Win big at the super-duper snacks game, with my easy chicken wings recipe. These flavor-full wings are perfect for parties & pot-lucks, even when you're short on time. Extra delicious, fun to eat, and easy as can be. One hour marination time, simple ingredients, sure to please! This winter, it's Honey-Mustard Chicken Wings for the win! Why ...
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Lemongrass Chicken: So good you’ll want to grow lemongrass at home…
Fresh lemongrass was once an extra-trip Asian ingredient, available only in Asian markets which catered to a Southeast Asian community of cooks. These days, it's more widely available around the USA in many supermarkets and farmer's markets. Here in North Carolina, several local grocery stores carry it year round, usually imported from Mexico or ...
Blackberry Roly Poly for #summerdessertweek
Sweet, ripe, and juicy blackberries say Summertime, and this old-time favorite recipe shows them off beautifully. Blackberry Roly Poly is fun to say, fun to make, and fun to share at any summertime celebration! This post and recipe were created for #SummerDessertWeek! I was sent samples by some of the sponsor companies but as always opinions are ...
Nathalie’s Pasta Salad with Pesto, Pine Nuts, Chicken, and Grapes
My work in the world of food gives me countless reasons to love my job, every single day. I love to cook, eat, and travel, and I thrive on the opportunity to learn about kitchens and culinary traditions, farming and ingredients, marketplaces and celebrations; all about people and how food figures in everyday life. In the process of learning ...
Deliciously Simple Chicken Soup
Lightning bugs, hydrangeas and gardenias, early sunrise, late sunset --- I do love this time of year. I am so grateful for this sweet pocket of late-late spring meandering into nearly-but-not-quite summer. Official summer commences next week, which may mean that you are grilling every meal and dining on salads, wraps and sandwiches for the ...
Sunday Suppers: Cynthia Graubart’s Cookbook Shows the Way
Do you have good memories of regular family meals, gathered around the table, but find it difficult to make that happen nowadays? For many of us, it's a scene we'd love to see, but the logistics, the preparations, the decisions and the details sink the idea before we even get started. That's why Cynthia Graubart wrote her latest cookbook: Sunday ...
Thai Chicken-Coconut Soup with Lemongrass and Lime
I love this traditional Thai soup, known as tome kha gai and enjoyed throughout the country, in homes and as part of banquets and restaurant meals. I wrote this recipe for FINE COOKING magazine a few years back, and I love the beautiful and useful photographs by Scott Phillips which illustrate the story. What a treat to find it featured on FINE ...
Chicken Legs with Tomatoes and Basil, the Jamie Oliver Way
This recipe of Chicken Legs with Tomatoes and Basil caught my attention recently when I was noodling around on Food 52's Genius Recipe section. So much goodness there: Simple, straightforward do-able recipes yielding excellent results, usually without fussiness, ingredients challenges, or demand for extensive attention. Translation: Busy weeknight ...
NC Farmers’ Market Feast Starts with Fresh Local Chicken
This is a Sponsored Post. I am receiving compensation from the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, to raise awareness about purchasing poultry at farmer’s markets. All opinions and content are my own. Going to farmers' markets is my idea of fun. I love the endlessly varied, ever-changing, seasonally-inspired displays ...
Thai-Inspired Roast Chicken with Sweet Potatoes
When I read about the FoodBlogSouth2013 Telephone Game, I raised my hand as fast as I could. Who wouldn't want to cook along with a slew of like-minded, blogging, experimenting fellow food writers, connect to FoodBlogSouth, and learn from the Grand Dame, Fairy Godmother, and Resident Generous Genius of Southern Cuisine, Nathalie Dupree? "Mastering ...
#Let’s Lunch: Thai Grilled Chicken Wings with Sweet Hot Garlic Sauce
On first hearing that our Let's Lunch theme for July was 'Barbecue', I felt concerned, because I do not have a massive brick chimney with a big ol' pit to hold massive portions of pork (either whole hog or pork shoulders) in proximity to glowing hickory wood coals for many hours, with a vinegar-kissed sauce of one persuasion or another anointing ...
Chinese Burmese Chili Chicken: A #WokWednesdays Feast
My second Wok Wednesdays endeavor produced a generous, satisfying dish: hearty, gorgeous, and perfect as a party dish or a one-dish family meal. In contrast to our first recipe, Stir-Fried Garlic Spinach, with its hallmarks of simplicity and focus, this dish, Chinese Burmese Chili Chicken plunged us into the world of contrasts and organization, ...
Stir-Fried Chicken with Sweet and Hot Peppers
With school back in session here in North Carolina, and farmer's markets making room for kale, pumpkins, and scuppernong grapes, the produce party we enjoy all summer long is winding down. We're feasting on the last fantastic vine-ripened tomatoes, on tomato sandwiches, in salads with the last of the lettuce or in Bill Smith's famous tomato and ...
Lemongrass Chicken: So good you’ll want to grow lemongrass at home…
Nancie's Lemongrass Chicken, made with chicken thighs, shallots, garlic, fresh lemongrass and a small splash of coarsely ground dried red chilies Fresh lemongrass was once an extra-trip Asian ingredient, available only in Asian markets which catered to a Southeast Asian community of cooks. These days, it's more widely available around the USA in ...
Vietnamese Chicken Salad with Shredded Cabbage and Fresh Mint
Like chicken soup, chicken salads have a place of everyday honor in cuisines around the world. I adore the mayonnaise-dressed versions of my Southern childhood (and adulthood), but I'm in love with this Vietnamese take on the cool-chicken off-the-bone dish, with its ribbons of crisp raw cabbage, fish-sauce/pepper kick, and bright refreshing ...