Variations on Cooking

This photo does not do this Shrimp Roll justice, but moving on. I will state for the record, "I do not like Lobster Rolls," and I said it...

I have been working a lot with Shrimp and Broccoli; this recipe is a bit more involved than the one from yesterday. Yesterday's recipe...

This has been my quick goto recipe most weeks - I can prep it all before work and then through it all together, and in thirty minutes, it...

This is an adaptation of several recipes, pulling elements from each to create this recipe. I have made it several times and tweaked it...

This is my go-to pasta when I want something quick and fresh for dinner. I usually have all the ingredients on hand, and the pasta comes...

Chicken Piccata is one of my favorite dishes, but one night, I was missing a few key ingredients, and thus, this variation was born. It...

Here is the last of the wing recipes until the cookbook comes out sometime next year. I adapted this one from my lemony chicken recipe...

Here is another COVID-19 dish. We had to use what we had and had many Chinese Hot Mustard packets from all our take-outs over the years....

This is a straightforward and quick dish; I adapted it from a recipe I saw on one of those cooking competition shows. I thought there was...

This is a relatively new recipe: Chicken Piccata is part of my usual monthly line-up of dishes, and one night, I was going to make...

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

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

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 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...

Here is another recipe from the lockdown. I originally started working on this back in 2016 and I keep going back to it making a few...

Ingredients 4 sticks of unsalted butter, room temp 3 cups of raw sugar 3 cups of unbleached flour 6 eggs 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice...