Nancy Lowell has spent a lifetime loving, eating, cooking, learning and reading about food. She has owned a small restaurant in Delaware County, New York, a catering business in New York City, worked for fifteen years for Whole Foods Market, and served Breakfast at Tiffany’s during her time working in corporate dining.
When shopping for scallops, the most important question to ask is “Do you have dry scallops?” Next time you buy scallops, ask the fish monger if the they are; if he/she doesn’t know what you are talking about walk away and try not to buy fish from that place again. Anyone who sells dry scallops knows […]
Roast chicken is probably one of my favorite things, but I wanted to try something new, branch out, hit some new pavement, get a little crazy, so I decided to turn down the heat, and made my roast chicken low and slow. I like the concept of cooking things slowly; it really gives the flavors […]
You don’t hear much about barley (except here, where I seem to write about it a lot). It is similar in nutrition to quinoa, but not nearly as trendy. I am heralding barley as the nutritional, grain underdog, Barley Power! So far I’ve shown recipes for barley in soup, and I will again, but today […]
There are as many opinions about what makes a good latke as there are about matzoh balls, but I have never met anyone who didn’t love them! Even if you won’t be celebrating what is pains me to call Thanksgukuh (I promise I will not use this word again—ever), and if you have never tried […]
I am not Italian, not one tiny bit, but I LOVE meatballs! And sauce too. I have made lots of meatballs in an attempt to get them just right, tender, flavorful ones that hold their shape. The last time I made them I had intended to write a post, but they weren’t that good, certainly […]