Archive for December, 2011
Creamy Crab Poppers These pretty appetizers flecked with green & red and full of sweet crabmeat are a holiday favorite. Very good crabmeat is now available all year round. The markets here in Vegas sell it in eight ounce cups. It’s cooked, pasteurized and ready to use right out of the container. We love it [ READ MORE ]
Traditional Italian menus for Christmas Eve often feature seven types of seafood served as separate courses. Living a way from reliably fresh seafood and cooking on small scale can make this old-style seven-course affair a little impractical. This fragrant seafood dish is a practical solution. It’s a close first cousin to the San Francisco seafood [ READ MORE ]
Kentucky doesn’t have a monopoly on fried chicken. Meet Japan’s version, Kara-Age. Pieces of boneless chicken are seasoned in a ginger and soy flavored marinade before being breaded in a thin potato starch coating. The result is something that comes very close to fried chicken teriyaki. The thin coating of seasoned potato starch becomes thin [ READ MORE ]
Brussels sprouts have been given a bad reputation by well-meaning cooks hell-bent on overcooking them. When overcooked, Brussels sprouts become mushy, bitter and not very pleasant. When quickly cooked and seasoned with bacon and almonds, they are transformed into a veggie side dish even kids will eat. Choose firm, bright green sprouts with no blemishes. [ READ MORE ]
If you love spicy Buffalo chicken wings but are looking for a more substantial version, you’ll love this zesty whole roast chicken infused with Buffalo wing zing. Any brand of one of the bottled Buffalo wing marinades work perfectly for this, but we particularly like the Lawry’s brand. The overnight marinating is quick brine that [ READ MORE ]
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