Amy Powell
Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan
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How to Get FAT This Tuesday
This Tuesday, precisely 47 days before Easter, people all over the world will celebrate in the centuries-old tradition of getting Fat. Fat Tuesday, or Mardi Gras, Shrove Tuesday, Pancake Tuesday, or Carnival...
A Battle Older Than the Super Bowl, Manhattan Versus New England
It is that time of year when the top two football teams in the country battle it out for the title of Super Bowl champions. This year the tensions are high as the Patriots and the Giants face off in a...
January Challenge Part IV: Reinventing Leftovers
Congratulations my ambitious Home Cook, you have almost made it through an entire month of pushing yourself to rethink your approach to consistently getting dinner on the table… from scratch. A month...
January Challenge Part III: Do-Ahead Dinner
Congratulations on making it to week 3 of the January Eat At Home Challenge. At this point we have made the New Year’s resolution to spend more nights in the kitchen preparing dinner and we have also...
January Challenge Part II: Menu Planning
Now that you have committed to eating out less and cooking more at home, whether through your own New Year’s resolution or in taking up the challenge outlined in last week’s column, it is time to follow...
January Cook-At-Home Resolution Challenge
Welcome to a new year and a new opportunity to fulfill those resolutions we always aspire to. If you take a look at most January magazine covers, it is pretty clear that this is the time of year to lose...
The Lazy Person's New Year's Eve
Right now, you might still be debating what to do on New Year's Eve. Should you travel to a happening spot like Vegas in order to go to an expensive, crowded club or should you shell out for an expensive,...
Dynamic Christmas Brunch, Dysfunctional Family
I may have found a new favorite Christmas movie and with it a host of inspiration for this year’s Christmas brunch. Many of us consider our families to be dysfunctional, particularly as we gather together...
Christmas Comes More Than Once This Year
How many Christmases are you having this year? Or will it be one Christmas, one Hanukkah, and perhaps a Kwanza dinner? After years of singular Christmas simplicity, this year it looks like my family...
An Easy Dinner Pho a Stress-Free Holiday Season
Welcome to the crazy season. As if the mounting pressure of impending holiday parties and gift buying was not bad enough, the unofficial name given to the start of the annual gift-giving holiday season...
The Last Word On Leftovers
Chances are that you read my article last week about simplifying your Thanksgiving menu and proceeded to completely ignore my advice. Don’t worry, I understand; I am sure I will succumb to the pressure...
A Thanksgiving Feast All Rolled Into Three
Did you ever see that episode from the first season of Friends where the gang’s Thanksgiving plans all get canceled? They end up staying together and Monica cooks. What starts as a simple gathering...
Before the Meat Season, Fall for Fish
Beware, for we are about to enter the carnivorous season. The months ahead promise both the white and the dark turkey, plates piled high with ham, trays of meaty canapés, and perhaps the occasional holiday...
Pomegranates: More Than a Marketing Campaign
Unless you have been living under a rock or have super powers that make you impervious to the ploys of marketing campaigns, you are probably aware that pomegranates are going to help you to live forever....
Something Wicked This Way Comes . . . For Dinner
Something wicked this way comes for dinner this Halloween. Unlike most Halloween meals that embrace the holiday with disgusting-looking but good-tasting fare (think peeled grapes as eye balls and bowls...
Winter Squash, From Decoration to Dinner
Unlike their sister vegetable the summer squash, which is harvested and consumed while the skin is thin, winter squash such as pumpkins are left to mature on the vine. The name “winter squash” has...