We were recently sent a review copy ofDave's Dinners: A Fresh Approach to Home-Cooked Mealsby Dave Lieberman of the Food Network. Honestly, I've never heard ...
Last week, I called my Mom asking for advice on what to cook for Chinese New Year. She rattled off dozens of dishes with commentary on what each dish means, ...
My friends Becca (Biloxi, Mississippi) and Carole ("Nawlins", Louisiana) are probably scratching their heads reading this ("What? You need to show people how...
A few weeks ago I spent a morning with Chef David Lamonica ofScott's Seafoodin Folsom, California, learning all about preparing seafood and sauces that work ...
Beurre Blanc is a French sauce ("white butter") based on a reduction of shallots and an acid such as vinegar, citrus juice, or wine, mixed in with cold butte...
From the recipe archive. I'm taking off for a week'svacation, so comments may take longer than usual to get approved. Will be posting vacation updates onTwit...
Here's a salmon dish made for summer. Fresh tomatoes, fresh chopped herbs, a few shallots, lemon juice, balsamic and olive oil make a perfect sauce to accomp...
Every year in mid September, my friend Jim organizes a group of his friends to gosalmon fishingoff the coast of Marin, north of San Francisco. For the second...
Raised Catholic, I grew up eating fish every Friday (not just during Lent as the custom goes these days). Often it was just a simpletuna macaroni salad, but ...
I’m a crazy-lucky gal, living in tropical Florida. With the abundance of fruits all year round, we don’t do much canning or preserving here. I’d much rather ...
After completing graduate school in the late 80s, I spent a year studying martial arts at Kyoto University in Japan. The school cafeteria served many things ...
One of the benefits of having your own cooking website is that your friends and relatives start sending you recipes to try. This recipe comes by way of my co...
Fish sticks don't have to come from a box; they're easy enough to make. A friend recently gave me agreat cookbook for kids (thanks,Nicky!) that had this fun-...
One of our hands-down favorite recipes is this one for shrimp cakes, my father's recipe. Dad doesn't even like shrimp, and usually refuses to eat it, but he ...
With the warm days of summer upon us, a great way to cool off is withceviche. Ceviche is typically made with red snapper that is "cooked" by the acidity of l...
The first time I attempted to cook fried rice on my own, I was 15 and my parents and little brother were in Europe on vacation. I stayed home to attend summe...
What better way to cool down in the heat of summer than with a delicious cold salad? Freshly cooked shrimp and creamy avocado are a perfect match, especially...
The big food thrill of winter in Northern California is that it isDungeness Crabseason. There is simply nothing better than fresh cracked crab, but you have ...
Throughout the coastal areas of Latin America, you'll findlocalvariationsof "Camarones al Ajillo", freshly caught shrimp, fried quickly in olive oil with gar...
Tilapia, a tasty farm-raised fish originally from Africa, has become more and more popular here in the states. I recently brought home a whole tilapia from o...
My father and I have beenreminiscing latelyabout my mom's tuna casserole, the one she used to make in the 60s, with cream of mushroom soup, broccoli, lots of...
Almost every other Friday growing up my mother would serve the family this tuna macaroni salad. With six kids she loved this standard; it was easy to make, f...
My parents started making tuna fish salad sandwiches this way years ago, and as far as I'm concerned theirs is the best and only way to make a tunafish sandw...
Do you like Italian meatballs? I've been fishing around for a while for a good meatball recipe and have found it in this one. The basic idea is to take a bas...
Sometimes the best food is really the simplest. We experiment frequently with different ways of preparingpork chops, but the way we have pork chops most regu...
Easy to make liver pate recipe, made with chicken livers and pork sausage, wrapped in bacon, well seasoned with herbs and spices. Also known as "pâté (pate) ...
Carnitas are the Mexican version ofpulled pork. Braised first in a spicy sauce, pork shoulder is slow cooked until so tender the meat just shreds easily with...
We pulled this recipe recently from the Wall St. Journal and finally made it the other night. It was absolutely melt-in-your-mouth delicious. I've never tast...
Leave it to my Germanic father to find yet another twist on pork and sauerkraut. Yes, we already have a perfectly goodrecipe for spare ribs and sauerkrautwhi...
My father is of German Austrian descent, so naturally we eat a lot of pork chops and sauerkraut. Recipes containing the same have almost a genetic pull over ...
We had a hankering for a pork roast recently and found this relatively easy stuffed pork shoulder recipe in an oldThe Good Cookcookbook on pork from Time Lif...
Yet another great New England recipe from the Boston Globe. We made this the other night and loved it. The maple syrup with the vinegar give it a bit of a sw...