Posts written by Charlyne Mattox
6 Ridiculously Easy Homemade Salad Dressings
A dressing can make or break a salad. Too much and it becomes a soggy mess, too little and it’s tasteless, too acidic and you pucker with every bite. Here are six simple dressings [...]
Healthy Salad Week Three!
Spring seems to have arrived so early this year (fingers crossed we won’t have a cold snap!) which gets me really excited about one of my favorite vegetables—mushrooms!! Chanterelles and morels aren’t in the [...]
Healthy Salad, Week Two
This salad was the bomb!! As my co-worker said while eating it, “I can feel the energy running through me”. I took one 5-ounce container of braising greens (essentially different types of kale torn [...]
Healthy Lunch Salad Ideas
I have probably mentioned before – when we are developing recipes in the Real Simple test kitchen we tend to do a lot of eating, and more eating. and even more eating! Some days it’s [...]
How NOT to Break an Egg
In the test kitchen earlier today I was working on a cake recipe. Trying to save time while making the batter I decided to break the egg on the rim of the bowl, while [...]
Flor de Jamacia a.k.a. Hibiscus Tea
I bought this loose dried hibiscus tea (it’s actually the sepal from the Hibiscus flower) in my local market a couple of weeks ago. I was first attracted by the beautiful purple/pink color and [...]
Hearty Winter Soup
I love making big batches of soup in the winter and eating them for days and days. It’s always amazing how the flavor changes and morphs as the soup ages. Above is my latest [...]
What is Parsley Root?
I live in a very ethnically diverse neighborhood—Jackson Heights, Queens. Within 20 blocks we have at least five Indian grocery stores, three Asian markets, and many, many Latin bodegas. So on most trips to [...]
My Favorite Childhood Cookbooks
My mom recently mailed me two of my most cherished childhood possessions—my first cookbooks. She must have been reading my mind because I have been thinking of these books a lot lately—they invoke a [...]
Do You Grill in the Fall and Winter?
This past weekend in the Northeast we had our first snow storm of the year. Originally it was predicted that we would get 8 to 12-inches….we woke up Sunday morning to 24 plus inches!! [...]
