The best recipes, improved
This dish presents a wonderful combination of flavors: sweet, salt, fat, and acid. It has a warmer flavor profile with the lovely brightness of apple. The onions sautéed in olive oil with the reduced brandy is a favorite. At first, when reducing, the broth will […]
A cheese gougères is basically a savory choux pastry: cheese is blended in to the batter and sprinkled on top. This serves well as an elegant bread to accompany any dish. I have aspirations to fill my next batch with a crème fraîche chive or […]
The delicate, buttery texture of sockeye salmon paired with the smokiness, lemon, dill, and cream is unbeatable. Be sure to salt to taste, and be wary of the lemon balance. Next time we’re looking at more steak-sized smoked salmon. This is best with handmade pasta if you […]
This lasagna is hearty, robust and the sauce + ricotta mixture provides amazing flavor. Most of the time devoted to this recipe goes to the sauce: it is phenomenal and well worth it. We make this on a weekend day and look forward to having […]
What better way to enjoy an already delicious vegetable? Smother it in cream and cheese, and baked until crispy.
Citrus is a lovely component of a chicken dish. The acids plus salt bring this whole mixture together, with some strong flavors that tend to fight for attention. This is an easy one to double and yield 4 chicken breasts, which is what we did […]
This is a great way to enjoy a cream sauce without a heavy plate. The lemon brightens up this dish, and the vegetable stock keeps the sauce from getting too heavy. The quantity of lemon is tough to get right, and you’ll notice that the […]
Our continuing journey to demystify Japanese cuisine brought us to a miso soy marinade. Sea bass is a fantastic canvas for such a process, especially if skin-on fillets are available. The marinade was a little tough to get right, and in the end the sweetness […]
Cooking fish properly is hard: it’s so easy to overcook! We keep practicing and are finally starting to get it down. I’ve been theorizing that it takes just less than 3 minutes per 1/4″ thickness of the fillet, split between each side. Be sure to […]
For a healthy take on an exquisite Italian dish, put the pasta aside and grab a vegetable peeler! Zucchini manicotti still lets us enjoy the gooey cheese without the heaviness of pasta. Hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
Shepherd’s pie is something my vegetarian wife never gets to experience, so of course I was on a mission to share the warm, hearty, comforting-on-a-cold-winter-day dish with her. We found the Tasty recipe fairly spot on, but of course it wouldn’t be here with out […]