Almond tuiles are made by mixing the sliced almonds into the batter and then stenciled or shaped into round disks using a fork. Fine tuiles or what the French name tuiles fine, are stenciled and then garnished with almonds or other nuts or dried fruits.

Have you been to that party? You know the one where the host—let’s call him Innocent Ed—takes a stab at making barbecued chicken. Innocent Ed is a great guy but he is not much of a cook and he sees no use for cookbooks. He figures all guys can grill. It’s part of our genetic code. So ..

You can buy a piece of pork loin for four to ten people. If you shop for meat for o smaller crowd, the loin just becomes a thick pork chop. Makes 4 to 10 main-course servings.

A saffron rice timbale surrounded with this braised fennel makes a handsome centerpiece for a meal. The timbales are easily formed. Just pack the hot rice into a ramekin, then turn it onto the plate—a simple gesture that provides focus for a main dish. With a substitute for the butter, this dish ..

A bûche de noël, literally a Christmas log, is an elaborate rolled cake decorated with chocolate buttercream to look like a log. It can be as simple or as elaborate as you like. Meringue mushrooms are a classic decoration for this dessert; you can also use marzipan leaves, berries, and stems.

Most respectable sauces made at home and some of the better bottled sauces achieve a balance of sweet, sour, spicy, and salty.

Whitebait is an old English term for small bait type sized looking fish, dusted in flour and fried crispy, in Greece they are known as marides tiganites, which you guessed also means fried whitebait. Yep, you eat the whole fish - but because whitebait is always smaller than your pinky finger, ..

There is nothing like the fresh taste of homemade ice cream when flavored with fresh strawberries.

The best way to cook a t bone steak is by grilling it. Start by placing it over direct flame and then flipping it every 5 minutes to make sure that it does not burn. Cook the the wellness desired.

Grill-roast the peppers and peel them so they would be sweet and tender.

It's a french mussle recipe.

In the restaurant, we buy live langoustines, but these are difficult to find, so I suggest you use very fresh — or even frozen — ones from a good fishmonger. You can also do this recipe with crayfish (Risotto alla certosina) if you can find them. Crayfish are the freshwater version of ..

A petit four can be virtually any miniature sweet thing-never more than a bite or two-usually served after dinner with coffee. Professional pastry chefs divide petits fours into two types: dry petits fours, which are really just miniature cookies, and fresh petits fours, which are miniature cakes or ..

A jalousie - a window with slatted blinds - presumably gets its name for its ability to protect those inside from the inquiring eyes of jealous lovers. In any case, its easy to see the resemblance to this pastry which has slats on top that allow a peek at what is inside. A classic jalousie has a ..

This is the archetypal mussel dish, and deservedly so since it is almost impossible to improve it. Variations involve only different herbs and flavorings in the steaming liquid. Serve this dish as a first course or light main course with plenty of crusty French bread for dipping. Pour a crisp, cool ..

This tart is filled with passion fruit curd and topped with meringue stars. The curd base can also be used for berries and other fruits - just skip the meringue and arrange the fruit over the curd.

These are an authentic version of the Danish pastries most of us are used to seeing. They are filled with almond cream, raisins, and walnuts, butfillings are easy to improvise. Cream cheese filling, hazelnut cream, diced driedfruit, and cooked fresh fruit are all possibilities. Because these Danish ..

Before long the practice of slow-roasting whole hogs over smoldering wood became a favorite choice for outdoor shindigs, attracting large crowds and no small amount of revelry. During the twentieth century, many of the best pit masters in the south moved north and west, bringing their talent and new ..

What to look for in Chicken? Any chickens you buy should have skins that fit their bodies well, not spotty or shriveled or too far overlapping. The color of the skin says little about quality, but the smell of a chicken will tell everything you need to know about freshness. If it smells funny, ..

Steaming lobster allows you to cook it more slowly than boiling it, which leaves it more tender. It also allows you to make a little sauce from the lobsters’ juices. The sauce is rich, but much less rich than the customary drawn butter.

This is a very good fresh salsa recipe. Serve with tortilla chips, crackers, vegetables, fish, chicken or eggs.

Tortilla means "little cake" in Spanish, and refers to several different foods eaten in various Spanish speaking countries and parts of the United States. In Mexico, Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica) and the United States, "tortilla" refers ..