Hardly a week goes by without me roasting a chicken in the oven. For me, roast chicken is the ultimate comfort meal. One bite takes me back to the immediately soothing and familiar taste of my mom’s roast chicken, and provides me with a lifetime of memories at the tip of my fork. There is […]
Nobu’s Teriyaki Chicken
You would think that someone who has over 500 cookbooks could come up with at least a dozen recipes for boneless, skinless chicken thighs at the snap of a finger, but today, I drew a complete blank. What to do, what to do, with these little pink mounds of flesh staring blankly back at me […]
Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
“This is trashy Midwestern eating at its finest. You could be on a back road goin’ nowhere, comin’ from nowhere, and haven’t even been anywhere, when all of a sudden you would come upon a roadside dive selling this tenderloin sandwich that was so big and so divine, you’d give up your virginity and your […]
Easy Baked Beans
I come from a long lineage of people who love baked beans. And if I may say so, I also come from a long line of great cooks who have perfected the art of making slow cooked, baked beans in a crock over a low fire, or buried in hot embers, or in a first […]
Hamburger Stroganoff
When I was in high school, I worked at the local Red Lobster restaurant. At the time, entrees included a house salad and garlic bread. One of the regular guests (we weren’t allowed to call them customers, you know), Joe, would come in every week and order the same thing. Still, I would always ask […]