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How to Roll Out Pasta Dough

Once you have a pasta dough made, your next step is to roll it out into sheets, from which you can easily make long pastas, like spaghetti and linguini, or cut rounds for raviolis or other stuffed pastas.
Twice Baked Potato Recipe

Twice Baked Potatoes

I this recipe video, I show you another way to prepare one of the most perfect of foods…the potato. Twice baked potatoes give you all the benefits of baked potatoes and mashed potatoes in one convenient little package. You can be very creative with ingredients with this recipe, and while I’ve...
Fettucini With Pork Sugo Recipe

Fettucini Pasta with Pork Sugo

In this recipe video, I show you one of my favorite pasta dishes, fettucini with pork sugo. A sugo is a pasta sauce, that is generally meat based, and cooked for hours and hours. This one, using pork, combines some tomato, onion, celery, carrot, several herbs/spices, and cream to make a luscious...
Pork Sugo Pasta Sauce Recipe

Pork Sugo

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a pork sugo…and when I think of sugo, I think of the heavy, big, bold, Italian “Gravy’s” you hear referenced in mobster movies. This version of pork sugo, uses a pork shoulder that I slow roasted the day before, and then braise for hours to make the...

Five Rules for the Perfect Steak

I get a lot of questions about how to cook steaks and other red meat. And while there are certainly some challenges, with the right game plan, it’s not difficult to cook the perfect steak everytime . I’m going to leave “red meat” (in which I’d include roasts, short ribs, rack of lamb, venison, bear...

How to Pan Roast Steaks

I love a grilled steak. Getting the beautiful smoky char on the outside of the meat adds a great flavor and texture, but the grill is not your only steak option. Too many of my friends don’t think about cooking a steak “indoors”, but really there’s no reason they shouldn’t. In fact, pan roasting a...
Mushroom Risotto Recipe

Mushroom Risotto

In this recipe video, I make a mushroom risotto recipe that probably ranks among my wife’s top 3 favorites. We both love the creamy consistency of the risotto, set up by the al dente rice. And in this risotto, the earthy mushrooms bring a delicious, distinctive flavor – and also create a perfect...

How to Make Pasta Dough

I’m not going to lie to you and say that making your own pasta is the easiest thing in the world, but it’s also important that you know it’s not hardest. I generally only do it if I want to make pasta for a special occasion, or want to make my own stuffed pasta like ravioli or anglelotti. Neither...
Maple Glazed Pork Chop Recipe

Maple Glazed Pork Chop

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a maple glazed pork chop. Since I was a kid, pork chops have been a favorite of mine. As an adult, I’ve grown to appreciate the fact that pork chops themselves have a fairly mild flavor, which is very accepting of whatever other ingredients and sauces...
French Onion Soup Recipe

French Onion Soup

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a classic French onion soup – one of my all time favorites. While the flavors are fairly complex and developed, the soup only has a few ingredients and is pretty simple to make. There’s only a few ingredients and everything goes into one pot. The only...
Basic Tomato Sauce Recipe

Basic Tomato Sauce

In this recipe video, I show you how to make a basic tomato sauce; something every cook should know. And while I would never claim that mine is the one and only, I do think this version is very good. I use this sauce directly on pasta, but this is also one of the mother sauces that you can take...

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