You can use any berry you like in this basic muffin recipe. One trick: Toss the berries with flour; which keeps them from sinking in the muffin cups and all ending up on the bottom. Use muffin tins with 6-ounce cups. MAkes twelve 6-ounce muffins.

The word oyster is used as a common name for a number of distinct groups of bivalve molluscs which live in marine or brackish habitats. The valves are highly calcified. Some kinds of oyster are commonly consumed by humans, cooked or raw. Other kinds, such as pearl oysters, are not.

But if you buy a calf's head that has been carefully boned and rolled up and tied with string? a process that takes a lot of time and care? you know you are being given something that has been prepared by someone who doesn't cut corners. And if you go into a restaurant where calf's ..

This popular salad provides a delightful way to use leftover chicken, or to serve freshly cooked chicken in a different guise.

Creme brulée is made with the same basic ingredients as pots de creme - heavy cream and egg yolks - but is flavored with a whale vanilla bean and finished with a top layer of crunchy caramel. Makes six 5-ounce cremes brulees.

Croissant dough is similar to classic puff pastry dough - butter is folded in the dough to create layers - except that it is also leavened with yeast. You must take care not to let the yeast overferment while you're working with it, or it won't have any life left when you’re ready to ..

Where I come from in northern Italy, the local fish is all lake fish - especially perch — which we would cook and put under vinegar with vegetables, to bring to the table cold as part of the antipasti. The idea here is that you don't completely cook the fish in the pan but finish it off in ..

Here, "escalopes" refers to the thinly cut scallops of salmon fillet that are briefly broiled and paired with a light sorrel sauce. If you can't find sorrel, arugula may be substituted.

Finish this sauce with a little olive oil and use it as is or use it to build a more complex sauce. For example, you could cook some minced onion or shallot in olive oil with rosemary (or parsley, basil, or oregano) and garlic, then add the tomato sauce and simmer for 20 minutes. You could finish it ..

Sometimes I make this dish without the pancetta but with a little saffron instead. You brush the mackerel fillets with oil and a few saffron threads, then season them with salt. Heat a pan and add a little oil. When it is hot, put in the fish, skin side down, pressing it down so that all the skin ..

You need only around 1 1/2 tablespoons of the agrodolce sauce, but it is easier to blend a larger quantity. Any you don't need you can keep in the fridge for several weeks and use with roast fish or meat (remember, though, that it is quite sweet, so it is good to offset it with something a ..

Sushi is a Japanese dish consisting of cooked vinegared rice which is commonly topped with other ingredients, such as fish or other seafood, or put into rolls. Sliced raw fish by itself is called sashimi, as distinct from sushi.

We make this with what everyone in the kitchen now calls Margherita's chocolate sponge — it is the one we make for my daughter that doesn't contain eggs., as she is allergic to them. The chocolate sponge is layered with caramelized blood orange segments, and topped with rosewater ..

A quick healthy salad, great for any time of year.

Preserved lemon or lemon pickle is a condiment that is common in North African cuisine, especially Moroccan cuisine. It is also known as "country lemon" and leems. Diced, quartered, halved, or whole lemons are pickled in a brine of water, lemon juice, and salt; occasionally spices are ..

Grill what’s growing at the time. Vegetables in season locally have big advantages over whatever has been shipped from across the world. They are riper, so they taste better. That means you can grill them simply with great results. Plus, they cost less.

I serve it mainly as a dipping sauce for grilled shrimp, but it is very versatile -- good with any white fish, clams or even just a salad.

Skate is a great, great fish, with a fantastic flavor, and it's in season most of the year. In winter, I love it cooked this way, served with balsamic vinegar and pomegranate seeds, or in the summer, simply with a tomato salad. Sadly, as with so many of our favorite fish, we have taken too ..

Pork just tastes great on the grill. It is inherently juicy and tender but, of course, not every cut of pork should be grilled the same way.

In a world where you have time and energy to spare, you would take the fillets and steaks out of their packaging, sit them on top of some crushed ice in a bowl, cover them with plastic wrap to prevent them absorbing other aromas in the refrigerator, and replace the ice before it melts. But ..

Maybe a cliché, but this classic is easy to make and always good. You can bread the veal slices, or you can them. If using only flour, sauté the veal in clarified butter or olive oil, not whale butter, which won't get hot enough. The pan should be very hat and the veal cooked literally for ..