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Skillet Apple Cranberry Pie with Shortbread Crust
Note: the filling and the crust can be made several days ahead and kept covered and chilled in the fridge. Just assemble and bake the pie about 25 minutes before you want to eat it. The caramel sauce can also be prepared ahead and then reheated. Start to finish: 1…
Baked Penne Pasta with Prosciutto and Fontina
Start to finish: 1 hour 30 minutes (25 active) Servings: 6 10 ounces penne pasta ½ teaspoon kosher salt plus extra for salting the water Olive oil for oiling the mini casseroles 3 ounces thinly sliced prosciutto, torn into 1-inch pieces 3 ounces coarsely grated Italian Fontina cheese 1 ½…
Fried Plantains (Tostones)
1 to 2 large green plantains 5 tablespoons canola or other vegetable oil or enough to reach ¼ -inch up the side of a large skillet Kosher salt Peel the plantain and slice it on the diagonal ½ – 1-inch thick. Heat the oil in a large skillet over high…
Chinese Barbecued Pork
Adapted from Stir-Frying to the Sky’s Edge If you don’t want to make it yourself and you live near a Chinatown you’ll see it hanging in the windows of some Cantonese restaurants. The homemade is of course far superior to store bought which often has red food coloring. For the…
Souffle Omelet filled with Broccoli and Goat Cheese
Makes 2 servings Hands-on time: 15 minutes Total preparation time: 27 minutes Ingredients 1/2 pound cooked broccoli, coarsely chopped 3 ounces fresh goat cheese, crumbled Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon vegetable oil 5 large eggs, separated 2 tablespoons all purpose flour Directions Preheat oven to 375°…
Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Chorizo and Greens
This is a very substantial and satisfying soup, perfect for these last cold days of winter. Thickened by pureed cauliflower and potato, it is luxuriously creamy without any cream. The sausage, greens, and paprika give it heat, and the cauliflower florets give it crunch. Serve this soup with garlic bread…
Duck Tacos
I was plenty happy to meet rotisserie chicken, but now I have found rotisserie duck. Rotisserie duck, like rotisserie chicken, should be one of the home cook’s favorite cheating ingredients. It’s tasty and it’s good to go. If you don’t want to eat it heated, straight up, you can shred…
On Monday, March 14th I was on the @rachaelrayshow.
I demonstrated 3 unusual ways to use everyday sandwich bread; my favorite kind of cheating recipes. You can find them here. . . Spring Soup with Bread Dumplings, Lemony Pear Turnovers and Shortcut Mushroom Rolls.
Det Burgers
Makes 4 servings Hands-on time: 25 minutes Total preparation time: 25 minutes My first official cooking job was in the midseventies at a bar in Ann Arbor, Michigan (where I went to college), called the Del Rio. They featured live jazz on weekends. It was a democratic place; all decisions…
Olympics, Pro Bowl, Super Bowl: Here’s my Celebration Cookbook!
About this time each year, as Super Bowl Sunday is almost here, I get requests from viewers who need last minute help finding crowd friendly party recipes so I create a collection of some of my favorites. This February is an extra specially big event month with the Olympics starting…