Fast Easy Recipes

Chicken and mushrooms lighten up game-day chili
This easy one-pot chili is perfect for a couple or a crowd on Super Bowl Sunday. Chili is always a family pleaser. Using chicken and mushrooms gives a light, tasty result. All of the ingredients cook in a large skillet. It’s a meal on its own, or serve quick-cooking rice and a ready-to-eat salad on the side.

Fox Valley Cooks:
When Joe Olander came home from his tour in the Army, his mother, Marian Olander, asked him what he wanted most for dinner. “He said he wanted Pizza Hot Dish,” says Marian, referring to a family favorite. “It’s just a great comfort food recipe that all my kids like.” Marian’s five children are all adults now. Three of the children are married, and two will tie the knot this spring in ceremonies ...

Mediterranean bar to the rescue
Make fast family meals using olives, roasted tomatoes and more from the supermarket It's time to think of the roasted tomatoes, peppers and garlic, the olives and the marinated artichokes and mushrooms at your supermarket's Mediterranean bar as more than grab-and-go items for snacks or spur-of-the-moment parties.

Winter foods to help you get, or stay, slim
Is the cold weather starting to get you down? After long and busy days, it’s so easy to pick up comfort food on the way home. Mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, hot Mexican food, fried chicken and pizza hit the spot — but what happens the next day?

Recipes: Doing the rice thing
Asia's staple lends itself to so many dishes. Try our recipes for Vegetable Fried Rice, Thai Curry Prawns and Tuna Nigiri Sushi.

3 easy recipes to inspire cooking confidence: muffins, smoothie, pizza
Here are three recipes suitable to use in cooking classes for youth or for anyone who wants to prepare some easy items that are healthy and delicious.

Ervolino: When Sinatra, Liz Taylor and others died, Frank Decaro was collecting recipes for 'The Dead Celebrity ...
Can you remember what you were doing when you heard that Elizabeth Taylor died? Or Frank Sinatra ? Or Rock Hudson?

A nod to Flemish Stew
Recipe for Flemish Stew

Souper Bowl Recipes II: Coca-Cola Chicken Stew, Scottish Hunter's Soup, Chicken Chili
Last but not least, more favorite soup and stew recipes from collaborators in Lesley Kearney's Souper Bowl, featured in today's News. You don't see too many stews braising chicken in Coca-Cola - it almost reminds me of Filipino or Southern American home cooking.

Burns Night supper: vegetarian haggis
With no mucking about with messy innards or arcane cooking methods, a meat-free haggis can be made in 30 minutes. What are you doing for Burns Night?