How to Make a Delicious Lemon Caper Sauce Tonight This is such a quick and easy sauce to prepare and goes so well with fish or chicken. It is very similar to a piccata sauce that is served with veal or chicken. The capers are small but packed with flavor. They add a salty/briny taste […]
How To Prepare Chateaubriand Sauce Named for French romantic novelist and statesman Francois Rene Vicomte de Chateaubriand (1768 – 1848, the recipe was created by his chef Montmireil. Many think of chateaubriand, as a cut of meat but it is not. It is a recipe that most food historians cannot agree on. However, the center […]
Yum, Yum, Yum Every time my family sits down for dinner, a melody of “yums” comes from my dad. The “yums” are even more pronounced and frequent when a member of the family, including himself, cooked the meal. We sit at the dining room table knowing that the “yums” will fill any lags in the […]
How to Prepare a Classic Charcutière Sauce Charcutiere sauce is a variation of Sauce Robert with the addition of cornichons, a small tart pickle made from gherkin cucumbers. It is excellent on pork dishes. If you look at its literal French translation, is “sauce of the pork butcher”. So basically, what we have is one […]
How to Prepare a Unique Version of Sweet & Sour Sauce This is not your classic Asian sweet and sour sauce using soy sauce as a base. This version features demi glace as the base with sugar for sweetness and vinegar for the sour. It also calls for capers for a salty component. Capers are […]
How to Make Incredible Carrot Puree My wife loves to prepare recipes from the Wall Street Journal’s “Slow Cooking Fast”. Last week we enjoyed a must try salmon with quick-pickled vegetables and carrot puree. It was “as good as it gets”! What makes a meal as good as it gets? Easy, if I were served […]
This sauce is multi-dimensional. How to Prepare Root Vegetable Balsamic Sauce This is a great time of year to use up some of your root vegetables to make a sauce that works well with duck, pork or game birds. The root vegetables provide a deep and earthy flavor while the balsamic vinegar a touch of […]
A Look at Salad Greens & Why We Care by Nell Jones “A cold dish of various mixtures of raw or cooked vegetables served with a dressing”. When I hear “salad”, I think of a bed of lettuce with random other ingredients sprinkled on top. It seems like the “bed of lettuce” has become more […]
Paprika is ground red peppers. There are sweet and hot varieties. Hungarian paprika is considered the best but Spanish paprika is excellent as well. Best Served With: chicken recipes or over a bed of noodles How to Prepare Paprika Sauce PrintPaprika Sauce Recipe Ingredients2 cups chicken stock 3 shallots, minced 2 tablespoons butter 1/2 […]
A simple Spanish shrimp and rice dish is easy to make when in a hurry if you have the right ingredients. And you probably have most of them in your cupboard right now. How to Make Spanish Shrimp & Rice to Perfection Let me start out by saying Spanish rice is not from Spain and […]
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How to Grill Your Turkey on a Gas Grill
Something Different – Grilling Your Turkey I wanted to share with you a novel way we cooked our turkey one year while we were still living in Park City, Utah. We grilled it on the barbecue. Now I’m sure many of you are saying to yourselves, “RG, get real. We’ve been grilling our bird for […]
Turkey Buying and Cooking Tips With Thanksgiving right around the corner, I thought you might enjoy talking turkey including some tips on choosing a bird and how to cook it. You would think cooking a turkey is not that big a deal but looking at all the articles in the current November issues of cooking […]
Moist Thanksgiving Turkey Tips
How To Roast A Perfectly Moist Turkey A whole turkey, perfectly cooked, juicy in thigh and breast and richly caramelized all over is a thing of beauty, but it is, indeed a rare bird. Turkeys are large, they have a big hole inside them. They are thick in some places and thinner in others. They […]
