Dinner’s On The Table - Personal Chef Service

I just read in article in the Poughkeepsie Journal with ideas for your staycation.  I’m going to try to give some ideas that, with a little imagination, will make you feel like you’re at the shore, or the lake, or just not stuck at home!
We took a wonderful vacation a few years back on Cape […]

     If you do a search for a Creamy Pinto Bean Soup online you will find dozens of recipes. As we usually do, we found a recipe that sounded good and tested it out. By itself it was an excellent soup. But we wanted to make it for dinner and have it be satisfying as well as a well-rounded […]

     Helloooo Salad! As Norton from the Honeymooners would say if he were addressing his salad instead of a baseball. We always fall back on the tried and true salad to cut back on our calories and fat when we’re looking to drop a few pounds. Besides, a big hearty salad tastes really good every […]

     It’s cold and snowy outside. The wind chill is giving your goose bumps, goose bumps. You CRAVE soup! Soups are some of the most wonderful dishes to enjoy. They’re delicious, filling, and usually inexpensive to make. But they are time consuming to make as well.
     So, in the modern age we reach for a […]

We were asked the question whether hummus was healthier than mayonnaise. Hummus wins hands down. Here are the facts:
     Sabras Hummus, which is by far our favorite store bought hummus, has 6g fat, 1g saturated fat, and 130mg sodium for a 2 tablespoon serving.
     Regular Mayonnaise has 11g fat, 1.5g saturated fat, 10mg cholesterol and […]

     Both Jill and I were snow bound, sick bunnies last night. The first time in years we hadn’t spent New Year’s Eve with friends. And we found ourselves without a store-bought onion soup mix to make a dip with. (Shutter to think of it!)
     So, I hit the pantry. We keep brown gravy […]

My husband and I are on a hummus kick.  It’s one of the healthiest dips out there.  What could be bad about chick peas, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and tahini?  Add some roasted garlic, olives, roasted red peppers or pine nuts and it’s even better.  There are so many things you can do with […]

About a year ago, we decided to try out a new restaurant in Hyde Park.  Rocco’s opened across from the Culinary Institute a few months earlier and we hadn’t tried it yet, so we stopped in for a slice of pizza.  They had a great selection of pies along with my husbands favorite, rice balls.  […]

Don’t you just crave that wonderfully crunchy, creamy, shrimp toast that you can order at your favorite Chinese Restaurant? We don’t want to know what’s in them. Nope.
But there is hope for shrimp toast lovers who are on a strict diet. Here’s a recipe that is baked, not fried, and we can contest is VERY […]