Recipes
Roasted Vegetables with Pesto
Recipe for eggplant, mushrooms, tomatoes and other vegetables roasted with home made pesto.
How to Make Pesto (plus a bit of a rant)
Recipe for how to make classic pesto Genovese.
Slow Cooked Chicken with Cannellini Beans, Fennel and Tomato
Recipe for Slow Cooked Chicken with Cannellini Beans, Fennel and Tomato plus a primer on how to choose a slow cooker/crock pot.
Early Spring Salad with Fennel, Watercress, Pomegranate, and Hazelnut Vinaigrette
Salad with fennel, watercress, pomegranate, and hazelnut Vinaigrette plus a short history of fennel.
Oysters part 4- How to Make Oysters Rockefeller
How to make Oysters Rockefeller
Oysters Part 3- Sauces and Garnishes
How to make Oyster Sauces and Garnishes; homemade cocktail sauce, mignonette, and freshly grated horseradish
Oysters Part 2- How to Buy, Clean, and Open Raw Oysters
How to open oysters at home, with tips on buying, cleaning, and storing raw oysters.
Oysters Part 1- Introduction; The Seduction From the Sea
“As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid…
