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 recall living in Carroll Gardens in Brooklyn, and going to the Middle Eastern restaurants on Atlantic Avenue to have chicken bisteeya. It is a marvelous dish, and one I haven’t made at home before. Though it isn’t difficult, it is time consuming and working with filo dough can be challenging. If you’re not familiar […]
I just had to make this French lentil and kale salad, even though winter is hanging on, and it’s not quite salad weather. I have a hard time eating salads when the weather is cold, but once it warms up, I want them again. This interminable winter has me craving both warm weather and things […]
These are the stuffed chicken thighs I made last night. They were as good as they were easy. I don’t recommend starting them at 7:30 at night for a blog post the following day, but they don’t take long, and I had them in the oven in under an hour. To stuff a chicken thigh you […]
Once a year when I take my daughter to a swanky salon to get her back to school haircut, we go out for lunch to The Continental and without fail, we order the Lobster Mac and Cheese. It is made with orzo, gruyère and fontina cheeses, and full of big chunks of lobster, it is so […]
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 […]