Amy Powell
Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan
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Roasting Tough Fall Veggies For A Sweet Outcome
We all know someone who even as an adult refuses to eat certain vegetables because of some childhood trauma. By trauma I mean perhaps they suffered through years of Popeye tasting spinach or carrots cooked...
Brown Butter is the Color (and Taste) of Fall
With October First usually comes the debut of fall menus in seasonal restaurants around the country. In your own seasonal kitchen you might be slowly swapping summer’s berries for fall’s apples and...
After-School Snacks All Grown Up
When we were kids, one of the best parts about getting out of school in the afternoon was the afternoon snack. Before you would even think about turning on the TV for cartoons, the kitchen was a necessary...
Summer Bounty Meets the Fall Harvest
September is the limbo month. Monday can mean a scarf and gloves and by Friday the heat might have you back at the beach for some end of summer sun bathing. The morning’s crisp air brings the excitement...
Bye-Bye to Bacon?
Living a healthy life is important to me and important to my primary employer, The Republic of Tea, as well. As such, they recently offered us a free health screening that involved a more in-depth blood...
The Next "It" Sauce
Pesto was so nineties. There was a time when pesto came with everything, from appearing as a topping on a piece of salmon to a spread on sandwiches to the traditional pasta sauce. Then came the aughts...
Burger Bar For Labor Day
Burgers, hot dogs, tacos, pizza: no everyday food is too pedestrian for even the most critically acclaimed chef these days. Whether it’s a function of the economic change or there has been a seismic...
The Food of Break-Ups
Whether it was the solar eclipse in Aquarius earlier this month or some other cosmic forces at work, it certainly seems as though this summer has brought on a sea change in relationships for many of the...
I Heart Fish in Parchment
If fishing was easy it would be called catching, or so said a bumper sticker I read somewhere. Truth is I kind of wish fishing was more like catching. Fishing may be as all-American a summer pastime...
Bring New Life to Barbecue Leftovers
I don’t know what it is about a summer barbecue, but it just gets me excited. Maybe a little too excited. It usually starts at the grocery store where I am lured in by the latest deal. Ten pounds...
It's Tomato Time!
There are few times I advocate eating food from a can; one of those few foods are tomatoes. That’s because the majority of the year, save for the time we are in right now, those hot house grown tomatoes...
Grilling Up a Hot Summer Salad
In the dead of summer, menu planning often revolves around two main elements: barbecue and salads. During the summer when we can’t stand the heat, we do what what we do to get out of the kitchen. We...
Getting the Blues for Super Fruits
It seems that everywhere we turn these days there is some different food with marketers telling us that eating it is the new secret to a long and healthy life. There was pomegranate juice a few years...
A World of Beans
Beans are not one of those foods that you find people writing sonnets about. Aside from the well known children’s verse, “Beans, beans, the musical fruit”, only the story of Jack and the Beanstalk...
Thinking Inside and Outside the Bun for the Fourth
Fourth of July is around the corner and many of us are in the throes of finalizing menus. Chances are if you are having a barbecue and there are kids around, hot dogs will be on your grocery list. Unless...
A Plum Recipe for Summer Meals
Ever since Little Jack Horner stuck in his thumb and pulled out a plum, stone fruit and desserts have been linked in the minds of English speakers. Plums and their stone fruit cousins, nectarines and...