Roasted Tomato & Corn Pie with Smoked Gouda and Caramelized Onions Serves 4-6 Adapted from The Painted Apron Ingredients: 1 pint grape tomatoes – $2.49 2 Tablespoons olive oil, divided – stock 1 small sweet onion, roughly chopped – $1.04 1 Tablespoon butter – stock 1 cup corn kernels, fresh or frozen – $0.69 ½[…]
Chicken Marsala with Prosciutto
Chicken Marsala with Prosciutto Serves 10 Ingredients: 3 lbs. boneless chicken breasts – $7.10 Flour seasoned with salt and pepper, for dredging – stock 1/3-cup olive oil – stock 4 Tablespoons sweet butter, divided – stock 1 large Vidalia onion, diced – $ 1.74 3 cloves minced garlic – stock 1½ lbs. assorted mushrooms, sliced[…]
Honey & Cashew-Crusted Chicken
Honey & Cashew-Crusted Chicken Serves 3 Ingredients: 1½ lbs chicken drumsticks – $3.00 ¾-cup Italian seasoned Panko breadcrumbs – $2.59 ½-cup roasted, unsalted cashews, crumbled into bits (I dump into a ziploc, seal and bash with a mallet) – $5.99 ¾ teaspoon kosher salt – stock ½-cup flour – stock 1 egg – stock 1[…]
Spring Pasta with Leeks, Green Peas, Asparagus and Sausage
Mariel here. We haven’t forgotten about Feast…just reveling in a little pre-Memorial Day mania, complete with, packing, moving, a full-scale kitchen renovation and a late-stage pregnancy. Feeling a little uninspired as of late, I turned to this easy-as-one-two-three dish brimming with loads of seasonal green veggies and a no-fuss sauce. Serve this alongside a simple[…]
Greek-Style Chicken Pita Wraps with Homemade Tzatziki
Greek-Style Chicken Wraps with Homemade Tzatziki Makes 6 pitas Adapted from TheKitchn.com Ingredients for the Chicken Marinade: 1½ lbs of boneless chicken breasts, chopped into bite-size chunks – $6.50 1½ cups plain, low-fat yogurt – $3.29 5 tablespoons olive oil – stock 3 teaspoons oregano – stock 1 teaspoon salt – stock ½ teaspoon red[…]
Crispy Chicken Sandwich Topped with a Fried Egg, Prosciutto and Spinach-Garlic Aioli
Crispy Chicken Sandwich Topped with a Fried Egg, Prosciutto and Spinach-Garlic Aioli Serves 2 Ingredients for the Aioli (makes about 2/3-cup worth, which is more than you need for this): 3 cloves of garlic – stock Pinch of salt – stock Handful of fresh spinach – $2.50 1 egg yolk at room temp – stock[…]
Chipotle-Spiced Pulled Pork
Mary Anne here. This is another specialty divined by my better half, Michael, but getting the recipe out of him was akin to dicing and chopping a week’s worth of veggies: mind-numbingly tedious. But in the end, it was well worth the torture. Michael cooks the way most home-chefs can when they don’t blog about[…]
Sausage and White Beans with Roasted Tomatoes
Mariel here. One of my all-time favorite winter dishes is my step-dad’s “Cost-Conscious Cassoulet.” Instead of pricey lamb and duck, he uses bone-in chicken breasts, thighs, drumsticks, thick-cut bacon and sweet sausage. After a 3½-hour stint in the oven – during which your house starts to smell like a bonafide Parisian bistro – you’ve got[…]
Braise-Roasted Chicken with Root Vegetables
Mariel here. Looks like we’re in for a wild and wooly winter, if December is a harbinger of things to come. In honor of the recent “Brrricane” (my favorite moniker for this year’s post-Christmas blizzard), I whipped up a few hearty one-pot wonders including our sweet and savory Pot Roast, as well as this Braise-Roasted[…]
Stir-Fried Orange-Chili Beef with Broccoli and Spring Onions
Mariel here. It’s cool and rainy here on the East Coast…and that’s not a complaint. I haven’t been in the mood for much more than creamsicles, watermelon bites and cold crisp pickles, but thanks to a looming cold front, I decided it was time to indulge in a real meal…one that requires cooking and everything.[…]
Four Cheese Crab Macaroni
Mariel here (on behalf of Mary Anne). This is a new take on a family favorite, courtesy of my multi-talented mamacita. While this is HER recipe, I decided to do her a solid and write the intro – I’m certainly not trying to pass off her work as my own… By now you probably know[…]