Fast Easy Recipes

Sweet potato, chorizo & egg
Most recipes I publish here are dishes to share. This is an unusual recipe for one and is a decadent brunch or supper. Soothing and comforting with a kick of spice, luscious sweet potato, spiky chorizo, a creamy soft egg yolk and some ripe rich avocado on the side to calm it all down.

Delights that happen to be gluten-free
Computers can be friends or demons. My desktop computer decided to be the latter this week.

The chicken that flew from Chicago to Capitol Hill
High school students from the Chicago Vocational Career Academy got to serve samples of their oven “fried” chicken on Capitol Hill this afternoon — an award-winning example of the healthful food that Chicago’s public-school elementary and secondary students have been enjoying since November 2011. Read full article >>

Judi Leaming: New recipes ... that’s what friends are for
Inspired by recent meals with friends, food columnist Judi Leaming offers up new recipes, which include Crunchy Tossed Salad, Betty Crocker's Summer Macaroni Salad and Gooey Mixed-Nut Bars.

SUE ADE: Pie-making professor declared "Best" - again
The 18th annual American Pie Council (APC)/Crisco National Pie Championships has once again chosen competition veteran John Sunvold, of Winter Park, Florida, as the victor of the Amateur Best in Show title for his "Peg's Banana Cream Supreme" pie, the first place winner in the Cream pie category.

Give mom a hand
Experts offer advice for how moms (and dads) can get dinner on the table on hectic weeknights

Resort’s pasta dish fundraiser supports Waimea Middle School garden
Waimea Middle School students form dough into small dumplings, or gnocchi, under the instruction of Four Seasons Resort Hualalai Executive Sous Chef Nick Mastrascusa Wednesday morning at Malaai, the school’s culinary garden.

UT Medical 'Healthy Kitchen' releasing healthy living cookbook
The University of Tennessee Medical Center is collecting ways to help people live healthier lives with a new cookbook.

NNC awards best vegetable recipes in NorMin
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Missing chicken casserole uses French bread, wine
Good morning, readers. We are looking today for a chicken casserole that graced Southern Living's cover, as well as fried green tomatoes, caramelized onion grits, blackened grits cake and sweet corn hoecakes from the fabled Magnolia's restaurant in Charleston, S.C.