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 don’t know the last time I fried up some bacon in a pan, splattering my kitchen with grease, standing over it, watching the bacon curl and twist… ugh, so much trouble. It’s not that I don’t make bacon anymore, I just don’t make it in a pan. My mom used one of those microwave […]
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 […]
What does it look like when duck, duck, goose is a game you play in your kitchen? I remember an ill-fated Christmas dinner when I convinced my mother we should have roast goose. It seemed so romantic and grand. I was a sophomore in college, and was bringing my boyfriend home to meet my family. […]
Water is a pretty amazing ingredient. it costs almost nothing, and is generally pretty accessible. In the science world, water is the universal solvent, and it is a key component in almost every living thing. You probably hardly give it a thought, but you wouldn’t want to cook without it. In the kitchen we sometimes […]