How could you go wrong with chicken wings especially ones that are grilled to crispy perfection? Making this meal brings back great memories of grilling up at the lake and relaxing with friends (also while grilling last night and the snow was falling really made me miss 90 degrees and tubing more than anything).
I opted […]
Ever since doing the mango habanero sauce I have been looking for other ways to get one of my favorite peppers into my cooking. Pineapple just seemed like a great natural fit and in fact pineapple and habanero go together like tuna fish and lamb.
Do not be scared by the fact that there is a […]
Arroz con pollo is Spanish for rice with chicken. It is chicken browned and then simmered in a tomato sauce with whatever vegetables you choose to make it with. There are thousands of different variations so add flavors that you really enjoy. Besides being flavorful it is also a very simple one pot meal that takes little […]
It is a sad day when the Washington Post posts an article exposing animal cruelty at a slaughterhouse that is a major supplier to the nation’s school lunch program (click here to read the article). If you are brave enough and actually want to see the video Chris Consentino has it on his blog (Click here to see the […]
Ok I have to admit this sauce actually started to scare me. I was constantly adjusting the sauce and it never tasted right. Luckily the last 2 changes I made by adding in the can of diced tomatoes and the molasses brought the sauce together. I had bought extra mangos and habanernos just in case […]
Ask 30 Italians the ingredients and recipe for any Italian dish and you will get 30 possibly 35 answers in return. This dish is no doubt of one of them from whether wine is used or water, are mushrooms included, do you stick with a standard sofrito or just do onion, pasta to serve it with, […]
For those of you who don’t think that attitude affect the end result trust me it does. This entire cook process I felt rushed and in no rythmn. No matter what CD I put on I could not get into the “groove” (I went from Joe Henry, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Wilco, to L.L. Cool J). So […]
For this dish you will need:
3-4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1 cup of dry vermouth
1/2 cup of chicken stock
10 pearl onions quartered
3 cloves of garlic chopped finely
1 tb of sage
1 tb of capers
1/4 cup all purpose flour
1 tb of butter
1 tb of cream
Kosher salt and black pepper
If you do not own Morimoto’s “The New Art of Japanese Cooking” I recommend you order it immediately. This cookbook is full of many many great recipes and many great tips. Plus hats off to a man who can be quoted as saying “I’ve purchased whole tunas that cost as much as a BMW” and […]
For this dish you are going to need:
1 chicken cut into quarters
1/2 cup white wine
1/2 cup chicken stock
6 pearl onions pealed and cut into half
2 cloves of garlic cut into thick slices
dozen parsley sprigs about 4 inches long
2 bay leaves
2 sprigs of thyme
2 tb of butter
1 tb of flour
1 cup heavy cream
Kosher salt, black pepper, […]
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