How to Make Creamy Fennel Mashed Potatoes Mashed potatoes are one of the most perfect foods but we are always trying to make them, not better, but different. Fennel is one of the most under-valued and seldom used vegetables and deserves more attention. So combining classic mashed potatoes with sauteed and pureed fennel is especially […]
How to Make Classic Potatoes Anna With the holidays right around the corner, I thought you would enjoy this classic version of Potatoes Anna from me and my friend Chef David Nelson to serve with some of your holiday feasts. You may have noticed, I already have a recipe for Potatoes Anna from Chef Leslie […]
How I Made the Best Brussels Sprouts For My Dad’s Birthday My parents, especially my dad – The Reluctant Gourmet, have been cooking for me all my life. For my dad’s 65th birthday I wanted to treat him to something no money could buy, not only because I don’t have any at the moment, but […]
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 […]
Steamed Potatoes With Lemon Juice and Herbs Recipe One of the downsides of boiling potatoes is that quite a bit of their nutritional value goes down the drain along with the cooking water. You can bake the potatoes, but even using a microwave this can take a long time. Steaming is one fast way of […]
Mashed Potatoes Frequently Asked Questions Should I peel the potatoes before cooking? This is purely a personal preference. I peel my potatoes first, but I also know people who leave the peels on and then peel them after they are cooked. This sounds like more work than I want to do, but it is an […]
Now Let’s Consider A Few Options When Mashing Potatoes Choosing the Right Potato to Mash A potato is basically a package that contains starch, sugar and water along with some nutrients, especially in the skins. But, there are many different varieties of potato, and they differ in the proportions of each component. Most cookbooks tell […]
How to Make Basic Roast Potatoes In our house, my wife is Queen of the All Things Potato. She makes the best mashed potatoes, twice baked potatoes, baked potatoes and my kids can’t get enough of her roasted potatoes. Her method of preparing these roasted tubers is simple and described below. I already have a […]
Fresh Green Beans Just Right When I think of green beans, my memory takes me back to my childhood and the Green Giant. My mom served most of our vegetables from a can in the 60’s except summer time when we had a garden and the green beans from the Green Giant were one of […]
How to Roast Corn with Spicy Garlic Butter on the Grill It’s August here in Philadelphia which means great local corn from Pennsylvania and New Jersey is available so we are eating corn on the cob as much as possible. Most of time we husk, boil and serve with butter from our Butter Betty dispenser […]
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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 […]
