Recipes

My obstinate nature made me take another stab at the pot baking method  today. I was inspired by my friend Vincent, who told me about an oven used in England that didn't need steam injected during the bake because the humidity from the loaves themselves created the...

Most Sundays if I am lucky I get to watch my foodie shows on PBS. My favorite being that of the roving food reporter Mike Colameco, who to this date hasn’t stopped in for a chat on this blog, but he promises as soon as he isn’t so tied up with his show. This last...

Whenever my wife and I head into a store, the sudden urge to make something down home and familiar grabs us, just like it did yesterday when we were checking out the ethnic food aisle in my mothers neighborhood Stop & Shop.We of course were going past the...

Sometimes I wake up and crave something that reminds me of a moment or even a movie? Like deja vu. It happened to me today before I set off to work, deciding what to have for breakfast. Just a  few weeks ago I had recorded Jamon, Jamon, Luna Biga's movie about some...

When I go to my favorite Vietmamese restaurant in China town, Nha Trang, I usually order a couple of dynamite rolls,(due to the garlic chive sticking out at the end of the roll!), it's a name my brother coined and it's stuck. They are Goi cuon or Imperial rolls which...

I was thinking of using a recipe for chocolate tart from when I worked with my Chef Jean-Michel Bergounoux at Restaurant Raphael for a party coming up. His version was a hazelnut sable with a piped in sort of chocolate hazelnut appareil that is baked until just cooked...