Kitchen Gadgets, Main Dishes, Sauces
I've always regarded fondue as the most glamorous dish in the whole wide world. Growing up beef fondue was the star of my birthday dinners, the one night a year mom would fire up our two big fondue pots. Rounding out these annual evenings of elegance was the grand finale of strawberry shortcake. In January. Which meant frozen strawberries out of an oval paper and metal [...]
Celebrity Recipes, Main Dishes
Celebrity recipes are always a mixed bag and in my experience that bag usually holds a lot of bland disappointments and ill-advised oddities. Frank DeCaro's The Dead Celebrity Cookbook does much better than most to disprove this opinion. His clever book is an amusing compendium of fond remembrances and celebrity recipes by A- , B- and C-list [...]
Fish and Seafood, Kitchen Gadgets, Main Dishes
Somewhere along the line everyone agreed on some sweeping generalizations about recipe monikers. If it's "Florentine" expect spinach in there somewhere; "à la Grecque" gets you olive oil, lemon, oregano and probably olives. "Hawaiian" and "Polynesian" are the big yellow warning signs for pineapple. Why bland spinach is the standard bearer for a region that could easily claim rosemary or basil [...]
Appetizers, Breads, Main Dishes
I am very happy to report that SpecD's recipe for the original, authentic Majestic Kugelhopf Surprise stands the test of time. And now you can get a behind the scenes look in this video of How to Make Kugelhopf Surprise. One of the first recipes posted on Spectacularly Delicious in 2009, Kugelhopf Surprise has been a reliable [...]
ALL RECIPES, Kitchen Gadgets, Main Dishes, Simply Spectacularly Delicious (SSD)
A nicely turned out Osso Buco is about as Simply Spectacularly Delicious (SSD) a recipe as one can have in one's repertoire. By virtue of there being only two sides of the cut of veal that need browning, it's arguable that this is the easiest braised-meat dish around. When you consider the searing and turning and multiple batches required [...]
Famous Chefs, Kitchen Gadgets, Main Dishes
We have the estimable Mapie, Countess de Toulouse-Lautrec, to thank for this inspired tagine-style lamb stew. And thanks go out again to our pals Liz and Al for this gorgeous tagine which they brought back from their honeymoon in Morocco many moons ago. The Countess, born Adélaïde Lévêque de Vilmorin in 1902, was the wife of Comte Guillaume de Toulouse-Lautrec Monfa. The [...]
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