Curried Chicken Salad (+ Mango Chutney)

This is THE BEST curried chicken salad I’ve ever made!  The inspiration was the version from Alon’s Bakery, which has dried apricots and red bell pepper and is DELICIOUS.  Roasting the chicken with the skin on helps keep it moist, and while using a store-bought rotisserie chicken is perfectly acceptable, your chicken salad will be…

Thanksgiving Panini (+ Cranberry Chutney)

OK so while I’m on a panini kick, using my empty-pot-with-canned-beans method (see last post)… I gave into an odd craving for Thanksgiving food in the middle of Spring and made an all-in-one sandwich.   You can use canned cranberry jelly if fresh cranberries aren’t available this time of year to make your own cranberry chutney. …

Pizza Panini

What’s your favorite kind of pizza?  I like pretty much any type of pizza, but sometimes it can get a little tricky to pick the slice up while it’s still hot without the cheese and toppings sliding off at the same time!  This panini sandwich contains all the great flavors of a pizza, minus the…

Lobster Roll

Summer is lobster season!  Probably my favorite seafood, beside salmon.  When we were on vacation in Maine, we had the BEST lobster rolls from a little place called Red’s Eats.  Nothing compares to the fresh lobster up there, straight off the boats.  But since I don’t have access to that kind of freshness here, I’ll…