Shortly after Brad and I moved in together, we realized we were ordering way too much takeout. We decided to stop stretching the “well, we just moved” excuse each time we ordered a pizza. Yes, I’m all about cooking from scratch and making up my own recipes, but that requires a lot of thinking and sometimes I just want to make dinner without thinking. So we signed up for Home Chef, a weekly meal delivery service that ships pre-portioned ingredients and recipes — the only…
The first time I ever had crab dip was at a restaurant in The Tiger’s Tale, a simple bar and grill where my parents would take us to have dinner if we happened to be north of Princeton. It was nothing special, but probably a fun place to get drinks and appetizers if you live in the New Jersey suburbs and happen to like getting drinks and appetizers. I say this because the one thing on the menu that did stand out to…
Once you know what you’re doing, fish is one of the easiest proteins to cook, even easier than a chicken breast. Until you reach that point though, seafood is daunting. We’ve covered how to select the best seafood, but what do you do once you get it home? There are plenty of cooking methods to choose from, but we dug up some of the most user-friendly fish at the market and have some tips for you about how to prepare and…
There are very few things that will get me out of bed at 7:00 a.m. on a Saturday. Among those reasons: a television segment, a flight and probably the fire alarm. St. Patrick’s Day has never before fallen under that category. Luckily I’ve never had to test that theory. Now we can add a fourth thing to the list: dyeing the Chicago River green in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day with Country Financial.…
Baked Pasta with Spinach, Lemon, and Cheese
Cooking for a Crowd, Recipes, Worknight Dinners March 8, 2017
Last week, Brad and I ditched the frigid cold and hearty baked pasta dishes of Chicago (well, it hasn’t actually been that cold but for storytelling purposes, the winter has been long and arduous) and traded it for a week in Arizona for warm weather and delicious fish tacos alongside prickly pair margaritas.…