Fast Easy Recipes

Elise Cooking School opened in Norman with many classes and courses in the works.
NORMAN — Bill Munsell is a man on a mission when he walks away from a butcher shop with 20 pounds of beef bones. The bones are the beginning of his beef stock recipe, and the essence of many gourmet meals.

Host your own Chowder Bowl
Use Stew's New England Clam Chowder recipe to host your own Chowder Bowl. Photo: Contributed Photo / Norwalk Citizen Starting today, and running through Super Bowl Sunday, Stew Leonard's in Norwalk is letting New Yorkers and New Englanders battle it out in the kitchen.

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Cold weather means comfort food for Philippa Vine – who gets a little help from a Farmers Weekly reader in her kitchen this month.

Ed Shoenfeld's Schmaltzy Chicken Fried Rice
A technique that I particularly relish is creating onion-flavored oil and using it as an underlying flavor base in my cooking. For this recipe, I suggest roasting a chicken on a bed of onions that flavor the rendered chicken fat.

Recipe: Sea Scallops with Portobello Mushrooms, Peppers, Bok Choy and a Soy Ginger Dressing
Dynamite flavor combination!

A Staten Island Super Bowl for foodies
The Advance hosts its 39th annual Taste-off competition, with live cooking demonstrations, at the Hilton Garden Inn

Classic Greek cuisine: Try lamb stew, eggplant salad
Chef Jim Botsocos shares his best Greek recipes including Greek yogurt with cucumber, garlic and mint, "cavier" mousse, and more.

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?

Recipe: Beef and Bean Taco/Burrito
A nicely spiced, easy to make beef and bean filling to mound into taco shells, or roll in flour tortilla shells, with other ingredients.

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?