Variations on Cooking

I was going through one of my many yellow pads of recipes and came across this one from 2015. I was playing around with lasagnas back...

I know it’s been pasta, pasta, pasta for over a week, but I was in Trader Joe this morning and saw these beautiful baby artichokes and...

Okay I know this has been a long stretch of pasta dishes, but with all the fresh veggies in the market I have been doing the salads and...

Roasted Chicken, Veggies with Orzo and Feta Ingredients 2 lbs of boneless chicken breasts, skins removed 3 lemons, juiced and zested 4...

I have been on a pasta roll the last few days and with the new challenges I have been faced with regarding our diet and that we had to...

Creamy Linguine with Peas Ingredients 1 lb. fresh Linguine, cook as per direction on package, reserve ½ cup of the pasta water 1 cup of...

Lemon Chicken Pasta with Asparagus Ingredients 8 oz. of penne pasta 1 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into 1 inch chunks 1 lb....

Shrimp Pasta Salad, a cold salad Ingredients 1 lb. small shrimp, peeled, deveined, and cooked (see note below) 8 ounces pasta shells,...

Lemon Herb Pasta Ingredients 1 pound penne pasta 1 cup baby Arugula 4 large lemons juiced and zested 2 medium, fresh Burrata, chopped...

In one of my newsletters from late last year I went over how to make a whole array of different pesto’s. Since then I have played with a...

Garganelli with Meat sauce Ingredients 1 lb. ground beef, veal, lamb 2 oz. pancetta, diced 2 chicken livers, cleaned and diced 2 cups...

Ingredients 1 lb. of fresh ground meat, beef, veal, or lamb 1 cup dry red wine 2 cups tomatoes, diced and seeded ½ cup of freshly grated...

Ingredients 2 cups tomatoes, diced and seeded ½ cup dry white wine or vermouth ½ cup freshly grated Pecorino cheese 4 oz. pancetta, diced...

Tagliatelle Smalzade Ingredients 1 lb. of organic veal, cubed 4 shallots, chopped 2/3 cup of light cream ½ cup dry white wine 4...

Ingredients 4 oz. of Pancetta or Bacon 1/3 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese 4 egg yolks ¼ cup light cream 3 cloves of garlic, minced 1...

Ingredients 1 lb. Shrimp, cleaned, shelled, and deveined 1 lb. Rock clams, cleaned 1 lb. mussels, cleaned 9 oz. of sea scallops 4...

This is a recipe I had sort threw together one night when I invited a few friends over to our apartment for dinner after walking the NY...

With all the wonderful fresh herbs in my garden, I decided to break with the pestos and create a creamy herb sauce for pasta. Ingredients...

Ingredients 3 sticks of unsalted butter 1 cup of flour 8 cups of buttermilk 2 lbs of pasta of choice, cook 2 minutes less than it states...

Coconut Chicken Mac and Cheese Chicken Ingredients 3 Tbsp canola oil 2 Tsp minced garlic 1 Tsp minced ginger 1/2 Tsp ground Turmeric 1/2...