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.
I have always loved appetizers and hors d’oeuvres! I love making them and eating them. Today I’m sharing two recipes from long ago, and though both are old school, they’re classics. Just in time for New Year’s Eve or Day, these two are festive, fairly simple and are sure-fire crowd pleasers. First is shrimp […]
I loved that slow roast chicken from a few weeks ago so much I’m trying it a new and even easier way. I decided to see how it turns out with even fewer steps, and less planning necessary. I took my chicken out of the refrigerator, and put it on some paper towels to dry it […]
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 […]
When I was very young; young enough to watch Captain Kangaroo, I loved when the Captain would read books aloud, and Stone Soup was one of my favorites. There are numerous versions of the story. The one I recall from my childhood featured three soldiers, cold and hungry and coming to a small town with […]