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.
Many years ago I had a friend from Argentina who introduced me to the Spanish Tortilla, and it was love at first bite. A cousin to the Italian frittata, the Spanish tortilla goes by tortilla de patatas or tortilla española, and always includes potatoes. The frittata is a bit looser on the ingredients; the only must-have is […]
Christmas morning demands a special breakfast and these Christmas morning potatoes will delight everyone, including the cook, because you can get them ready a day or two ahead, and finish them off right before you want to eat them. These crispy nuggets of deliciousness are truly decadent, and though they’ll make your breakfast extra wonderful, […]
As winter seems to drag on and on, and the cold has started seeping into my bones I am in a slow roasting kind of mood. Lately it seems like I am all about turning down the heat (at least in the kitchen) and opting to keep the oven on longer. Yesterday I saw a […]
If you call could a potato hot, this dish would definitely qualify as a hot potato! Decadent, cheesy, and if such a thing is possible for a potato in your world, sexy. I have seen this recently on the Best Thing I Ever Made, and then again somewhere else, and I decided I needed to try that […]
This is a huge admission, but to be honest, I have never made gnocchi before. In culinary school we all served a stint in the Italian restaurant Caterina de Medici. We spent fourteen days there, seven in the kitchen and seven in the dining room where I very dramatically set my hand on fire while […]