Amy Powell
Specialty: 30 Minute Meals
Education:French Culinary Institute, Cornell University
Lives: Manhattan
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Not-Quite-Instant Noodles
The appeal of a cup of noodles is undeniable. Ask any college graduate and there was probably a time in his or her life when instant noodles were such a diet essential they could have been their own food...
Let the Sun Shine With Citrus
The dead of winter is typically not the time I think of a bountiful harvest. And yet in the midst of the blustery weather that is exactly what I have found: heavy tree limbs dripping with golden orbs...
Getting (Your Hands) Dirty on Valentine's Day
Almost everything about Valentine’s Day is dainty and fragile: balloons that pop, flowers that wilt, chocolates that melt, hearts that can fill with hope and moments later crush with disappointment....
Cheesehead Spread
This Super Bowl, you are Cheesehead or you’re not, and food is no exception. If your Super Bowl party is a one-family affair, making a spread to reflect your household’s allegiance is easy enough....
The Secret Is In The Sauce
Winter calls for hearty foods: braised lamb shanks, beef stew, cassoulet. Those are well and good dishes for a long Saturday of cooking or when prepared by someone else in a restaurant. On a weeknight,...
Juicy Pork, No Scary Ingredients Required
In a Sunday night pinch last weekend, my boyfriend and I found ourselves at the local Safeway staring at a bunch of plastic wrapped logs of meats wondering what to cook for dinner. In an ideal world we...
One Can, Two Dinners For Two
If there is a time of year to be like a squirrel, this would be it. Lucky for us humans storing up for winter hibernation does not require months of stowing away acorns to get through the long cold months....
Resolution: Simplify
Dear Diary, Happy 2011. Another year over, another year of resolutions: some fulfilled, some abandoned, others achieved with varying degrees of success. Luckily I no longer make pointless resolutions...
No Holds Barred For New Year's
Face it, whatever your plans are for New Years Eve, the food plan should come down to one thing: eat whatever you want because tomorrow the diet starts. For some people this plan might involve sharing...
A Better, Edible Fruitcake
Fruitcake. The very word is enough to make the most die-hard Christmas fanatic shudder. But when was the last time you had a fruitcake? It was probably more recently that you think. And you just might...
A Quick Dinner For A Stress-Free Christmas Eve
Cooking a fast, healthy, and pleasing dinner for the family during the holidays can be a challenge, and Christmas Eve is no exception. Like the other nights in December, there is a good chance that dinner...
Classic Twists for No-Fail Parties
Party season is upon us and so begins the search for the perfect cocktail party spread. When putting together the menu the tension is always going to be between the desire to have crowd-pleasing recipes...
Turkey Day Detox
Some people love Thanksgiving only for the leftovers. Forget the main meal. That solitary midnight sandwich with the unlikely combination of carved turkey, cranberry sauce, stuffing, and maybe a smear...
Five Minute Fixes for Thanksgiving Sides
The mere suggestion of tweaking classic recipes at Thanksgiving has the potential to cause a familial uprising. I remember the year my younger brother first took over the turkey roasting. His personal...
Thanksgiving Dinner's Late? There's an App for That.
Thanksgiving always begins with the best intentions. Guests are told when to arrive and what to bring. The turkey goes in the oven anticipating that it will be coming out with crisp golden brown skin...
This Halloween, The Great Pumpkin Is For Real
Like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear, every year people just like me eagerly await Halloween if only for the promise of everything pumpkin. Sure carving Jack O’Lanterns is great, but what...