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Newly Added Recipes

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Pickle Brined Pork Chops

Pickle Brined Pork Chops
Pickle Brined Pork Chops makes excellent use of leftover bread & butter pickle juice and other seasonings to create a tasty brine marinade for bone-in pork chops.  While we favor sirloin cut chops, the recipe works fine with center cut pork chops too, just be sure to select pork chops of at least ½-inch thickness. …
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Savory Sweet Cauliflower Rice

Savory Sweet Cauliflower Rice
Savory Sweet Cauliflower Rice uses Calabrian chilis for a savory, spicy element and sun-dried tomatoes add sweet balance with a bit of umami to this great side dish. Using an orange cauliflower, as pictured, adds even more color to this already colorful, flavor-packed dish.  With only six ingredients, Savory Sweet Cauliflower Rice is easy to…
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Pumpkin and Rye Whiskey Pie

Pumpkin and Rye Whiskey Pie
Pumpkin and Rye Whiskey Pie adds rye whiskey’s spicy, fruity flavor notes to silky pumpkin pie, yielding a more adult but not boozy version of an old favorite.  American rye whisky, which must be made with at least 51% rye grain, is less sweet and with a lighter body than it’s more well-known cousin, bourbon,…
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Pork and Imitation Crab Stir Fry

Pork and Imitation Crab Stir Fry
Pork and Imitation Crab Stir Fry offers a great combination of land and sea proteins in a tasty and attractive stir fry. It is easy to prepare and relatively inexpensive. You can use pork stew meat or boneless pork loin chops for the pork.  Imitation crab, sometimes referred to as krab, is not actually crab…
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Brandied Beef Tri Tip

Brandied Beef Tri Tip
Brandied Beef Tri Tip roast is a great way to make this cut of beef shine. Tri Tip, as it’s popularly known, comes from the bottom tip of the sirloin.  It derives its name from its triangle shape and that it is at the very bottom tip of the sirloin. Tri tip is rich in…
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Green Peppercorn Brandy Cream Sauce

Green Peppercorn Brandy Cream Sauce
The key to Green Peppercorn Brandy Cream Sauce is using the juices of the protein as an integral part of the sauce. A variety of meats lend themselves to rich and flavorful Green Peppercorn Brandy Cream Sauce. If you want to “do it up”, use filet mignon and a French cognac; for a weeknight dinner,…
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Korean Flanken Short Ribs

Korean Flanken Short Ribs
Korean Flanken Short Ribs makes great use of less-familiar flanken short ribs in a gochujang-forward marinade/sauce. This recipe utilizes the flanken style of short rib, a thin cut about 1/2-inch thick, which cuts across the rib bones, so each slice contains a few pieces of bone. This is a popular cut for short ribs for…
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Cod with Turmeric and Garam Masala

Cod with Turmeric and Garam Masala
Cod with Turmeric and Garam Masala offers a fresh and flavorful take on pan-fried cod fillets.  Turmeric brings a bright, golden color and garam masala contributes warm, deep, aromatic essence to this easy to prepare recipe without adding any spicy or hot element.  With its short preparation and cooking time, Cod with Turmeric and Garam…
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Lenten Recipes

For those of us who are of the Catholic faith, Lent has arrived.  A time for reflection and dietary restrictions, our Lenten recipes offer meal options for observant Catholics and others seeking delicious dishes to prepare and share.

Ajvar Eggplant Red Pepper Spread

Ajvar Eggplant Red Pepper Spread
Ajvar Eggplant Red Pepper Spread (pronounced “eye-var), is a Balkan dish similar to Baba Ghanouj or Hummus.   Eggplant and red peppers are grilled, then puréed with other ingredients and then the purée is added to hot fragrantly seasoned olive oil for a final finishing touch. We prefer to prepare our Ajvar Eggplant Red Pepper Spread…
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Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce

Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce
Aromatic, sweet yet tangy Meyer lemons are key to our Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce; other lemon varieties will yield a too tart, harsh sauce. The cooking process calls for the preparation of two sauces which are reduced and then combined to form silky Meyer Lemon Pasta Sauce.  It’s wonderful with any cut pasta shape but…
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Cream Cheese Celery Sticks

Cream Cheese Celery Sticks
Cream Cheese Celery Sticks are a mid-century modern appetizer.  This classic would have originally not been seasoned, just the cream cheese and the celery, as Vito’s Mom prepared it countless times.  We’ve decided to update this classic appetizer by using a variety of seasonings to top it; “Fancy Shmancy”, as Vito’s Mom would say.  You…
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Swordfish with Lemon Caper Sauce

