Posts by joanne
For easier weeknight meals, enroll in my Craftsy class and start cooking!
Want to learn some quick and easy family recipes? Sign up for my Craftsy class, “Cook Smarter: Solutions for Weeknight Dinners,” and you will find a variety of tasty entrees as well as many tips for getting dinner on the table fast. You can enroll in my Craftsy class today, right…
Holiday Recipe Collection
Each year as the Holidays approach, I get requests for many of the traditional recipes that everyone wants to make for entertaining. Here are a few of my favorites. Links to the recipes for the Collection appear below. Appetizers: Crispy Zucchini Sticks with Olive Dip (recipe) Oven-baked Rosemary Potato Chips (recipe)…
Quick Sticky Buns
This is one of the recipes that is so popular every time I make it and I thought I would share it here in case you are planning a Mother’s Day brunch. AKA Biscuit Sticky Buns, it is based on my very quick and easy Cream Biscuits recipe. These are perfect…
Roasted Red Pepper and Prosciutto Lasagna
Wonton skins, which can be found in the frozen food section of your supermarket, cook up beautifully, just like fresh Italian pasta, and I see no reason not to stock them in your freezer at home and thaw them out whenever you want to make “homemade” ravioli or lasagna. Your…
Rice: How do you cook rice?
A while ago I got an e-mail from Brent asking, “How long do you cook rice?” I thought I would just send him a link to my recipe for cooking rice and discovered that although I recommend serving my Simple Boiled Rice with several entrées, the recipe wasn’t up on the…
Simple Boiled Rice
Makes 4 to 6 servings Hands-on time: 3 minutes Total preparation time: 22 minutes Kosher salt 1 cup long grain white rice 2 tablespoons unsalted butter or to taste Freshly ground black pepper Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil over high heat. Gradually pour in the…
How to plan, purchase, prepare, and present Thanksgiving dinner.
Thanksgiving dinner is America’s favorite feast and as cooks ranging from experienced to first-timers head for kitchens across the country many questions arrive in my e-mail. With that thought in mind, I included a whole episode in Season Two of my show about Thanksgiving (you’ll find it just below); here…
Turkey: Where can I learn how to carve a turkey?
One of the questions I frequently get at this time of year is, “Where can I find out how to carve a turkey?” I have lots of information on the site about cooking and serving turkey and decided that carving the bird was the missing piece. Of the many guides…
This week on the show, we feature Meatless Mondays with Amanda Cohen.
There are so many exciting vegetable choices at the supermarket these days why not designate one day a week as a no meat meal. In Episode 507: Meatless Mondays, Amanda Cohen, chef of the much talked about NY restaurant ‘Dirt Candy’ introduces me to a fantastic new tool, called a…
Chinese take-out your favorite? On this week's show we make it at home.
If you feel a slave to takeout, Episode 506: Take out Chinese at Home is your episode. This week on Sara’s Weeknight Meals we will show how to make traditional Chinese takeout dishes at home faster than driving to pick them up. First stir-fry queen Grace Young shows her fast and easy…