Month: October 2024

baking, Sourdough

Sourdough bagels

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Sourdough bread has always been a favorite of mine and several years ago I successfully got a starter going. This was not my first attempt but rather my first successful one – it took a couple of weeks for it to really spring to life. Once the starter is actually […]

seafood, Soups

Bermuda fish chowder

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Years ago when I visited the beautiful Island of Bermuda with the pink sands and turquoise water, I discovered that they have an amazing food culture. The hotels and restaurants all have really top notch food and service to match. With that in mind I was quite surprised at being […]

Soups, Vegetables

Bramborova or Czech vegetable mushroom soup

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I grew up with my grandmother making this soup after my grandfather and I went mushroom picking. We were in the woods and my grandfather would call out “houbiky, houbiky” which meant mushrooms, mushrooms while the 4 year old me ran around frantically looking for them and at the same […]

Basic steps, Italian, sauce, Vegetables

Pesto

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The lovely green sauce with tastes and fragrance of the summer is what I think of pesto. Most often used as a flavoring for pasta or with fresh mozzarella and garden tomatoes you can utilize this sauce for many other things. Mixed with mayonnaise it becomes a great dip or […]

Basic steps, seafood, Shrimp, stock

Shrimp stock

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When making Pho, hot and sour shrimp soup, risotto or a number of shrimp and seafood dishes, it’s great to have some good shrimp stock on hand. Save your shrimp shells every time you peel and make shrimp, it’s easy to keep a ziploc bag in the freezer and just […]

Basic steps, stock, Vegetables

Dark roasted vegetable stock

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Bringing out rich flavor in a vegetable dish can be a challenge. Vegetables are often cooked with bacon or pancetta, soups are made with chicken stock, split pea soup or beans are cooked with a ham bone. How can we go to flavortown without using meat? One good way is […]

Basic steps, stock, Vegetables

Vegetable stock

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With more people eating plant based diets these days, the challenge in the cooking world and especially for restaurants is how to create great vegetable dishes without sacrificing the flavor. Stocks and broths is the answer. The base for most stocks is mirepoix ,which is covered in the recipe index […]

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Hot sauce

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At the end of the growing season, usually sometime in October around here, all the peppers ripen up at once. We use some hot peppers in our cooking but can not possibly use the dozens and dozens of peppers that ripen at the end of the season. Hot sauce is […]

American, seafood, Soups

New England clam chowder

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Rich, creamy and delicious are words that come to mind when describing New England clam chowder which is sometimes called Boston clam chowder. There are 3 main types of clam chowder served in northeastern US, there is Manhattan style which is tomato based, Rhode Island style which is clear and […]