When you can get the best ingredients, you are half way to a wonderful dish. It’s that simple. In the summer, there are no better…
Who would title a chef recipe chicken satay with fake-ass spicy peanut sauce? None other than Anthony Bourdain. This post is dedicated to him for his…
This is my season’s first crack at watermelon. Love the unique combination of jicama and watermelon. It’s easy to dice and toss these two together to…
Fish/ Gluten free/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Fish Koftas in Tomato and Cardamom Sauce | Engaging your Inner Chef
It has become more evident overtime that the success of a dish has less to do with the recipe, and everything to do with the state…
Appetizer/ convection steam/ David Lebovitz/ scalable/ Side
Cheese, Bacon and Arugula Soufflé in a Combi Steam Oven
Soufflé does not have to be sweet. This cheese, bacon and arugula soufflé is a savory one from David Lebovitz’s My Paris Kitchen. The key ingredients…
This scallops with orzo, tomatoes and ginger recipe comes from Eric Ripert. It feels like I’ve found the roadmap to many delicious everyday seafood dishes—with some…
There is a special place for garlic in my kitchen—right next to the chopping board, because it is the one ingredient I can’t do without. In…
Eric Ripert’s gochujang – Korean style shrimp bouillabaisse caught my attention when I began exploring his extensive seafood recipes. Making bouillabaisse has been on my to-do…
The idea of Giada’s burrata and kale salsa verde bruschetta came from Kim, at IHCC. Thank you, Kim for bringing this recipe to our attention. She…
If you like the taste of the sea, a seafood paella is hard to beat. This classic dish never gets old. A seafood paella reminds me…
It is much easier to eat healthy these days with the widely available gluten-free, low-fat and sugar substitutes out there. Heathy and delicious are achievable on…
breakfast/ cheese/ Dorie Greenspan/ Low fat/ Side/ Sugar free
Savory Apple Matafan | Baking Chez Moi
Dorie Greenspan got her inspiration for this apple matafan in her book Baking Chez Moi from the potato matafan, which was meant to stave off morning…
Dairy free/ David Lebovitz/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ Side/ Sugar free/ Toss
Beet Hummus | A Color Explosion
You see colors of the rainbow of the visible spectrum on this plate. It’s stunningly spring-like although it might not feel that way. We have been…
It’s a new beginning of sorts. It’s Spring! We are cooking along with a new chef, Eric Ripert, at IHCC for the next six months. That…
classics/ Dairy free/ David Lebovitz/ easy everyday/ Gluten free/ Low fat/ Side
Hard-cooked Eggs with Tarragon Mayonnaise | #Glutenfree #Dairyfree
I made hard-cooked eggs with tarragon mayonnaise, along with our friends at Cook-the-Book-Fridays. No surprise that it is a popular time to do something with eggs…
Braise/ Dairy free/ Gluten free/ my favorites/ Side/ Simmer/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Spiced Maqluba With Tomatoes and Tahini Sauce | A Feast with Rice
How do you turn rice from what’s normally a side dish into the centerpiece of a meal? Spanish Paella comes to mind. Last week, Yotam Ottolenghi…
Roasting is one of my favorite ways of cooking vegetables, especially squashes. Vegetables roasted at high temperature concentrate flavor in remarkable ways that steaming or sautéing…
There are reasons why numerous chefs have this dish, rigatoni with sausage and fennel, in their repertoire. Ina Garten, Martha Stewart, Lidia Bastianbich, Yotam Ottolenghi have…
Cooking cuisine of the world is almost as much fun as traveling to those places. The lamb shank tagine recipe comes from David Lebovitz’s My Paris…
This is a Rick Bayless recipe, except he uses pasilla chili, a mild chili similar to ancho chili, for the sauce. I have had a bag…
bread with preferment/ breakfast/ cheese/ Ina Garten/ Jeffery Hamelman/ Pantry essentials/ scalable/ Side/ Yeast bread
Herbed-Baked Eggs | Shirred Eggs
The herbed-baked eggs are also known as shirred eggs. A dish consisting of an egg that is placed in a small buttered dish and broiled until the white…
easy everyday/ Fish/ year round/ Yotam Ottolenghi
Pan-Seared Salmon With Celery, Olives & Capers | #Ottolenghi
The pan-seared salmon with celery, olives and capers dish is inspired by Yotam Ottolenghi. In a recent article he wrote on the New York Times, he…
Artichokes are produced year round in California and the peak season is from March to May. On the East Coast, I’m starting to see more globe…
This is a one-pot meal without any cooking whatsoever, other than boiling water. It is a great recipe I found in Jamie Oliver’s Comfort Food. Undoubtedly,…
How can a one-pot meal of chicken with Marsala, olives and blood oranges not be good? I like blood oranges and can’t have enough of them.…