Lobster Mac & Cheese
Pasta, Cheese, and Lobster (with some shrimp and crab thrown in for good measure): It doesn't get much better than this. With all due respect Parker, this is the ultimate Mac & Cheese. Even my wife, who is not a…
Creamy Chardonnay Shrimp Pasta
So I was having a lunch meeting in one of my favorite spots. They make a great ham and pineapple pizza but this time I wanted to try something different. I spied this on the menu: Chardonnay Shrimp Pasta Shrimp…
Cooking For One, Part I
My Sweet Lady Wife and her sister are off on their annual camping trip, leaving me here to fend for myself. In past years, she alwqys made sure I would not starve by preparing a bunch of meals ahead of…
Mark Bittman’s 10-Minute Meals
A couple of weeks ago, Mark Bittman published a great article in The New York Times: Summer Express: 101 Simple Meals Ready in 10 Minutes or Less With a little forethought at the supermarket, most of these look noy only…
Summer Southwestern Meal
OK, so what do you do when the outside temperature is 197 in the shade? Grill, of course! I made these kabobs with just large shrimp (16-20 count) and mild Italian sausage. Inspired by a recipe in Vegetarian Southwest by…
Rouxbe.com
Have you discovered Rouxbe? Rouxbe (pronounced roo-bee) offers online step-by-step video recipes. I've watched several of the videos and I gotta say they are good. In fact the whole site is realy well done. (Disclaimer: I had the identical idea…
Macaroni Grill’s Lemon Butter Sauce
OK, I confess, I have a weakness for Macaroni Grill's Chicken Scaloppini. I've tried to duplicate the flavor with no success. The stumbliing block has been the Lemon-Butter sauce. There are innumerable copycat recipes on the web; They are all…
Too Hot To Bake
Oh man, do I miss bread-making. With temperatures poking around 116F however, breadmaking is out of the question.
Gilroy Garlic
I found an interesting post on Slashfood about how imports of Chinese garlic are killing California garlic growers, even though the Chinese garlic has been called 'tasteless' by comparison. I guess I'm going to have to start looking for labels…
My Best Roast Chicken Ever
This was without a doubt my best roast chicken ever. I recently acquired a copy of 150 Things to Make with Roast Chicken and 50 Ways to Roast It by Tony Rosenfeld. It is chocked full of great ways to…