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Oven Classics: Prosciutto Stuffed Chicken Breasts and Couscous Stuffed Peppers

I am counting down the days until I can stop being a slave to my oven and instead head outdoors to the grill. We started off the week with snow and freezing temperatures so my plans to shift to a summer menu have been put on the back burner for now. The inclement weather still has me utilizing my oven on a daily basis, though I am hoping that I won’t have to prepare the following recipes for much longer. I call these two recipes my “oven classics” because they end up in my menu rotation at least twice a … Continue reading →

Individual 3-Cheese Chicken Florentine

I love this recipe because it uses fresh ingredients. Fresh spinach has to be at the top of my list for favorite foods–and it’s definitely at the top of my very short list of favorite raw vegetables. Packed with super duper vitamin power, if you can disguise it in cheese to get the rest of your family to eat it; it makes a deceptively delicious supper. For this recipe, you’ll need individual ramekins. You can also bake it in a big casserole dish but I have to tell you that the presentation of an individual ramekin can’t be beat when … Continue reading →

Chicken Cutlets in Sweet Basil Cream Sauce

I know this sounds like an incredibly complicated dish worthy of a gourmet kitchen but truth be told it’s not that complicated. I love fresh basil and for some reason I always have a hankering for it in the spring and summer. There’s something about the abundance of fresh produce that causes me to oogle over fresh herbs as well. Although fresh herbs are available year round at your grocery store. In any case, if you stick basil on it, I’ll eat it. So when I ran across this recipe in Cooking Pleasures, I started playing and voila–here is my … Continue reading →

Chicken in Florentine Sauce

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Up until I started checking facts for this blog, I thought ‘Florentine’ was anything with spinach in it. I guess if I had thought about it, I could’ve told you that a la Florentine was named after something in Florence, Italy! Well, the story goes that Catherine de Medici introduced the French court to spinach. It was usually eggs, fish or chicken paired with spinach and a mornay sauce. (I should note that every single article that mentioned this story also mentioned that there is no way to prove that it’s actually true.) In any case, she wanted to honor … Continue reading →

A Month in Review

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I know, I know. I’m supposed to do a week in review every week. That’s the whole point. But I got super busy (especially on weekends when I usually write the week in review) and missed it. Now I’m faced with a dilemma: skip the week in reviews that I missed. . .post them separately, or do them as a month. So here I am, bringing you the month in review. (I do have to mention another reason I am behind on my weekly reviews is that I’m working on a BIG project for the food blog! Shhhh. . .don’t … Continue reading →