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Broccoli Gratin Recipe

Broccoli Gratin

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a Broccoli Gratin. Now broccoli was a hard vegetable for me learn to love. Memories of the buffet line with old, over cooked, mushy piles of green...just made it completely unappetizing. But, broccoli shouldn't be that way. This recipe is one of...
Wild Mushroom Pizza Recipe

Wild Mushroom Pizza

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a homemade Wild Mushroom Pizza. For this version, I use a mix of shitake and chanterelle mushrooms, but you use whatever you like and have available. I use mushrooms all year long, but as the weather starts to get colder during Fall/Autumn, I tend to...
Chicken Lettuce Cups Recipe

Chicken Lettuce Cups

In this recipe video, I show you how to make chicken lettuce cups. This dish and one of my favorites to make for parties, as it's great either hot or room temperature. And it's one of the inter-active dishes, which you can allow people to make their own little cups. Of course, the...
Shrimp and Chorizo Recipe

Shrimp and Chorizo

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a simple Shrimp and Chorizo dish, that makes a perfect appetizer, but it certainly flexible enough to make a main course as well. The spicy chorizo pack a wallop and brings a ton of flavor to the otherwise mild tasting shrimp. It also provides a nice...
Potato Gratin with Blue Cheese and Spinach Recipe

Potato Gratin with Blue Cheese and Spinach

In this recipe video, I show you another spin on Potato Gratin - one of my all time favorite side dishes. In this version, I add some blue cheese, which provides a salty, tangy flavor, and some spinach, which brings a bit of herbiness and a nice texture component to the gratin. This dish makes a...
Mushroom Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce

Mushroom Ravioli with Brown Butter Sauce

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a mushroom ravioli in brown butter sauce. We all need a few dishes in our back pocket that are so simple to make, they can literally be made in about 10 minutes. Of course, they also need to be tasty, filling, and interesting. This one fits the bill...
Spaghetti with Shrimp

Spaghetti with Shrimp

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a very simple version of Spaghetti and Shrimp. I love dishes like this because they are so versatile, using simple techniques that can applied too all kinds of ingredients; they are fast; and they are super tasty. I'll show you how to cook the...
Orzo Risotto Recipe

Orzo Risotto

In this recipe video, I show you how to make an Orzo Risotto. Now as you probably know, traditional risotto dishes are made from arborio rice. It's a dish I love and respect. However, you can also think about risotto as a cooking technique, where you slowly cook a starchy ingredient, slowly...
Corn Chowder

Corn Chowder

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a corn chowder. Now when it comes right down to it, a chowder is just a soup. While you can probably find someone that disagrees with me, what makes the soup a chowder is the addition of cream and potatoes, served chunky style (rather than pureed)...
Stuffed Zucchini

Stuffed Zucchini

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a stuffed zucchini. I'm always looking for dishes like this, because with most vegetables, prepared very simply, I'm a bit "take it or leave it". However, being the chubby little man that I am, I recognize the need to work more onto...
Orzo with Summer Vegetables

Orzo with Summer Vegetables

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a very simple side dish, Orzo with Summer Vegetables. Orzo is a small pasta, shaped a lot like a grain of rice. It's really very common in soups and in pasta salads, but tossed together with some simple vegetables, it makes a wonderful side dish...
Eggplant Parmesan Recipe

Eggplant Parmesan

In this recipe video, I show you how to make one of my favorites - Eggplant Parmesan. As a kid, I hated eggplant in just about form that I found it...with one exception: Eggplant Parm. Now, chances are if you took a shoe and covered it in a rich tomato sauce, and mozzarella cheese, I would have...

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