Hey Amy!

Are you ready for your guests this gorgeous Memorial Day weekend?  Or are you the guest?  If it’s a covered dish BBQ (where everyone brings a dish to share), this is the recipe for you.  It’s simple.  It’s flavorful.  It’s easy to transport.  It’s gorgeous.  Have I sold you on it yet? Ingredients: 1 red [...]

It’s Saturday and many of you will have date night tonight.  Some will choose the traditional date of dinner out with a movie and perhaps stop by for a nightcap on your way home (BTW, nightcaps can be cocktails, coffee or in our case, sometimes they are milkshakes from a great diner!).  I love the [...]

Are you getting fat yet?  I feel fat just writing about these pasta recipes this week!  This one is fun to make with friends.  There are many ways to make manicotti but I liked this for it’s crepe component.  My mom loves crepes so, Patsy, this ones for you! Ingredients: 4 eggs 1 c. sifted flour [...]

…and a coke with no ice. That is one of my favorite quotes from “Fast Times at Ridgemont High“.  Each time someone orders this dish or I make it, I have to do the entire scene.  Yes, I am pathetic. This dish always sounded like an adventure in the kitchen.  For whatever reason, I always [...]

My other half’s mother gave me a 25-year-old cookbook from the firefighters of NYC.  It’s fun to read as there are firefighter stories that accompany just about every recipe  in the book.  There are all sorts of recipes but the one’s I want to share with you this week are pasta dishes.  We begin with [...]

I love risotto.  Years ago, when I could still eat shrimp, there was a place on Cahuenga that had the best shrimp risotto.  It came tossed with corn and asparagus and I could not get enough of it.  I almost cried when the restaurant burnt to the ground on a cold winter evening (cold for [...]

I love turkey and pasta.  I am not sure if it’s because the pasta is a nice substitute for mashed potatoes or if it’s because I like to sleep and between the carb overload and the tryptophan, I pass out!  This recipe came from my Crock Pot recipe book I picked up last week at [...]