Ruth Roger’s ‘Italian Two Easy’ Spaghetti, Raw Tomato, Arugula Recipe

June 16, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Celebrity Cooks, Pasta Please at 12:25 pm | (1) Comment »

Ruth Rogers Recipe.jpg Just in time for the summer weekend, try this Ruth Roger’s Spaghetti, Raw Tomato, Arugula recipe. Allow this River Cafe chef treat your senses & relax your palate. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

4 plum tomatoes
2 garlic cloves
2 tablespoon capers
3 tablespoon black olives
3 tablespoon arugula leaves
3 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
11 oz spaghetti

Cut the tomatoes in half. Squeeze out excess juice and seeds, and chop the flesh coarsely. Peel the garlic and squash with 1 tsp sea salt. Crumble the chile. Rinse the capers, and pit the olives. Roughly chop the arugula.

Combine the tomatoes, garlic, chile, capers, and olives. Season generously, add the olive oil, and put aside for 30 minutes.

Cook the spaghetti in boiling salted water until al dente. Drain, and stir the pasta into the tomatoes. Add the arugula. Toss to coat each strand. Season with black pepper.

Serve with olive oil.

Note: Plum tomatoes are fleshy and easy to peel and have hardly any juice or seeds, which makes them ideal for rich, thick tomato sauces. This raw sauce should only be made in the summer, when you can buy sun-ripened plum tomatoes that are really sweet.

Eat well & Laugh often!

Ruth Rogers of London’s River Cafe Shares New Cookbook on CBS

June 16, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Celebrity Cooks, Tid Bits & News at 8:17 am | Comments »

Ruth Rogers Early Show.jpg The co-owner & executive chef of London’s trademark restaurant River Cafe, Ruth Rogers, has published her sixth cookbook with the cafe’s other owner, Rose Gray.

Italian Two Easy is the second volume of “simple & delicious” Italian recipes by Rogers & Gray. The two sought inspiration for the second cookbook while visiting Puglia, Italy; but you will find your taste buds enjoying recipes from Verona to Tuscany.

The “simple and delicious” philosophy of cooking is seen in their five former cookbooks, all best-sellers.

Rogers shared a few recipes from Italian Two Easy this morning in the final segment of The Early Show’s weeklong series, “Culinary Inspirations” in which chefs have been dishing it up for summer meal ideas.

Stay tuned for Ruth Roger’s Spaghetti, Raw tomato, Arugula recipe post coming soon.

Eat well & Laugh often!

Cooking with Amy Pomegranate Lamb Kebabs Recipe with Sumac Salad

June 15, 2006 | Posted by Allison as For the Grill, Recipe at 10:05 am | Comments »

Try this wonderful Cooking with Amy Pomegranate Lamb Kebabs recipe with Sumac Salad. A great weekend endeavor, the kabobs will knock your socks off & the salad will make you glad that it’s summer. Enjoy!

Pomegranate Lamb Kebabs Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 pound ground lamb
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/4 teaspoon salt
Several grinds of fresh pepper
1 clove minced garlic
1/4 cup bread crumbs
2 tablespoon minced white or red onion
2 teaspoon pomegranate syrup

What’s Next:

Mix all the ingredients and form 6 long flat meatballs. You can thread these onto skewers if grilling outdoors, but there is no need to if grilling on an indoor grill. Grill for several minutes until nicely browned on the outside and cooked through.

Sumac Salad Recipe

Ingredients:

1/2 English or hothouse cucumber, diced
1/4 cup diced onion
1 medium tomato, diced
2 tablespoon flat leaf parsley, chopped
1 teaspoon sumac
1 tablespoon olive oil

What’s Next:

Mix all the ingredients together and taste. If you need to you can add salt or lemon juice but if the tomatoes are flavorful you probably won’t need to.

Eat well & Laugh often!

Better for You Weight Watchers Oven Fried Chicken Recipe

June 14, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Weight Watchers Recipe & Handy Info, Yummy Can't Say No Chicken Recipes at 12:04 pm | (4) Comments »

Oven Fried Chicken.jpg Let’s not let Colonel Sanders get us down, allow this wonderful & better for you Weight Watchers Southern-Style Oven Fried Chicken recipe raise your spirits & lower your trans fat! This is really a great & guilt-free fried chicken recipe. Trust me & just try it.

Ingredients:

1/2 t. all-purpose flour
1/4 t. table salt
1/8 t. cayenne pepper
3 oz. buttermilk
3/4 C. corn flakes crumbs
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Go ahead & preheat oven to 365 F, or 185 C.

Lightly coat an 8 X 8 X 2-inch baking dish with nonstick cooking spray; set aside.

In a medium bowl- combine flour, salt & cayenne pepper.

Place buttermilk and corn flakes crumbs in 2 separate shallow bowls.

Roll chicken breast halves in flour mixture and evenly coat each side. Next dip chicken into buttermilk and then corn flakes crumbs.

Place coated chicken breasts in prepared baking dish. Bake until chicken is tender and no longer pink, about 20 minutes.

Eat well & Laugh often!

Lawsuit Trouble for KFC Over Cooking Oil

June 14, 2006 | Posted by Allison as Tid Bits & News at 10:04 am | Comments »

KFC Bucket.jpg It looks like bad news for KFC as well as any veteran customers of the fried chicken, fast food chain. Kentucky Fried Chicken was accused yesterday of knowingly using cooking oil that causes coronary heat disease in its American restaurants, no word as of yet if this cooking oil is being used in KFC’s outside the U.S.

Served with a multimillion dollar class action lawsuit by the Centre for Science in the Public Interest, or CSPI, KFC was quick to react with a statement.

A spokesperson for KFC’s parent company Yum! Brands stated, “This is a frivolous lawsuit completely without merit. We intend to vigorously defend our position.”

CSPI, a not-profit organization that campaigns for healthy eating, was ready with their own statement.

Executive director Michael Jacobson said: “By frying in such a dangerous oil, KFC is making its unsuspecting consumers’ arteries Extra Crispy.”

Apparently the American Kentucky Fried Chicken chains are using a very cheap, partially
hydrogenated cooking oil that is high in trans fat, noted by the US & Drug Administration as being a very harmful substance to the human body.

Well, it looks like I’ll have to give up Colonel Harland Sanders & my Sunday KFC bucket.

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