Fast Easy Recipes

PV students compete in 'Top Chef' competition
Some Passaic Valley High School students recently really got "cooking" so-to-speak.

Nigel Slater's lamb with asparagus, and mussels with chorizo recipes
New season lamb and young asparagus tips combine brilliantly as a simple one-pot wonder for warmer days

Cicero: Take a dip into Indonesia with savory peanut sauce
We tried the sauce you gave for homemade egg rolls and it was really good. Now I'm wondering if you know how to make the peanut sauce for dipping you get at Asian restaurants. I would love to try it on a big plate of noodles and vegetables.

Cook’s Corner: Take a dip into Indonesia with this savory peanut sauce
QUESTION: We tried the sauce you gave for homemade egg rolls and it was really good. Now I’m wondering if you know how to make the peanut sauce for dipping you get at Asian restaurants. I would love to try it on a big plate of noodles and vegetables.

True Brit: The Independent's Mark Hix celebrates a decade creating classic recipes
String up the bunting, bake a cake and marinate the herrings in cider (in the fridge, for about five days); Mark Hix, the man from the Jurassic Coast with a highly evolved taste for the foraged, the cured, the well-hung and – above all – the British, is celebrating 10 years as The Independent's resident chef. Appearing every week in these pages, the Dorset foodie has devised as many as 2,000 ...

Tank up on custom sub sandwiches at Wilmington service station
Since its launch 2 1/2 years ago, business at the tiny kitchen and take-out counter of Charlie's Sub Sandwich Station at Charlie Mulcahy's Arco service station and convenience store in Wilmington has ballooned, mostly by word of mouth and social media.

Family Affair
BY PATRICK GABRION Times Record Business Editor [img_assist|nid=39259|title=|desc=Barbara Bowley, left, and Stacy LaBombard are the owners of Annabella’s Bakery & Cafe in Richmond. “We have always had a very close relationship. We seem to work well together because Barbara loves to bake and is great at it, and Stacy loves to cook and invent different things,” they said in a recent interview ...

Cicero: A light, Asian-accented salad for a warm day
The recipe here for Chopped Watercress Chicken Salad with Asian Orange Dressing came across my desk during a warm spell, and it seemed just the thing on day when I didn't feel like doing a lot of cooking.