excuse. We’ve been building up to this all year, and on Labor Day weekend […]

  Confession: I kind of hit a wall today with my kids. In less than a week, my 3-year old has become a full blown threenager and it just totally put me over the edge. For the first time during this quarantine (which will mark […]

Is there anything cozier than a roasted chicken in a cast-iron skillet? Especially on a snowy weeknight (first snow of the season folks!) – this recipe is perfection. I am a big fan of the one-pan/one-pot dinner trend and this is most definitely going down […]

    The leave are falling, the temperatures are dropping… it’s officially fall and the time of year I look forward to most – pumpkin season! If you don’t know this about me yet, I am an unapologetic pumpkin fanatic (my other obsession is pb&j – […]

  Just because it’s summer, it doesn’t mean you have to forego those slow cooker Sundays… just put a lighter spin on them! It seems counterintuitive to the whole “crocktober” movement, but I actually love using my slow cooker in the summer. Especially on those […]

By accident, Cinco de Mayo has become one of our favorite holidays. It kind of started as a running joke with my family when one spring (many years ago when I was still in college) I asked my parents when Cinco de Mayo actually was…. […]

I hate starting a recipe post off on such a negative note, but this has certainly been a month I’d never wish to relive. We ended up having to switch au pairs (such a long and frustrating ordeal, I don’t even know where to start), […]

  This holiday season has been one for the records, the last few weeks have taken “busy” to a whole new level. I feel like I’m just holding on until January now when things will hopefully quiet down, but something tells me that might not […]

By now, anyone who follows our blog knows that I’m a bona fide pumpkin fanatic. Between the months of September-November (the months when pumpkin is “seasonally acceptable”), there is almost nothing I will stop at to incorporate pumpkin into my diet. It’s a short season […]

Believe it or not, stuffing a bird is NOT just for Thanksgiving. Stuffing a whole roasted chicken with apples is a no-brainer and it’s something I don’t do often enough. But a whole roasted chicken yields beautiful pictures, delicious flavors and there’s something about it […]

It’s been a busy few weeks here between the whole family first coming down with coxsackie and then two back to back trips to New Hampshire and then South Carolina. I’ve really been missing my kitchen, but I’m getting so excited that fall is nearly […]

  I need to make a mental note that stuffed peppers are THE go-to for a fun and simple weeknight dinner.  Earlier this year we made a Shepard’s Pie version with ground beef and cauliflower mash topping and I’ve really been meaning to make them […]

  Strawberry season is in full force and if the success of my other recent strawberry-themed posts are any indication, I’m not the only one who can’t get enough of these juicy red berries!  There are so many creative ways to add strawberries into your […]

If there’s one thing I love as a chef, it’s discovering new kitchen hacks.  Whether it’s finding a substitution for an ingredient I need but don’t have on hand (ie, our buttermilk hack, featured in my Creamy Cauliflower Mash recipe) or something that just makes […]

  Every time I hear of a new diet, I’m sorry, but I immediately think “fad.” The ketogenic diet was no exception to this judgment until I dug a little deeper and discovered that it’s basically my philosophy for eating.  I just never knew it had […]

  We’re about halfway through the week of Passover and I’m not even close to running out of creative new matzah recipes to try. If you’re like us, your grocery store rewarded you with 7 boxes of matzah for free (well for spending over a […]

  In my opinion, the best weeknight dinners are the ones that end up being so much easier than you expect. Especially now that I’m a working Mom and time is my most valuable commodity! This whole roasted chicken is the perfect example of one […]

Just when you thought Fridays couldn’t get any better, we introduce fried chicken Fridays!  Sure, it’s an indulgence, so I’m not saying make this every Friday, but there’s no reason you can’t enjoy it every now and then. It may sound crazy but I truly […]

We are big believers in using up whatever’s in our kitchen and this particular week we had to use up those giant dried ancho chile peppers that were left over from our Chicken Tortilla Soup. I got in my head that I wanted to try […]

After a week of holiday travels and celebrations (and LOTS of eating out!) it’s so nice to be home in our kitchen and back to cooking some homecooked meals. In particular, we love this easy no-fuss pasta dish – it’s the perfect thing to whip up […]

Looks like another cold and wintry week in the ‘burbs, which means you should all stop whatever you’re doing right this second and make this soup! This is one of those recipes that we spent endless hours researching, tweaking and perfecting because we were determined […]

Marc’s parents make this dish on a regular basis so we finally took the plunge and decided to make it ourselves.  It’s a great Sunday night dish to try when you have a little extra time on your hands to tackle the prep and allow […]

In any good recipe archive, there should always be a few old favorites. This recipe for crisp-crusted chicken (referred to as “chicken on the bone” in our house), is one of those tried and true classics. I used to beg my Mom to make it […]

  If you want to try a new take on the traditional chicken parm, look no further than this “pizza” recipe.  There’s actually no dough or crust on the pizza, just a glorious base of breaded and *lightly* fried chicken.  I could seriously devour this […]

This recipe is one of our all time favorites, so it was a no-brainer that we would kick off our blog with this.  We’d seen chicken under a brick on restaurant menus over the years and were intrigued/intimated by the concept.  It wasn’t easy to wrap our […]