Recipe Blogs
End of Summer BBQ with Cajun Style Seafood Boil and Ice Cream Parfaits
Can you believe summer is almost over? As the days get shorter, I know my grilling time is limited. I love to get on the grill and finish out the season with a splashy barbeque. These recipes are great for impressing your dinner guests with a simple and delicious...
Summer Berry Pavlova
When I grew up in Texas, I remember my mother’s wonderful parties. She made everything from scratch. One of my mother's favorite desserts to make for a crowd was a Pavlova, a large meringue base filled with fruits and topped with whipped cream and of course ice...
Grilled Swordfish Steaks with Fennel and White Peach Salad and Garlicky Red Wine Vinaigrette
This recipe celebrates many of my favorite things about summer cooking...fresh fish on the grill paired with beautiful fruit and in this case, white peaches. Whether you are making lunch for two or want to double the recipe for a dinner party, these swordfish steaks...
New Year’s Eve Prosecco Cocktail with Elderflower and Rosemary
We can all agree that a bubbly Prosecco cocktail has a way of making any occasion into a special night to remember. This has been a tough year on all of us, but sharing stories with friends over cocktails has been a pastime that brings me so much joy. After all, my...
Make The Ultimate Chicken Noodle Soup with Corn and Saffron
Picture this: It's a chilly Fall day and you're wrapped up in your favorite fleece blanket with a cup of chicken noodle soup and your favorite new show on the TV. Is there anything better?? Every once in a while I crave a cozy night in. When this happens, I can't help...
Learn My Secrets to the Best Sweet-and-Sour Brisket
I've posted several brisket recipes in the past, but bar none, this year's brisket is the best I've ever made. It's so perfectly tender that it melts in your mouth. The Perfect Brisket Let me tell you, I've had my fair share of tough, chewy brisket in my life. After...
Smoky Southwestern Chicken Salad with a Tequila-Green Onion Marinade
Nothing says summer food like corn!! This is especially true out in the Hamptons where the corn is so sweet you could eat it for dessert. Almost every day since mid-July, my husband has gone to our local farm stand to pick up corn. We boil it, roast it, and grill it...
Easy Thai-Inspired Carrot Salad For Your Summer Menu
If you're not making carrot salads, you're seriously missing out! Roasted or stewed carrots are wonderful, but the sweet, fresh, and crunchy elements of a raw carrot salad will turn even the biggest carrot haters around. A little fun fact: Moroccans brought carrot...
Cauliflower Gratin
I don't know about you, but when I hear the word gratin, my ears perk up. At its core, gratin is a dish of melted cheese and butter with a crust of breadcrumbs on top. It's one of those dishes that puts the word comfort in comfort food. The classic French preparation...
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with My Favorite Green-Themed Dishes
Whether you're Irish or Irish in spirit, we can all agree that St. Patrick's Day is a fun excuse to break out our spring colors and eat all of the greens. Some go the more traditional route with Irish soda bread and corned beef and cabbage, while others go for the...
The Best Passover Recipes
Spring is in the air and Passover has a particularly special meaning this time around. Ultimately, Passover is a celebration of freedom. It's a holiday that commemorates the exodus of the Jews from slavery in Egypt. A Passover seder is the feast that marks the...
Eat Your Heart Out With My Spice-Braised Lamb Shanks with Apricots
Did you know, there's a reason why lamb is so popular on the menu during the winter months? Lamb is considered a "warming food." In the world of Traditional Chinese Medicine, it's been used to help fight the cold and improve circulation during the chilly months. I...
Your Valentine’s Day Just Got Sweeter With My Date Night Recipe Trio
It’s that time of year! Valentine’s Day is one of my favorite holidays for many reasons. It's a time when we can make intimate dinners with champagne cocktails and decadent desserts. This Valentine’s Day, I’m feeling a little extra appreciative of the love in my life....
Fall is Here. Make The Best Apple Cake Recipe!
I have a confession to make: Sometimes I get so caught up with life that I don’t have time to create new recipes! When this happens, one of my favorite things to do is search online for recipes that inspire me. Recently, I took a recipe break and stumbled upon an...
SUMMERY CHARRED BROCCOLI SALAD with CHEDDAR, DATES and ALMONDS
The minute I get a new cookbook, I love to flip through the pages and pick out a couple of recipes that inspire me. I recently picked up a copy of Carla Lalli Music’s new book Where Cooking Begins (which is fabulous, by the way!) One of the first recipes that caught...
