Variations on Cooking

I have been working on my next book all about soups and stews and of course, it's summer now so I have been revisiting the cold soup....

Chicken wings are one of my favorite dishes, I usually get the traditional Buffalo Chicken Wings but over the years I have been coming up...

I made these the other night for a dinner party and one of our guests asked for the recipe, I searched my blog and I had not posted this...

Tackling another classic Chicken recipe, this dish I had at Ralphs Italian Restaurant in Philadelphia and got inspired to try to make it...

As my first chicken book is with the editor I decided to start working on recipes for the second book on chicken this time putting my...

As I was going through recipe pads, I found this stuck in among the stews recipes, I adapted from a recipe from the 1960 cookbook found...

Ingredients 2 pounds veal, cut into pieces 3 cups Bone Broth, Beef, unsalted if possible 1 cup dry Vermouth 2 pints of assorted mushrooms...

Ingredients 1 ounce (about 1 cup) dried mushrooms, preferably porcinis 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 shallots finely chopped 2...

I had these many, many summers ago and I was going through old files and came across the recipe I made to create these fritters - Enjoy...

Ingredients 1 lb. shrimp, cleaned and deveined 6 cups of homemade seafood stock 1-pint mushrooms of choice, sliced 6 oz. of angel hair...

Here is a recipe that I adapted slightly from the original recipe found on the Blog "Cook & Be Merry". Ingredients 2 to 6oz Cod or...

Ingredients 5 cups of diced, peeled beets 1 cup of red diced radishes 1 small red onion, chopped 1 red bell pepper, chopped ½ English...

With Summer just around the corner it time to start thinking about warm-weather dishes. This recipe came to mind when I was in the...

During the lockdown, I started to try a dish I never made before and to put my own twist on them, Chicken Alfredo is one of those dishes....

Here is another recipe from the lock-down, this dish went through a number of revisions until I arrived at the recipe below. The photo...

Over the last year, I had a lot of time to work on new recipes and beef is usually not a protein I usually cook, but my husband really...

So I have been working on this dish for almost a year now and I have finally got the recipe to a point that the taste is perfect, well at...

After watching Stanley Tucci on CNN, "Stanley Tucci Searching for Italy", I have been inspired by each episode and the region in Italy...

This is another recipe I have been working on for years. I started with the traditional one from an old 50's French/American cookbook...

It has been a while since I have posted anything on my BLOG, sorry. But things are starting to get into a pattern so I can have some...