Amy Powell

Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan

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Super Bowl, (Slightly) Less Fried
Oh Super Bowl Sunday. Is there any other day quite like it? The spectacle…of junk food. The pageantry…of colorful snack chips. The pride…in dip. The battle… for best chicken wings. It is more...


A Little Chicken For Lentil Love
Legumes seem to forever fall into two categories. Under one column we find the staple food of vegans. Chickpeas, white beans, lentils (oh the lentils!), this is the central source of protein for those...


Winter Blues? Think Bolognese.
Is everyone you know on a juice cleanse right now? In my world it seems that way. I understand the desire to come clean after the holiday season of indulgence. But the notion of consuming nothing but...


One Pot Dinner and Defrost
This is the weather that chills to the bone. When your fingers are in a constant state of semi-numb and you have long since lost feeling at the tips of the toes, the last thing you want to be doing is...


From Eve's Indulgence To Morning's Resolutions
I’ve spent New Year’s Eve in about every way imaginable. There have been intimate home-cooked meals for four and large appetizer spreads for forty. I have been at a resort in Bali standing in line...


Whole Holiday Dinner, Easy and Impressive
Impressive: a word never far from my mind when dreaming up Christmas dinner. Easy: probably the last word I am thinking of when plotting for a full day in the kitchen. Impressive and easy are two words...


The Please Everyone Party Plan
You can't please everyone, as the old saying goes. But as any good host or hostess knows, you strive for exactly the opposite when having a party. You work the room refilling glasses, refreshing trays...


Grandmas Still Know Best
It took me a week to polish off the last crumbs of Thanksgiving’s apple pie. I had been slowly savoring it as each bite for me was a journey, with juicy apple redolent of fall spices, crunch of brown...


Don't Toss The Bird!
By the time you read this you are likely still eating leftovers from Thanksgiving. You’ve had turkey on sandwiches, turkey in soup, maybe even turkey in your breakfast hash. That turkey carcass is...


The Many Faces of Potato
Can Thanksgiving happen without potatoes? I suppose it could, in theory. But it wouldn’t be much of a Thanksgiving, would it, without at least two dishes of America’s favorite tuber? To give...


The Green Bean Casserole Alternative
Green bean casserole was not a part of my Thanksgiving upbringing. Green beans were, but not the casserole. Likewise with sweet potatoes and yams. They may have been served in the white ceramic dishes...


Things We Cooked In The Storm
The lights are back on in Lower Manhattan. This little experiment in living without electricity and hot water has blessedly come to an end for many of us in New York. Though it is not something I wish...


There's No Taste Like Home
What does homesickness taste like? Everyone is going to have a different answer. For me it is pretty simple. Homesickness tastes like the crispy edged carnitas from The Tacqueria in Hemet. It tastes...


Sweet, Savory, Spicy Squash
It seems like just yesterday the market was overrun with summer bounty. Then overnight, voila! The winter squash arrived. Great piles of pumpkins ready for jack-o-lanterns. Mountains of butternuts...


Be Your Own Butcher
About a week ago I was at the market, puzzled over the chicken case. Before me were many options. Thighs, breasts, wings, drumsticks. Boneless-skinless, and parts still attached. There were split breasts...


The Fish Who Came to Dinner
Too often at the fish counter I find myself going back to the same old choices. It is too bad, because I am blessed with a particularly nice fish market with a selection of imported and local specialties...