How to Prepare the Absolute Best Veal Marsala This is the final post for preparing the very best Veal Marsal recipe you will find from my friend Chef Ricco. You can find the short version of this recipe without all the explanations and without the mushrooms at The Very Best Veal Marsala Recipe. Here I’m […]
What Ingredients Do I Need to Make Restaurant Quality Veal Marsala? Years ago I asked my friend Chef Ricco Deluca how to make the very best veal Marsala and he shared with me his recipe. You can see this recipe at The Very Best Veal Marsala Recipe. What I want to do here is to […]
Alternative Cooking Method To Traditional Veal Saltimbocca Veal saltimbocca, which probably originated in Brescia, (a region of Lombardy in northern Italy), is a specialty in Roman cuisine. Quite simply, it is veal sautéed with prosciutto and sage in a butter/wine sauce. In the traditional fabrication method two sage leaves are placed on a veal cutlet […]
Braising Can Take the Chill Out of Winter By: Mark R. Vogel I am not a winter person. But I must admit, there’s nothing like a hearty winter meal followed by a good brandy or a hot cup of tea in front of the fireplace. Historically man consumed rich and robust fare in winter to […]
How to Make Incredible Veal Marsala I learned this recipe from my friend Chef Ricco Deluca who has forgotten more about cooking Italian food then I’ll ever know. He grew up in family of cooks including his mom who was Frank Sinatra’s family cook for more than 15 years. I wanted to know how to […]
Pan Roasting – A Cooking Technique Used By the Pros I recently read an article about Pan Roasting and how professional cooks use this technique all the time in restaurants. Just a handful of years ago, I couldn’t find any reference to pan roasting in any of my cook books, but these days it is […]
Easy preparation Preparing this Osso Buco recipe is easy with a few tips and suggestions. In fact, the night before we brought our youngest daughter home from the NBICU, some friends invited my wife and I over for a “last night out for a while” dinner and served one of my favorite meals, Osso buco, Ossobuco […]
Veal Scallopine with Artichokes, Button Mushrooms and Aged Balsamic Vinegar These recipes come from my friends at ChefsLine.com (no longer in existence) and specifically Chef Cary Wolfson, ChefsLine’s culinary content director and executive chef at a large university. As you can see, there are not a lot of ingredients for either of these recipes and […]
Classic Veal Marsala Dinner After purchasing some nice looking veal cutlets at the market, I thought about making classic Veal Marsala for dinner. With the right ingredients, this is one very quick and easy meal to prepare that’s usually a big success in our house even with the kids. Problem was I didn’t have one […]
Veal Scallopini with Artichokes and Balsamic Vinegar This is great recipe for a romantic Valentine’s dinner tonight. Easy to prepare, lots of texture, flavor and great ingredients. If you are not a veal eater, you can substitute boneless chicken breasts but be sure to get them thin enough. I saw a version of this recipe […]
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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 […]
