I have been wanting to make this classic Roman pasta dish for some time now, cacio e pepe.  It is simply cheese and pepper pasta.  And it is simply delicious.  If you have cheese, black pepper, olive oil and a box of spaghetti, you can make cacio e pepe. My cousin recently visited Italy and …

Traditional ground beef chili, packed with flavor and served chili mac style over macaroni pasta ~ pass the grated cheese, sour cream and hot sauce, please!

Baked pork chops and apples in mustard cream sauce, simple and elegant French comfort food. This dish is a total splurge, just throw caution to the wind.  I mean, really, how often can you make a dish with heavy cream and pork and wine?  Pork chops and apples is a favorite in this house.  I have …

I love Greek-style anything…lemon, olive oil, garlic, oregano.  Lately I have been craving chicken and potatoes, Greek-style.  This stems from my single life in Chicago.  I lived a couple of blocks from the Athenian Room on Halsted, and I will tell you they make the best Kalamata Chicken.  The chicken is great, but the potatoes …

Greek baked white fish, simple rendition of the Greek church’s baked white fish served every Friday for lunch, with frozen swai, lemon, butter, Greek seasonings and an unexpected topping of crushed canned fried crispy onions.

We had a great Fourth of July this year.  Just my husband and me, Picky Eater had to work.  Since she doesn’t like salmon, what a great time to fire up the grill for Maple Mustard Cedar-Planked Salmon.  We’ve been eating more salmon this year and this was the first time on the grill.  I …