Today’s Lunch: Cacio e Pepe

There are times when a surfeit of ingredients in a dish weave an intricate pattern of textures and flavors on your palette in a magical gustatory experience. Each bite proffers its own unique se... Read More

Recipes Page Fixed

Sorry about the mess on the website.. Upgrades, cobbler’s children.. Anyway, the recipes navigation link now connects you to an index of all the recipes posted on the site. I also got around to ... Read More

Today’s Lunch: Indian Tomato Soup with Coconut

I’m a tomato soup junkie. It’s been a comfort food of mine since I was young. The finest tomato soup I ever had was at Le Marais in New York. It was a Tomato Fennel Soup. I tried for years... Read More

Today’s Lunch: Parsley Fennel Salad Niçoise with Lemon Caper Mayonnaise

This was a simple put-together salad. So what makes it a “Salad Niçoise?” I tend to name things if I put several signature items into the dish. I’m not a purist when it comes to Sal... Read More

Today’s Lunch: Salad with Creamy Horseradish Mustard Dressing

In honor of the return of iceberg lettuce, I came up with a salad dressing that would add a bite to counterbalance the cool crispness of the lettuce. Then I added horseradish.... Read More

Cookbooks

There are a surfeit of cookbooks on the shelves, everything from pretty books that rattle off lists of ingredients whose duplication in the styled photos is next to impossible, to classic tomes that a... Read More

On Substitutions in Recipes

I have discussed ingredient substitutions in classes, and I will probably go on mentioning them here in my blog. They’re not cheating, they don’t fundamentally detract from the recipe and ... Read More

Salsa

[poll id=”2″] It’s always fun to take the same ingredients and turn them into very diverse products. In my Sauteing & Frying II class, it was almost the same mise en place for ea... Read More

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