SATURDAY (Easy Entertaining) -- Our guests wanted the recipe for lemon caper chicken (see recipe). Serve over fettucine tossed in olive oil. Add a mixed green salad and Italian bread. Buy fruit tarts ...

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Golden chicken, caramelized shallots, briny capers and a velvety lemon-butter sauce — chicken piccata is a dinnertime indulgence that's shocking quick and easy to make. But what is piccata? Piccata is ...

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Every cook needs a recipe with ingredients you can grab in a hurry from the closest market, and a cooking method for those ingredients that takes minutes. Here's a quick dish that looks like more than ...

When you need dinner on the table fast, skillet chicken recipes are your secret weapon. These one-pan wonders deliver maximum flavor with minimal fuss—just toss everything into a skillet and let it ...

It’s finally grilling season, and this simple Greek-inspired chicken is exactly the sort of low-effort dinner that earns a permanent spot in the rotation. A marinade of lemon, olive oil, garlic, and ...

The pungent flavor of capers lends piquancy to the sauce of this elegant dish. Accompanied by capellini pasta (or fluffy long-grain white rice), crusty bread, and a crisp green salad, this dish saves ...

Roasted chicken. Chef Thomas Keller waxed poetic about it on a recent episode of “Charlie Rose.” It has “reference points,” he noted. A big browned bird signals the arrival of the holidays, or a ...