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.
Fork tender is a phrase you hear all the time (well maybe not all the time) but it is often part of a recipe’s directions. So what does fork tender mean, and how do you know when you’re there? The magic about foods that should be cooked to this point is that they are almost […]
I don’t make meatloaf often enough, but tonight as the snow was flying outside seemed like a good night for it. One of the things I like about meatloaf is how versatile it is. you can toss in just about anything you have around. You can load it with veggies (I didn’t this time) use […]
I have been staring at my waffle iron since I got it, “Wanna Waffle?” it taunts me. Yes, I do, but I really need to get the whole waffle concept, and I’m a bit ashamed to admit it, I needed to take a bit of a scientific approach. I Googled, I searched, I read, I […]
The winter solstice is the day with the shortest daylight hours. It doesn’t feel like it, but starting today the days will be getting longer for the next six months until the summer solstice. As far back as I can recall I’ve been interested in the four days of the year that mark the change […]
It is a shame that boneless-skinless chicken breasts are the go-to chicken for most people, rather than the far superior (in my estimation) bone-in, skin on,chicken thighs. I think there are a number of reasons for this, and none of them have anything to do with flavor. Some people can’t deal with chicken bones (or […]