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Teaching you to eat the best food of your life, by cooking at home.
Have you ever been cooking your way through a recipe and get to the “add bay leaf” instruction, proceed to root around your spice cabinet only to remember “oh yeah, I forgot I’m out of bay leaves”? I happened to be on X the other…
The following recipes will give 2 expressions of candied walnuts. One will yield a crushable walnut brittle that is highly addictive The second will give you perfectly candied whole walnuts that are not too sweet and make a great…
If you’re like me, and nostaligic… Hershey’s chocolate syrup was on hand as a kid. You pop up the cap and out flows a a liquid cascade that would put Wonka’s chocolate waterfall to shame. But that was always the problem If you’re…
In most respects I’m a purists on desserts. Ice cream is the ultimate frontier of taste, texture and temperature. Especially in high heat which is where my life is now 9 months out of the year. For this release I wanted to share…
There’s something about iceberg lettuce in the summer that just hits right. Hot temps outside… the cold, crisp crunch of the lettuce straight out of the fridge and the blank canvas of the lettuce offers limitless opportunities.…
I love a good peppercorn sauce. My mouth starts watering at the thought of steak au poivre. Outside of bearnaise and bordelaise… peppercorn sauce is right at the top of the list for perfect steak sauce accompaniments. Until…
Just as the famous Dickens novel begins with an opening line of extreme contrasts, I want to show you two classic steak sauces that are complete opposites . Well, one is not-so-classic… but I turn it into a riff on a classic.…
It has been a while and, in the midst of some big life changes, I’m still behind the stove cooking and now tasked with opening another restaurant which has been a consuming but fun challenge as opening day approaches. Given the…
Wishing you all Christmas Holiday Greetings! 🎄 2025 wraps up in ~2 weeks and I can honestly say that this year has flown by quicker than any year I can remember. My employment changed and I’ve taken over a more demanding…
Wishing everyone in the USA a Happy Belated July 4th Independence Day 🎇 I would think it’s impossible to talk of summer cooking without grilling or bbq coming up. These are also as American as Apple Pie and Baseball. There’s no…
Summer is in full swing and over here in Asia I have recently become very homesick for certain foods. The (2) at the top of the list are: Sandwiches Salad While I’m in heaven for all things noodles, dim sum, clay pot rice and…
Greetings to you all! Since moving to Hong Kong it’s become clear to me that my love for noodles, wontons, dumplings, dim sum and Chinese BBQ is insatiable 😂 But… if you ask me my favorite comfort food to emerge in the last 1+…