Amy Powell
Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan
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Hominy: The Story of a Canned Culinary Secret
Once upon a time in the Land of Earthquakes (California), young children were asked to bring canned goods to school to put in a classroom kit for earthquake preparedness. From across this small town,...
Pre-Game Day Game Plan
It is the Saturday before the Super Bowl and you head to the grocery store to do some pre-game shopping. Thinking you are ahead of the game with your Saturday morning shopping trip, you are shocked when...
Everyday Beef Bourguignon
Several years ago I hosted a dinner party themed around its main dish, such that the party eventually took on its own name among the attendees: “Beef, It’s What’s For Dinner.” As you can guess,...
Filling Greens for Chilly Weather
Winter is the season for dinners that fill the belly and warm us up from the inside out. That often means dishes rich with meat and heavy sauces like stews, or thick and oozing with cheese and cream like...
Soup and Salad: The Perfect Non-Diet Diet
I have never been one for diets. But it is the beginning of January, which means after over a month of over-indulging, even the most diet averse are starting to think about ways to slim down for the New...
Spicing Up a Good Luck Favorite
We could all use a little luck with the coming of the New Year. In America, particularly the American South, that often means sitting down to a bowl of black eyed peas. As the name suggests, the legume...
Thinking Outside the Christmas Dinner Box
It all started with a goose. Some years ago while I was living in New York, my parents called from California about five days before Christmas asking if it was possible to procure a goose for the holiday...
Waking Up For Christmas Eve
The night before Christmas can be filled with sleepless hours for many people, those who look forward to waking up in the morning to filled stockings and present-laden trees. For some, such as a lucky...
Tidings of Macaroni Comfort and Cheesy Joy
This season is full of good tidings of comfort and joy, and bellies full of comfort food. Putting together a menu for the holidays is akin to drawing up a “Best Of” list for all of our soul soothing...
Holiday Time Is Cookie Time
In case you haven’t noticed, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Whether you are party hopping or happily hostessing, the coming month promises a dizzying amount of revelries. In fact, December...
Holiday Basics Are Easy As Pie
Deciding what to cook for Thanksgiving is never very difficult; it is how to cook that is the hard part. For instance, you know there will be a turkey, but will you dry brine, wet brine, cook in a bag,...
Hot Chili for the Autumn Chill
Since the clock fell back last weekend, the evenings have instantly taken on the unmistakable feeling of autumn. Parts of the country have already had their first snowfall and others have felt a chill...
Swish Swish Your Way to a One-Pot Meal
What if I told you that dinner tonight could be on the table in 20 minutes, would include vegetables, beef, and soup, you could eat at a leisurely pace, and it just might entice the kids to sit down at...
Scary Foods: More Treats Than Tricks
Just like the monster lurking under the bed or those things that go bump in the night, there is nothing scarier than the unknown, and that goes for food too. When it comes to food, from childhood we are...
Take Me Home for the Ballgame
It has been a summer of “take me out to the ball game” but now it's time to take me “home” for the ball game. Summer is over and so ends the baseball season. With only the World Series left to...
Fresh Frozen Dinner, Meals on the Go
With the air not quite so warm and the sun not shining quite so bright, the nice thing about fall is that you get a lot more done on the weekends. Good or bad, it is somehow a relief to wake up to a cool...