by admin | Jun 30, 2018 | My Favorite Recipes
Crispy sauteed chicken thighs with a delicious blueberry salad- The perfect meal for a hot summer day. I’m so glad that chicken thighs have finally come into vogue. The best restaurants in New Orleans now feature the lowly chicken thigh on their...
by admin | Apr 25, 2018 | My Favorite Recipes
I once thought making fresh pasta was what a short, pleasingly-plump Mama Rosa did in the mountains of rural Italy. I recently learned that isn’t true. It’s a simple, fun process. And DELICIOUS! Oh, my word, the difference in taste is amazing. Fresh...
by admin | Apr 11, 2018 | My Favorite Recipes
My daughter Amy is an avid fitness expert and also a great cook. Her conversation is peppered with words like good fats, metabolize, gluten and the like. I just let her talk and hope she doesn’t notice when I butter my bread. Anyway, she’s always up for a...
by admin | Mar 23, 2018 | My Favorite Recipes
You got it right. Chicken confit–not duck. We were having our supper club over last week and I wanted to cook something a bit different. I thought of duck confit, which I adore, with it’s crispy skin and melting tender meat. But it’s hard...
by admin | Nov 10, 2017 | My Favorite Recipes
A friend shared this recipe with me and raved about it, so I gave it a try. But, instead of giving me a regular recipe with ingredients and an instruction list, she said, “Do this, then add that, then do this, etc.” I was a bit confused, so after I...
by admin | Oct 11, 2017 | My Favorite Recipes
I love gnocchi!The Italian Barrel, an authentic Italian restaurant on the corner of Chartres and Barracks in New Orleans, makes these little pillows of heaven with a parmesan Romano cream sauce. I’ve tried...
