Posts by joanne
Indonesian-Style Chicken with Spicy Peanut Sauce
Chicken thighs should be more popular. The meat is much more flavorful than the white meat and almost always cooks up moist, which is not something you can say of chicken breast meat. Yes, the thigh is slightly more caloric than the breast, but I prefer it anyway. This is…
Answers to Your Holiday Egg Questions
Each year at this time I get questions about preparing, storing, and using hard-cooked eggs. I just wanted to remind you that you can find the answers to your questions in the Kitchen Shrink archive 24/7 all year long. Here are direct links to the answers to your Holiday Egg…
Rosemary-Scallion-Crusted Rack of Lamb
Rack of lamb is my favorite cut of lamb. It’s always delicious – the bones add so much flavor – and the basic preparation requires little more than popping it in the oven and keeping an eye on it until it’s done. It’s really almost impossible to mess up. But it…
Join me for a French River Cruise, May 24 to 31, 2014.
Plan ahead for your spring vacation in the French countryside. From May 24th to 31st, I will be teaching cooking classes on an A-ROSA Rhône/Saône river cruise. We will discover delicious French ingredients and recipes that use them as we cruise from Lyons to Arles and back with stops at Lyon, Mâcon,…
Baked Striped Bass with Sherry Vinaigrette, Olives, and Capers
Back in the early eighties a pioneering new fish restaurant called Le Bernardin opened up in New York as the American outpost of a French original. Under the direction of Chef Gilbert Le Coze, Le Bernardin’s revolutionary stroke was to reduce significantly the butter and cream required in classical French…
Here is the link to all my tips from the the Rachael Ray Show.
I appeared on The Rachael Ray Show to share my tips for bringing almost dead ingredients back to life – limp lettuce, stale baguettes, rock hard brown sugar. I have a fix for all those dilemmas and more. Here’s a link to the video on Rachael’s web site.
Roasted Asparagus Bruschetta
With asparagus in high season, this is a delicious way to start a special meal. My favorite way to cook asparagus is to roast it at high heat which caramelizes and concentrates its flavor. After it’s been roasted, asparagus dresses up very easily. In this recipe from Sara Moulton Cooks at…
White Bean, Artichoke, and Tomato Gratin
Any recipe devoted to artichoke hearts involves the terribly boring and even slightly dangerous job of bending back and pulling off those prickly leaves. After wrestling with some artichokes during the first test of this recipe, Andrea Hagan, the backup recipe tester on this book, said, “Why don’t we just…
Here are the recipes from my appearance on the Today Show.
Hope you caught my March 24th appearance on the Today Show where I made Cuban Style Braised Pork Shoulder in a slow cooker and then turned the cooked meat into 4 more main dishes from four different parts of the world to serve later on in the week — a…
Strawberry Rhubarb Cobbler with Gingered Biscuit Topping
Strawberries and rhubarb are a delicious way to welcome spring. Technically a vegetable, rhubarb is so darn tart that it’s usually paired with a sweeter buddy, like the strawberry, in an effort to temper its tang. Try to find field-grown rhubarb. Darker in color, it has a much shorter season…