Here is an example of steaming clams, rather than shucking them, for baking, and then using the steaming liquid in the stuffing for the recipe, or reserving it for another use. You can also make your own stuffing—actually a flavorful bed for the clams — with vegetables other than spinach and use ..

Remember learning to roll-cut vegetables? Eating brown rice every day? Sipping miso soup for breakfast? If this is what you were doing in your commune, then you know how nice it is to return to this food on occasion. It's clean and wholesome and leaves you feeling the same. And even if memory ..

Act like you've been there before. Vince Lombardi said it about the end zone but it applies to the grill zone, too. Be professional. Just like the pros, a great griller should have a "game face." Translation: No crazy flips in either zone. As a general rule, most foods need to be ..

Easy to multiply, utterly simple, and delicious, this flat omelet is especially good when made with smoky mozzarella and fresh corn. And if you aren’t up to inverting the eggs, and all of that, this combination of elements makes terrific scrambled eggs, too. Grilled corn as well as fresh is ..

Although I’m always cooking new dishes, this gratin is one I return to every summer. I'm especially fond of it covered with saffron-infused ricotta, at la the late Richard Olney, who influenced so many of today’s cooks and whose recipes are justifiably classics. It’s also lovely when the ..

Maybe not a traditional Cinco De mayo dish... however 26 years ago this was the day I asked my wife to marry me, and she likes filet mignon. The parsley butter provides a bright flavor to the savory filet...

You can also cut and make ravioli from the sheets of fresh pasta dough.

Italian meringue is almost identical to that gooey white frosting we see fluffed on chocolate cakes. When used as a frosting, it's made slightly differently but traditionally it is made by beating soft ball-stage sugar syrup into egg whites.

These are decadent. The combination of lamb and beef is good enough but when you add all the herbs and the light and refreshing cucumber sauce in a pita, heavenly.

Lobster Thermidor is a French dish consisting of a creamy mixture of cooked lobster meat, egg yolks, and cognac or brandy, stuffed into a lobster shell, and optionally served with an oven-browned cheese crust, typically Gruyère. The sauce must contain mustard (typically powdered mustard).

You could do this under the grill as well.

Pot lucks can be a great opportunity for surprising taste buds, and this gratin is inspired by one that showed up at a Slow Food supper in Santa Fe. If you garden, this recipe will let you harvest your excess radicchio, for three heads won’t be too much. Like all greens, their volume diminishes ..

Skate wings are the edible portions of the skate. When cooked, the flesh separates into little fingers of meat that have a distinctive, rich, gelatinous texture accompanied by a mild flavor similar to that of scallop meat. Raw skate meat is slightly off-white, sometimes pinkish. When cooked, the ..

Much like rye bread, recipes for whole wheat bread often include some bread flour to provide extra gluten. Because whole wheatflour contains the bran, these minute pieces of the broken-up seed coats of the grain cut through the gluten structure and weaken it. The added bread flour helps keep the ..

Because it is less sweet and less rich than most frostings, stabilized whipped cream makes a wonderful filling or icing for a cake. The cream allows the flavor of the cake to come through in a way that buttercream, for instance, does not. Gelatin keeps the cream from softening and losing its ..

The complexity of a tomato soup is inversely proportionate to the quality of the tomatoes. When you have perfect in season ripe tomatoes, just peel, seed, and chop them and put them in a pot. Bring them to a simmer and they will release enough liquid to turn them into a soup. If you insist on being ..

These are seasoned with extra fresh chile, chipotle, and cilantro to overcome the neutrality of the tofu. As with the others, you can serve them with a side of black beans or pinto beans. I’d have something silky and sweet for dessert, such as a sliced mango with lime, and instead of wine, quaff ..