Variations on Cooking

I found the original recipe of this dish in an old Italian Cookbook that was given to me, there were a lot of steps, well maybe not if...

Here is another recipe from a few nights ago. I saw this recipe a few years ago, I copied it down from the magazine I was reading, it...

Here is last night's dinner: I adapted three different recipes for this dish. It has a wonderful earthy undertone - enjoy. Ingredients...

I have been working on a lot of pasta dishes, this one did not make the upcoming book, I had not worked out the recipe in time - But it...

Here is my version of Fettuccine Alfredo with Shrimp: Michael asked for it the other night and I looked up Alfredo sauce and it is the...

A quick cassoulet, I mean a simplified version of a traditional cassoulet. Instead of soaking and stewing the beans from scratch, confit...

I have been asked many times for this recipe, it is one of my go-to recipes during the Fall & Winter months and usually, a hit at every...

I was getting tired of my go-to salad dressing, my homemade Ceasar dressing, so I started playing around with something completely...

I sort of just made these up the other day in prep for a dinner I was going to and another I need to make desserts for. Everyone liked...

Now I have made this a few different ways, with pasta, with rice, or Orzo: but we often have it with pasta since it is quicker to make. I...

I had found this recipe in my Grandmother's cookbook written on a piece of paper with many, many notes all over it. Cross outs,...

I have been playing around with these recipes for weeks now: adapting to other recipes from the turn of the century, to a recipe that was...

I remember always ordering this as a child when we would go to that one restaurant during Easter and I thought I could make this classic...

I have been working o recipes for my next book about pasta and realized I do not have many recipes with stuffed pasta, Tortelli, Ravolli,...

I have been making this for years until I actually came across several recipes in a few of the magazines I get and when I read the...

This is a recipe I have adapted over the years, the original had so many unnecessary steps, and I have pared it down over the years to...

I have been working on this Salmon curry for the last two months and the last few times I have made it Michael has really liked it, so It...

I came across this recipe when I was cleaning out some old business files, how it got there, who knows, but I found an entire stack of...

We had this dish when we were in Paris many years ago and I have been trying to recreate it for years now and I finally have the dish I...

I have been working on this recipe for several years now making little adjustments but then when I had my surgery over the summer,...