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.
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 […]
According to the Food Lover’s Companion a chowder is a “thick chunky seafood soup, of which clam chowder is the most well known.The name comes from the French chaudièr a cauldron n which fisherman made their stews fresh from the sea… The term is also used to describe any thick, rich soup containing chunks of […]
I wanted to make a tart using limes, because I bought too many and needed to use them. I trolled around looking for ideas, and came up with this which is an amalgam of several recipes. Often when I making something new I read several recipes, put them all away and get to work. For […]
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 […]