Appetizers, Fish and Seafood, Main Dishes
Poking around the fish case in the North Main St. IGA, I found this cute little box of salt cod and experienced a near-Pavlovian reaction. When was the last time I had a nice garlicky brandade or baccala or any of its cousins? I do remember my first at the old Provence restaurant on Sullivan St. in Soho. [...]
Times being tough and all, it's good to know that Julia Child's blini recipe delivers a great return on investment. I made these for the Mildred Pierce Chicken Kiev Beragon post when I theorized that if Mildred had set her sights on this elegant upscale pancake, rather than her pedestrian specialty of waffles, she may have been able to [...]
ALL RECIPES, Appetizers, Main Dishes, Vegetables
Well it's been quite a summer in the kitchen, a strong run of well-received successes. Not that I'd post the losers, so thankfully only one or two disappointments occurred. Spec D's commitment to superlative dishes regardless of the effort, expense, obscurity or complexity marches on. However, from time to time other smaller inconveniences occured. Like here with this Tarte a l'Oignon, which I'd intended to [...]
What a delicious looking plate of olives! See how they glisten. So plump, so full of salty promise. Juicy, right? Try one. Try another… Oh ha ha ha! The reason you can't pick some of them up is half the olives on the plate are fakes — shiny, [...]
ALL RECIPES, Appetizers, Charcuterie
Though you've often heard me rail against food-fads I confess I too have feet of clay. The siren song of the abattoir compounded by sibling rivalry instigated by my brother Kevin's Christmas triumph of home-cured and smoked bacon, grilled over hot colds in thick, sizzling slices was too much to bear. There was no stopping my leap into the home-curing craze with this recipe for homemade lonza, [...]
As I am heading off to Chicago for a fun-filled weekend tomorrow, what better time to share this recipe for Rock Shrimp DeJonghe? The pedigree seems uncontested: born in the kitchens of DeJonghe's Hotel and Restaurant, a Belle Époque-era Chicago mainstay owned by the Belgian immigrant DeJonghe brothers. Didn't you expect DeJonghe to have Asian roots? And who ever heard [...]
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