• Chicken Picatta @ bestwithchocolate.com

    chicken piccata;

    March 6, 2017bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    Thin cutlets of chicken breast, lightly seasoned and pan seared, topped with a lemon-stock sauce and capers.  Perfect served over butter noodles, or another starch of your choice! – – Here’s another of my “tried and true”, keep going back to recipes!  I believe this is also another one of the first dishes I ever made that made me realize cooking didn’t have to be so hard!  I believe this is another Giada recipe, although to be perfectly honest, it’s been so long since I made it the first time, that I couldn’t even tell you if that’s really accurate.…

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  • Mushroom Risotto @ bestwithchocolate.com

    risotto;

    March 1, 2016bestwithchocolate@gmail.com

    This was actually the first time that I’ve made risotto on my own!  This was my last roommate’s go-to recipe when she wanted to cook, and let me tell you, it’s amazing.  It does take a little bit of a time investment, but some of my favorite memories from when we lived together were us chatting in the kitchen over a pot of risotto.  We also usually had glasses of wine in our hands.  I mean you need wine for the recipe, so obviously the natural extension was to sip on a glass!  I definitely recommend that; maybe I should add…

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