My daughter’s love of vegetables can be directly traced to the fried rice I used to make for her when she was a toddler. I can see the kitchen of the house we lived in at the time and remember whipping up fried rice from leftover rice and adding lots of bite-sized broccoli, carrots, and […]
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Bon Appétit Challenge: Mario Batali’s Chicken Parmesan
I started the Bon Appétit Challenge after seeing the movie Julie and Julia earlier this year. The challenge is to cook the cover recipe of every Bon Appétit magazine that I have and cannot bring myself to throw out. Who was I kidding!? I have BA magazines dating back to the 1990’s – you would […]
Bon Appétit Challenge – Five Spice Apple Pie
The challenge: cook every cover recipe from the gazillion Bon Appetit magazines I have saved over the years. The idea struck me as I contemplated cooking the cover recipe of the September 2009 issue “Chicken a la Mattone” or Chicken under a Brick – I smiled inside at the thought of posting a recipe that […]