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Like so many fancy-sounding French specialties, this dish gets its identity from a relatively small component - the garnish typical of most things served at la bourguignonne: glazed pearl onions, mushrooms, and little strips of lightly crisped bacon, known as lardoons. Also, unlike Irish Beef Stew ..

Rib eye steaks are simply one of the juiciest and tender steaks available. While being quick to grill, dinner can be ready in a flash.

It is best to choose salmon that is cut from the thickest part of the fish, so filets will remain more moist when cooked. If you want to remove the bones from the salmon rub your fingers over the salmon to find the line of bones. Remove each bone with your fingers, tweezers, or pliers.

These little parcels, wrapped in their string, look exceptionally inviting. Both fillings are hearty and they go with the sweet-and-sour tomato sauce. For cabbage, try to find Savoy—the one with crinkly leaves that look like majolica—it’s sweet and gorgeous. The dish is vegan if the filling ..

Thinly sliced citrus fruits, lightly candied in sugar syrup, make an elegant tapping far tarts and tartlets. They pravide a concentrated flavor with a delightful hint af bitterness.

We use focaccia dough to make garlic, eggplant, and sun-dried tomato and sage bread, or cabbage, potato and buckwheat broad.

Salmon is one of the healthiest foods you can eat. It's bursting with omega-3 fatty acids, protein, vitamins, and minerals. It may help reduce the chance of developing heart disease and Alzheimers. In fact, the American Heart Association recommends eating some type of fatty fish at least twice ..

When Is It Done? Check the thigh meat by inserting the probe of a thermometer in the thickest part [but not touching the bone]. The juices should run clear and the meat should no longer be pink at the bone.

Besides its use for a linzertorte, linzer pastry dough can also be used to make cookies - one restaurant in Paris saves the tiny raspberry seeds left in the strainer used for making coulis, cooks the seeds with a little sugar; and spreads the mixture over a sheet of linzer dough. Another sheet is ..

This is a spring risotto — for when the nettles are growing everywhere. Food for free. Just remember to handle the nettles with gloves, or avoid touching the stalks, which are the part with the sting. In the restaurant, we garnish this risotto with deep—fried nettle leaves.

While most of us can find pita bread at the supermarket, storebought versions will never have the flavor and texture of freshly baked. Makes eight 6-inch pita breads.

This is a fresh tasting antipasto that is very easy to make. It also makes a great lunch dish.

Thai basil, with its warm, spicy overtones and beautiful purple-edged leaves, is the one to use here, but any other variety will work too. Use whatever variety you have and keep this dish in mind for when you do find Thai basil at your market. An off-dry Riesling, such as a German Kabinett, would be ..

If you make a let of stir-fries, keep some of this stock to have on hand to replace the 1/2 cup or so of chicken stock that is usually called for in stir-fries. It will keep, refrigerated, for at least a week. If you don't use it that quickly, make half the quantity or plan to freeze what you ..

Today many of the best barbecue restaurants stake their reputations on pork. In places like Memphis and Kansas City, ribs rule. In the Carolinas and other parts of the South, pulled pork is the specialty. You will find barbecued or grilled pork dishes in just about every great restaurant in America. ..

Bresaola of beef is another of our Lombardia specialities from the Valtellina valley. It is raw filet that has been salted, marinated in wine and herbs, and then air—dried to give it a lovely, delicate flavor. It is sliced very thin to serve as an antipasto, traditionally with oil, lemon juice and ..

When making vegetable broth, cut the vegetables uniformly so they look attractive, or cut them into julienne. The bright tangle of vegetables on tap of the seafood makes an attractive garnish. The time·consuming part of this dish— the julienned vegetables and the broth — can be done ahead of ..