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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.

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.

Ropa Vieja

Ropa Vieja is the national dish of Cuba. Beef is browned and then braised in seasoned, tomato-inflected broth and wine until it falls apart. Likely of Spanish origin and brought to the Americas, Ropa Vieja means “old clothes” in Spanish. Legend has it that a penniless old man of good faith had nothing to feed…
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Mini Beef Rolls Rouladen

Mini Beef Rolls Rouladen are a riff on a well-know German dish Rouladen or Rinderrouladen, “Rolls” or “Beef Rolls”, adapted by memory from a recipe as prepared by Vito’s aunt. While Aunt Tess was Italian-American, she was a very good cook with a fine appreciation of many cuisines, particularly German. We’ve lightened the traditional recipe…
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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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Japanese-Style Pork Curry

This recipe for mild but full-flavored Japanese-Style Pork Curry is recreated from “taste memory”, having consumed it often at “Masa-Ya”, a Japanese restaurant in West Los Angeles, which was owned by a lovely and talented lady named Grace. Sadly, while “Masa-Ya” is no longer with us today, this wonderful dish is. Serve Japanese-Style Pork Curry…
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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!