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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…
Salmon with Crispy Skin and Pepperoncini Lemon Sauce
NOTE: On the show I mentioned that I like East coast salmon because it has a higher fat content than the west coast variety, but I want to clarify that in general wild salmon from the Pacific west coast is a much more sustainable and healthier choice than east coast…
No-Knead Walnut Rosemary Bread
Generally speaking, in the culinary world there are bakers and there are cooks. It takes a chemist’s love of precision, not to say a certain steeliness, to be a baker. Me, I’m a cook. But I do love to bake bread. In fact, I’ve been on a bread-baking kick for…
My dear friend Grace Young reminds us why America’s Chinatowns matter.
Chinatowns are struggling to survive and my dear friend Grace Young is reminding Americans why they matter. I was fortunate to contribute to this piece. Author Kristen Hartke included a paywall free link for those who don’t already subscribe to the Washington Post. Find it at #LoveAAPI (but please do…
Need a gift idea for the foodie in your family?
Well, how about a subscription to the online series of short cooking videos called Cook with Jacques Pépin & Friends? Volume 3 is just out with 50 new recipes. The teachers in this series are all accomplished chefs and friends of Jacques Pepin. It is a gift guaranteed to improve any budding…