I watched Jamie Oliver cook this chicken dish on The Naked Chef. It’s originally a Ligurian recipe but because my neighborhood supermarket only had Spanish olives with pits, I ended up making my own version. Ingredients: 9 pieces of chicken 2 tbsps of flour 6 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced 1/2 cup of Spanish olives ...
I’m not a baker so I was very careful with this recipe I adapted from foodtv.com. It was very involved but I had fun rolling the dough like clay. Ingredients: 2 cups of oatmeal 2 cups of flour 1 cup of raisins 2 sticks of unsalted butter, melted for a few seconds in the microwave ...
I usually have several bags of baby spinach handy after a trip to either the farmers’ market or a big warehouse store like Costco or BJ’s. What’s better than a tossed vegetable salad? Why, a tossed vegetable salad with crispy bacon, of course! Ingredients: 1 bag of baby spinach 4 slices of bacon 4 Belgian ...
This is a very easy salad to make. Di Palo’s in New York City frequently cooks and preserves artichokes in olive oil and sells them in a plastic container. You can use canned artichokes as long as you drain them and use good olive oil as dressing. Endives are available in nicer supermarkets but you ...
This is another salad I make when there are avocados for sale in my neighborhood supermarket. To make sure I buy ripe avocados, I look at the nubbin where the stem came from. If the avocado is ripe, the nubbin pushes right out with my thumb. The best way is to buy the avocados when ...