Swordfish with Lemon Caper Sauce
Swordfish with Lemon Caper Sauce reminds us of Sicily! Swordfish fresh from the sea, marinated and grilled, and dressed with a sauce of lemon and capers is dining perfection.  This recipe uses readily available ingredients and is easy to prepare, just don’t leave the swordfish on the grill too long.  Serve Swordfish with Lemon Caper…
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Grilled Bruschetta Two Ways


Grilled Bruschetta Two Ways updates the popular Italian appetizer with all the flavors of summer.  With one bite, you can taste the summer sun-ripened elements all brought together into a savory symphony. Here we expand on the usual bread base by toasting the bread on the grill and complimenting them with grilled eggplant slices too.…
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Family-style Rustic Escarole Salad

Family-Style Rustic Escarole Salad
Family-style Rustic Escarole Salad highlights the delicious texture and slightly bitter flavor of escarole in a very simply-prepared dressing with thin toasts adding an extra crunchy element.  This recipe is a family favorite of Vito’s; he learned to prepare it from his great-aunt Evelyn and it’s a great example of the simple, rustic fare of…
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Fettuccine Thai-fredo

Fettuccine Thai-fredo
Fettuccine Thai-fredo is a Thai-inspired take on classic Alfredo sauce.  Classic Thai ingredients combine in this fusion dish, which, like its Italian namesake, is very rich. The addition of Makrut lime leaves and fish sauce cut the strong flavor of the coconut milk just enough and reducing the sauce really brings all the flavors together. …
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Wilted Arugula Salad

Wilted Arugula Salad
We were introduced to Wilted Arugula Salad on our first trip to Buenos Aires. We initially thought this lovely salad had perhaps been prepared well ahead of serving, but we were advised that this is the way Porteños enjoy their Arugula salad. The lemon juice really enhances and permeates the arugula and the rich, salty…
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Warm, hearty and wonderful…

Days are getting longer but temperatures are still cold and the weather inclement.  It’s time for comfort food! Our cooking adventure has moved inside, filling your home with mouth-watering aromas and delicious meals. Check out our stews, chilis, curries, and gumbos recipes and make something warm, hearty and wonderful as the cold days continue.

Beef Stew with a French Accent

Beef Stew with a French Accent
Beef Stew with a French Accent is savory and hearty.  Jolie Laide ("Pretty Ugly" in French or "beautiful despite its looks") in appearance, its complex flavors belie its humble, everyday ingredients and its ease of preparation.  The onion and garlic provide a flavor base for the beef and the thyme and bay leaves add subtle herbal…
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Cape Malay Curry Mince

Cape Malay Curry Mince
Cape Malay Curry Mince is a great example of South Africa's remarkably diverse cuisine, as befits a country of its size and scope.  One of South Africa’s oldest population groups are known as the Cape Malay, originally comprised of peoples brought from various parts of the East Indies to the Cape Colony by the Dutch…
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Thai Meatballs in Red Curry

Thai Meatballs in Red Curry
Thai Meatballs in Red Curry combines moist seasoned pork and beef meatballs, full of Thai flavors, with a vegetable-filled red curry enriched with coconut cream.  Comforting and refreshing, this curry hits many of the right flavor notes of Thai cuisine.  Start with an appetizer of our Sicilian Orange Salad or our Wilted Arugula Salad, then…
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Creole Gumbo with Lentils

Creole Gumbo with Lentils
Creole Gumbo with Lentils is a lower carbohydrate version of this Louisiana classic.  Made without a roux, Creole Gumbo with Lentils is very flavorful and hearty; there is no need to serve it over or with additional rice. Incorporating the “Holy Trinity” ingredients of Louisiana’s Creole and Cajun cuisines, okra and the all-important seasonings, Creole…
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Cooking should be inspired and bring you joy.  Culinary inspiration can spring from many sources.  Childhood memories of family get-togethers and at-home meals, lovingly prepared. Travel, a particular favorite of mine, to places some familiar, some foreign and exotic.  Meals taken at great restaurants, neighborhood joints, stand-up only kiosks, boardwalk stands, drive-ins, and falling-down fishing shacks on beaches.  Holiday gatherings, small and large, with family, friends and strangers too.  We will share what inspires us and hope it will inspire you too.  Now it’s time to cook and eat at home!

So, let’s start with a few questions for you.  Are you already a home chef of modest ability who wants to expand and refresh their repertoire of recipes and kitchen techniques?  Are you a cooking novice for whom the kitchen represents uncharted territory, a terra incognita of untold dangers and as-yet imagined delights?  Are you a confident master of the kitchen who is looking for fresh ideas?  Are you perhaps a bit of all three?  You are in the right place! Now it’s time to cook and eat at home!