Hash Brown & Egg Cups with Crimini & Bacon Jam With Jazz from Madeleine Peyroux playing softly as I sip my morning coffee, I stared at the several pounds of remaining potatoes from our recent garden harvest. Sunday mornings can … Continue reading
Tilapia on Potato Pancake with Wild Mushrooms & Pearl Sauce: My grandmother would sit me on the counter as a child and offer me a whole raw potato to try. She’d say – “Try it. Like an apple.” Then she … Continue reading
Butternut Spaghetti Tacos with Toasted Pumpkin Seeds: Yes, really – “Spaghetti Tacos.” Thinking like a seven-year-old can be quite liberating as an adult, especially when it comes to dinner choices. If a seven-year-old got to choose your dinner, they may … Continue reading
A challenge, in anything we do, is directly proportionate to the level of insane intensity one self-inflicts in order to achieve something great. Cooking a feast where nearly every ingredient is made from scratch is one of my favorite, and … Continue reading
Butternut Squash Ravioli with Caramelized Onions: I thought to myself – if I was a ravioli, what flavor ravioli would I be? This is a profoundly spiritual question in every regard, whose analogical flexibility can be applied in such a … Continue reading
Spaetzle & Schnitzel with Sauerrahm Sauce: Autumn is truly a special time of the year, especially here in New England. However, one of my fondest memories as a teenager was having lunch at the German restaurant where my sister worked. … Continue reading
Coq au Vin with Autumn Vegetables: An early morning hike past the apple orchards and our woodlands rich in color triggered a flurry of autumn inspired dinners, but one quickly rose to the top. I have never made Coq au … Continue reading
Grilled Sirloin Tips with Portobello Sauce and Rosemary Pomme Frites: It’s a warm Fall day and the temperature outside is 78 degrees. Fall in New England is one of our favorite times of year, with crisp mornings and bursts of … Continue reading
Crab & Shrimp Stuffed Sole with Beurre Blanc Sauce “Went soul searching – couldn’t find a damn thing”. That’s one of my more favorite quotes, and most apropos with what should have been a more exceptional dish. Humble self-reflection is … Continue reading
Butternut Risotto with Cornmeal-crusted Shrimp: You spin me right “rind” baby, like a cornmeal-crusted-shrimp. The evils of my cassette-tape-driven adolescence have truly caught up with me and I am left helpless simmering with an autumn risotto. Although I can’t get … Continue reading
