Looking to change things up a bit a dinner? This recipe is easy to adjust depending on your taste, or what happens to be on sale. It works just well with turkey breast or pork tenderloin in place of the chicken.
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Sweet Potato and Roasted Red Pepper Soup
It's a given, potatoes will explode in a microwave if you don't poke them, right? Have you ever tried it?
A few years ago the US Potato Board came to the magazine I was working for and showed us new techniques for baking, mashing and roasting potatoes in the microwave. I'll be honest, I was surprised the techniques worked as well as they did but the one that stood out for me was the mashed version. They went against "common sense" and didn't poke holes in them before nuking them.
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Chianti Steak Salad
Chianti is the classic Italian table wine we associate with straw-covered bottles. Although good chianti is rarely bottled this way anymore, Chianti remains one of the best drinking and cooking wines you will find. Needless to say, I recommend serving a nice Chianti with this salad.
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Old Fashioned Gingerbread
Fall is officially here and so is the cooler weather. When we were growing up, that first brisk day usually meant one thing...Mom was going to make gingerbread.
We'd come home from school and I'd look for a 9-inch square pan and 2 metal mixing bowls sitting on the counter. She'd already have measured out the dry ingredients in one and the molasses and other liquid ingredients in the other. That way she could quickly mix it together as we were sitting down to dinner and it would be ready when we finished.
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