Chicken Recipes

My neighbor, Mrs. Higgins, showed up at my back door with a basket of produce when the power went out in my neighborhood for three … Read more

For a while, I just accepted that chicken and dumplings wasn’t going to taste like that thick, soul-warming stew my grandmother used to make on … Read more

That specific, smoky-sweet scent of charred peppers hitting hot oil still takes me straight to my grandmother’s kitchen in El Paso, where the air always … Read more

My husband showed up at the back door with two kids and a dog I didn’t know was following him, and the only thing in … Read more

I was standing there in my robe, one eye open, watching the butter foam and sizzle like it was trying to escape the skillet. It … Read more

I figured cornbread was just a side dish that existed to soak up gravy. It took about twenty minutes for that assumption to fall apart … Read more

Third time in a week and the gravy still separated in the pan. That was the reality of my Tuesday afternoon, standing over a saucepan … Read more

The platter was scraped clean before the dessert menu was even brought out. I stood there holding the serving tongs, staring at the hollowed-out shells … Read more

I burned three acorn squash before I finally figured out why the maple brown sugar stuffing was turning bitter. It happened on a Tuesday night … Read more

I had been looking for a banana bread that actually stayed moist past day two. Not the kind that turns into a dense brick by … Read more