This is a delicious recipe for a cold day! It has been my family's tradition to make it for a Christmas party each year. But it is really wonderful for any time of year when you want a gourmet French stew. It stores well in the refrigerator all week!
Recommended wines:
Ropiteau Pinot Noir Reserve (For Cooking)
Chateau…
This creamy green tomato gazpacho will have you eating all your veggies in under 10 minutes! You’ll need 2 cans of these delicious Muir Glen fire roasted green tomatoes, which are packed with flavor, organic, and grown here by sustainable farmers. Here is the full recipe for a healthy January and beyond!
Green Tomato Gazpacho
Serves…
What to do with a mess of Scaled quail and some rabbits? That was the question after our last winter quail hunt to New Mexico. A dinner party plan was being hatched. We’ll need some starters for the event was part of the discussion, so my wheels were turning and I remembered a dining epiphany…
This blog post is for my dad, who called me recently and suggested that I make venison barley soup. He had just had beef barley soup at a restaurant and decided it would be even better with venison. This soup is full of autumn flavors, root vegetables and bright parsley and will comfort you and…
I have been making all kinds of recipes with figs, from this lemony jam to this fontina fig pizza to these caramelized blistered figs with gorgonzola. Today I'm sharing my recipe for Fig and Quinoa Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette. Have you ever had quinoa? Quinoa originated from the Andean region of South America about six…
In this recipe for panzanella salad also lies a recipe for homemade croutons, which you can either make in advance and store for a future salad, or blitz in the food processor and turn into bread crumbs. I love this salad on a hot summer’s day with freshly picked tomatoes. It is a great way…
I recently took a cooking class at 137 Pillars in Chiang Mai, Thailand. The chef took us to the local markets and we wandered through the colorful stalls and tried various delights, things I hadn't seen or tasted before, flavor combinations that were completely new to me in my years working as a professional chef.…
Most people think that you need a lot of land around you to grow watermelon because their vines need to spread out. But watermelon varieties are available in dwarf sizes and don’t require the land you might think you would need to grow them. There are also an amazing range of things you can do…
Last night, I harvested the kale I'm growing in the planter box I tried out this year. Since I didn't have a lot of growing space this summer, I went with all sorts of containers, and I have to say it's been rather fun to harvest jalapeños and tomatoes and radishes and herbs and now…