Posts by joanne
Join me on June 2nd and 3rd for WGBY’s Two-day Asparagus Festival!
I will be in Western Massachusetts on Sunday, June 2nd, and Monday, June 3rd, to help local PBS station WGBY celebrate the region’s asparagus harvest. Sunday’s festival, a free, day-long celebration of sustainability and local agriculture featuring asparagus takes place from 10 am to 7:30 pm on the grounds of…
Stuffed Zucchini Greek Style
Throughout the Mediterranean, vegetables stuffed with various fillings, including meat, often fill the role of entrée. But when I tried to sell my meathead American husband on this recipe at any early stage in its development—the lamb then thoroughly camouflaged by bread crumbs—he squinted at it and, without venturing to…
Frosting: Why soda in caramel frosting?
I recently got an e-mail from Dean asking why some recipes for cooked Caramel Frosting (the kind without confectioners’ sugar, also called Caramel Fudge Frosting) call for baking soda and some don’t and wondering, “What is the reason for using baking soda and what is the difference in the outcome…
Mom's Meatball Stroganoff
This was one of my favorite dishes as a kid. It is a less expensive version of the classic dish created and named for a Count Stroganoff in late-19th-century Russia. Very popular in America during the sixties and seventies, the original recipe for Beef Stroganoff called for thin slices of…
Subaru Best Locavore Recipe Contest
Subaru of America and I are proud to partner in the search for the best locavore recipe. The prize? I will come to your home and cook with you, and we’ll videotape it. If you would like to enter your original recipe based on local seasonal ingredients, go to Locavore…
Biscuits: How can you make your own biscuit mix?
Sharon e-mailed the Kitchen Shrink to find out how to make homemade biscuit mix. You will find a number of recipes on line for a homemade substitute for commercial biscuit mix but you can actually just use your favorite biscuit recipe, combine the flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in…
Cream Biscuits
This is a recipe I developed while working in the Gourmet magazine test kitchen. It is so easy and versatile that I use it as the basis for any biscuit-related recipe I make. See Apricot Scones (p 302) and Biscuit Sticky Buns (p 303) in Sara Moulton Cooks at Home,…
Pork Cutlets with Spanish Olives
This technique of pounding boneless pieces of meat or poultry to make them thin, coating them in seasoned flour, sautéing them quickly, and making a sauce with the drippings can be varied to create dozens of different quick and easy dishes. 1 pound pork scaloppine cut from the leg or…
On May 10th, I'll be in Tampa for the James Beard Foundation.
On Friday, May 10th, I will be the chef for a James Beard Foundation fund raising dinner in Tampa, Florida. As a part of Premier Celebrity Chef Private Home Dinners, the menu I have designed will be served at a private home in South Tampa. To learn more go to…
Sofrito Clams or Mussels with Prosciutto
Getting to know Jean Anderson in the early eighties was one of the most important breaks in my life. The fabulously knowledgeable cookbook author and food and travel writer began to mentor me about 10 minutes after we first met, quickly hiring me as her assistant on foreign assignments to…