3 CROWD-PLEASING FUN and FRUITY DRINKS For MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND
I'm officially in summer mode! It's almost June and that means Memorial Day Weekend is upon us. You know how much I love a good cocktail when I'm grilling! Since I spend a lot of my time out in the Hamptons during the summer, I love making the most out of the local...
YOU WANT TO TALK TURKEY, MASHED POTATOES and CHOCOLATE PECAN PIE?
Making up for Lost Time Can you believe that after all these years together, that I’ve never shared my turkey recipe with ya'll? Today, not only am I sharing my tips for the perfect bird, but also my favorite Garlic Roasted Mashed Potatoes and the most decadent way to...
CHEF MARK STRAUSMAN COOKS UP CHICKEN PAILLARD and BLUEBERRY CRISP
Flirting (Cooking) with a Friend By now you know how much joy I get from sharing my kitchen with loved ones. To me, life comes together over the stove and bonds are formed at the table. It's why I love to have my many talented friends and family come into my kitchen...
PERFECT SUMMER GRAND AIOLI
The Grand Provencal Spirit The warm air waving perfumed breezes of wild thyme, sage, rosemary, lavender, and fennel. Our senses titillated by the aromas and warmth of Provence in the summer. I'm so in love with every one of these flavors, aren’t you? One of the famed...
5 LIFE-HACK MEMORIAL DAY RECIPES TO MAKE ANY CROWD HAPPY
Question: Dear Pamela, I’m sweating the guest list for this first holiday weekend of the summer. I’ve got families meeting for the first time, feuding friends, vegetarians and meat eaters! How can I cook and prepare to toast the unofficial start of summer with...
New Year, Same Me, New View!
New Flavors, Same Pamela, New Year! As many of you know, already, I've been working on my second cookbook. The book is part memoir and it’s forcing me to go deeply into my past . I'm having to re-evaluate my brand to make sure that I'm giving you the Pamela Morgan...
THE BEST NEW YEAR’S EVE DRINKS!
What a year! There is so much to process and much to be thankful for. This was a monumental year for me with the marriage of my son and the selling of our Hamptons' Home. And it certainly was a monumental year for America with the results of the election, but I won’t...
THE 5 BEST THANKSGIVING RECIPES!
Healing through Homecooking I hope the stress and shock of the election is behind us. Whatever candidate you voted for, I’m sure you’re still feeling, as I am, the aftershocks of this year’s election. What can we do to lighten up? For me, one of the most...
Simple Spring Dinner
Sorry that this is not at our regular posting time. Life is a little challenging on crutches!! The combination of being at my parents' home in California and my recent tumble in Aspen has left me feeling nostalgic. It has allowed me to slow down, spend time...
Cloud Nine, Cooking, & Crutches!!
Everyone deserves an award for a job well done. Don’t you think?? I thought what better way to pat myself on the back for cleaning and organizing my mother's house than a family ski trip to Aspen? I love Aspen and I usually like Spring skiing. The sun is shining, the...
Valentine’s Day Recipes Part 2
Valentine's Day Recipes Part 2!!! If you're still looking for a few sexy, and flirtatious Valentine's Day recipes, then we have more for you! We have been whipping up some decadent sweets! Espresso Chocolate Cake This recipe was inspired by an online cooking course...
NEWS FLASH!!! VALENTINE’S DAY RECIPES
NEWS FLASH!!! Beat Bobby Flay I'm excited to be a judge on the 7th season of beat Bobby Flay. My episode is premiering on Thursday, February 11th at 10PM. Make sure to set your DVR to see who wins the battle. Continuing on... if you're looking for a few sexy, and...
Pleasurable Eating Bonus Video: A Vinaigrette DIY!
What's a salad without a little vinaigrette? Last week, I introduced to you weight loss expert Jena la Flamme. She wrote an incredible book on pleasurable weight loss (get it here) We danced and chatted and made a gorgeous salad! If you missed it, click here to...
Put That Thanksgiving Stress To Rest With My Secret Ingredient Sweet Potatoes
Is it really almost Thanksgiving?! I’m sure we all feel the same way about 2020: CONFUSED. I don’t know about you, but I’m ready for 2021. 😂 Although Thanksgiving will be a little different this year, it doesn’t have to be any less delicious! My husband and I have a...
Stylish Cooking for Weeknights
Ceslie Armstrong from the You, Better show asked to come to my kitchen last week during her Fashion Week reporting. She requested that I cook a healthy and stylish dish for her audience, so I created this recipe. This is truly healthy cooking at its finest--teeming...
