Originating from the Castle Restaurant, Olean, NY, this house salad dressing was particularly famous. The restaurant closed in the mid-1980's. The recipe was created by Chef Anthony Quirino Lentola in the 1950's.
This quick, easy and delicious Italian-style side dish is perfectly cooked. Broccoli is seasoned with olive oil and garlic, and finished with a touch of parmesan.
A fantastic healthy dip perfect for the holidays or anytime you might have company coming. Butternut squash is roasted with an Arabic Ras El Hanout spice mixture. Based on a recipe by Gordon Ramsay.
Shrimp stuffed ravioli with fresh basil cream sauce, made from scratch with hand-rolled pasta, a tomato-shrimp filling, and a Parmesan-cream finish. The Italian masterclass dinner that earns its evening.
Classic French Nantua sauce built from live crayfish, cognac, mirepoix, and cream. A double-reduced, deeply pink shellfish sauce for quenelles, fish, or seafood pasta.
Fresh strawberries topped with piped sweetened whipped cream. Three ingredients, ten minutes, zero cooking. The kind of elegant simplicity New Orleans does best.
Marco Pierre White's tartare sauce from the Mirabelle restaurant. This was served with grilled dover sole but work well with any white fish dish.
Crabmeat stuffed ravioli served with a sauce béchamel. Takes time to make but well worth the effort to impress our just tread yourself!
Warm mixed berry compote with fresh strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries in a butter-sugar syrup. Spoon over ice cream for an elegant, quick dessert.
Fresh cherries preserved in grappa with sugar, sun-steeped for a week then aged 3 months. A classic Italian after-dinner treat with boozy, fruit-soaked elegance. Only 3 ingredients.
Classic French almond meringue that pipes into elegant shapes and bakes crisp. Light, nutty pastry component perfect for layered cakes, decorations, or cookies.
If you've ever wanted to make or try beef wellington, then this simple recipe will help you achieve that cooking goal!
Herb and goat cheese stuffed crepes with a reduction sauce. Very sophisticated
A hearty soup just loaded with a huge variety of winter vegetables
Langoustine and scallops sautéed in butter, deglazed with vermouth and lemon, finished in a silky cream velouté with julienned vegetables. Masterchef-level seafood in just 30 minutes.
Classic French country pate with veal, pork, chicken livers, and duck breast marinated in white wine and baked in a terrine. A two-day charcuterie project worth the wait.
New Orleans-style oyster cream sauce with fresh oysters, oyster liquor, herbs, and a butter roux. Rich and briny, perfect over pasta, fish, or steaks.
A delicious way to make some stuffed mushrooms, the combination of prosciutto, wine and all the spices is so tasty, mixed with bread crumbs, stuffed into the mushroom caps. They are great appetizer.
Fish is poached in tomato and basil sauce reduction, light yet tasty.
Spinach mousse made with blanched fresh spinach, egg whites and a drizzle of heavy cream, finished with a pinch of nutmeg. Cold, silky, no-cook starter for a French or Creole table.