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.
Bacon continues to dominate the world, and though I am still a fan, though I have found a replacement and pecans are my new bacon. I seem to be adding them to everything, and everything I add them to is better for it. Toasted pecans (and you must toast them) add flavor, texture and depth to foods. They’re […]
Turkey tetrazzini is one of my favorite childhood foods, but could I build a better tetrazzini, a meatless one? Mushrooms are often the default meat substitute because of their meaty texture and flavor, but this already has mushrooms in the sauce so I set off for the Sunday Headhouse farmers’ market in search of inspiration, and […]
I have a food blog, and for the past month I have been not been cooking. Oh sure, I have cooked a few things, some cauliflower soup, a roasted chicken, and last week I made some macaroni and cheese and used smoked cheese, but nothing I was even moved to photograph or make notes about. I write […]
Left to my own devices, especially when I am feeling busy (don’t you detest that word?) I could conceivably eat chicken for dinner every night. Fortunately for me my daughter doesn’t eat chicken, beef or pork, so whether I feel like it or not, I must come up with something besides chicken for dinner. We often default to pasta, […]
I spent most of Saturday slaving over a hot stove, and much of Saturday evening cleaning up from the mess I made after a day of canning. Based on the state of my kitchen you might think I made about twenty things when in fact I made two. I made a batch of the tomato jam I […]