Lemony Caesar salad with homemade anchovy spread on walnut toast, a from-scratch lemon-garlic dressing, and shaved Parmesan. Three components, one composed plate.
Justin's Barbecue Sauce: a Cajun-style finishing sauce with red wine, ketchup, hot sauce, garlic, and aromatic vegetables. Two-hour simmer for depth, served over barbecue not basted.
Try this succulent dish made with granny smith apples and a bit of honey. Bound to be a crowd-pleaser!
Asian vegetable salad with pineapple, snow peas, carrots, red bell peppers, and watercress in a pineapple-ginger-soy sesame dressing. A light, colorful make-ahead side for barbecues and potlucks.
Red potato salad with bacon dresses skin-on baby reds in a vinegar-spiked mayo with crisp bacon, yellow onion, scallions, and hard-boiled eggs. The picnic side dish that disappears first.
The chicken breast was so succulent, and the stuffing was loaded with great flavour. Salsa and pumpkin seeds were wonderful additions to serve.
Sichuan chicken stir-fry ready in 10 minutes flat. Cornstarch-dusted chicken cubes wok-seared with garlic, soy, vinegar, scallions, and cayenne for a fast weeknight dinner with serious heat.
Sauteed catfish dredged in thyme-flour, pan-fried golden, then plated under a sweet-tangy ginger peach sauce and toasted pecans. The Southern fish-fry tradition meets summer fruit in one elegant skillet dinner.
Making your own mustard is easy and a perfect compliment to home-made deli recipes. You can control how smooth and how rustic and chunky your mustard is. This makes about 3/4 cup of mustard.
Japanese pickled cauliflower, a quick refrigerator pickle with green pepper and celery in a sweet-tart brine with a surprising splash of cola for caramel depth.
Fresh pineapple slaw with shredded carrot, julienned green pepper, honey-pineapple vinaigrette, and crumbled blue cheese. A no-mayo tropical slaw that's bright and crunchy.
Cajun-seasoned chicken breasts pan-glazed with melted hot pepper jelly, fresh ginger, red onion, and white wine vinegar. A sweet-spicy-tangy one-skillet chicken dinner from a Delmarva cooking contest finalist.
Rustic herb and barley stew with rabbit, leeks, garlic, and sage simmered until fall-off-the-bone tender. Pearl barley thickens the broth into a hearty, one-pot meal.
Filet mignon strips marinated in soy, sherry, garlic and ginger, then woven onto bamboo skewers for hot oil fondue. Served with a crunchy beansprout and Chinese leaf salad on the side.
It's wonderful served with grilled meats, a pork chop, for example. It's also very nice mixed with some yogurt to toss with hot pasta for a low-fat quick dinner. And stir some into some soup; it will perk up almost anything without being overwhelming.
Ash reshteh, the classic Persian noodle soup thick with kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils, spinach, fresh herbs, and beets, finished with a tangy whey or vinegar swirl. Pure comfort.