Roasted Chicken Breast with Spicy Passion Fruit Sauce – 2022 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®!
It’s the 2022 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®! For West Side Story, it’s Breast Side Story! We are LOVING the main course for our Mid-Century Dinner Party! Passion is the fashion when we are focusing on the modern and post-modern take on Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story. Steven Spielberg took on the classic (mid-century […]
Chicken Kebabs with Hot Honey Glaze – 2021 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®!
It’s the 2021 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®! For Promising Young Woman, it’s Promising Drunk Chicken! The theme this year is my version of a Spring Garden Party in honor of the Academy Awards being held in April. I don’t recall them being held this late and thought we should take advantage of that with […]
Announcing the 2021 Red Carpet Menu!
(NOTE: This post has been updated to include the recipe links for each dish below.) Happy Spring! Oh it’s been so long since we’ve gotten together. To say it’s been a crazy year is an understatement. I hope you’re all doing well and staying safe and healthy. There hasn’t been much to entertain us […]
Blackened Chicken – 2019 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®
It’s the 2019 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®! For BlackkKlansman it’s BlackkKluxsman. This movie… dare I say it’s Spike Lee’s best movie ever? I dare! I knew the story of Ron Stallworth before the movie came out and it was wild. This man still carries his KKK card signed by David Duke. Insane! The way […]
One Pan Wonder! Chicken Campagnola!
The weather is getting cooler. You can feel the hint of the cold weather to come and I am THRILLED! It puts a spring in my step and I get a LOT more done. It’s the weather that makes you want to come home after a long day to a warm, comforting dinner, especially as […]
Hot Stuff! Chicken Chili with Cannellini Beans & Cauliflower Rice!
HAPPY SUMMER! Yes, we are now officially into the very first day of Summer 2018. There is always so much promise of a great new season in the first days! Here in New York, we will look forward to sunny days, cool nights, and lots of fun activities. OK… overhot days, humid nights, and lots […]
Yes FORTY! 40 Cloves Garlic Chicken!
Cooking with my cousin, Lisa Lombardi has become a regular thing! She challenged me to come up with a great garlic-y chicken recipe which I was more than happy to take on. I remembered MANY years ago, a friend had asked the same thing of me and I’d found some recipe that used 40… yes […]
Oscar® Day! The 2018 Red Carpet Menu!
The world has been on fast forward since the 2018 Oscar® nominations were announced. I had the menu named in RECORD TIME – less than 48 hours – and then it was on to creating the actual recipes. There were some snags along the way for sure. I decide on a dish, see it in […]
Roast Chicken Breasts with Orange Marmalade Glaze – 2018 Red Carpet Menu for Oscar®
We have all gone through a time when we are old enough to start seeing who we’re going to be while still being young and needing guidance from our parents and clashing as we begin to crave full independence. The vacillation between feeling young and feeling “grown” while hormones are ebbing and flowing is, in […]
The KitchAnnette 2018 Red Carpet Menu is HERE!
This is my favorite time of year. We are deep into award season and the Oscar® nominations were just announced Tuesday morning! Ever since then, I’ve been a whirling dervish devising this year’s scrumptious menu followed by tweaking the movie posters to reflect my dishes!!! I have to admit… the buzz about a lot of […]
Raise a Glass to the Golden Globes with Champagne Chicken!
It’s a brand new year and Award Season has begun!!!! The 75th Golden Globes will kick it off and what better way to celebrate it than with a bit of bubbly… but no one said it had to be confined to your glass! Champagne Chicken is a dish that has a lot […]
Honey I Shrunk The Chicken – Lavender Lemon Honey Cornish Hens!
Chicken is a staple in many of our diets. There are countless ways to prepare it but it doesn’t seem as special sometimes. Now don’t get me wrong, I’m a chicken fan but… ya know… sometimes it seems a bit boring. Chicken again? Well, there’s a delicious option to have your chicken and eat it […]
The EASIEST Lemon Pepper Chicken!
My long-time great friend, Stefanie Sanabria, has become a workout warrior. She’s faced lots of challenges and always grabs them, deals with them, and surpasses their limitations tenfold! YEAH! She got me motivated to get back to the gym with vigor a couple of months back which resulted in me taking a “graceful” trip in […]
Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps!!!
It’s easy to get into cooking ruts and lately, I’ve broken free and have really been enjoying cooking things that are not my usual flavor profiles. I hope you’re following along!! In the past, I’d been “intimidated” by ingredients that aren’t as familiar, leaning on the go-to olive oil (which is fabulous) and probably skewing […]
2016 Red Carpet Menu Round-up
Another year of creating, cooking, and celebrating comes to a close! Last night’s Oscar celebration was FABULOUS!! Chris Rock did a great job hitting on all the controversy and being hilarious! I LOVED Louis C.K.’s presentation bit too! My guests were the BEST! Lots of yelling and eating and ruining everyone’s diets! Ha! I hope […]
“Cacc” of the Day! Chicken Cacciatore!
It’s been a whirlwind since the release of KitchAnnette™ Red Carpet Menus. And now that it’s Spring, JUICE THIS™ has been reinvigorated! Suffice to say, things are busy. But dinner still has to be made! Here’s one of the greatest dishes that is so easy and truly comes together in less than an hour… so good! Chicken […]
Extremely Proud – Incredible Roast & Mixed Bites of Carrots
I’m sending you these recipes really quickly because I am preparing for my guests! Time is going fast! We are Extremely Proud – Incredible Roast and want you to be too. A roast chicken is a really simple dish that you can almost make once a week and do so much with. And you don’t […]