June 11, 2009.   Categories Contributing Chefs, Fabulous Side Dishes, Pasta.

Tagliatelle With Carmelized Onions, Applewood Smoked Bacon and Cremini Mushrooms Ingredients: Sea salt Extra virgin olive oil 1/4 pound good quality applesmoked bacon, cut into thin slices 2 small sweet onions, peeled and halved or quartered (depending upon size) 1 pound cremini mushrooms, sliced 4 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed Needles from 2 small fresh rosemary sprigs Cracked black pepper 1 pound tagliatelle pasta (or any wide ribbon...

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June 11, 2009.   Categories Smoking / Grilling.

Marinated and Grilled Leg of Lamb Tagliatelle With Carmelized Onions, Applewood Smoked Bacon and Cremini Mushrooms Mache Greens with Garlic Lemon Vinegarette, Goat Cheese and Roasted Heirloom Cherry Tomatoes I was reading Tyler Florence’s book “Tyler’s Ultimate” and decided to modify and combine some of his recipes in order to create a special menu to accompany leg of lamb.  This is what I came up with… to...

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June 11, 2009.   Categories Chef David Lawrence, Contributing Chefs, Desserts, Ice Cream, Mother's Day.

Homemade Rose Petal Pistachio Ice Cream Chef David Lawrence is a Facebook friend and lately he’s killing me with his recipe posts!  His new blog… www.forkingdelicious.blogspot.com is a combination of stunning food photos, humorous writing and interesting culinary creations.  He has been gracious to allow me to re-post many of his recipes.  So many are wonderfully inventive and decadent that I find myself asking him...

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June 7, 2009.   Categories Pasta, Restaurant Recipes, Seafood.

Duarte’s Crab Cioppino www.duartestavern.com source:  NPR.org 2 1/2 pounds fresh cracked Dungeness crab (your fishmonger/butcher will crack the crab for you) 12 cherrystone clams 12 jumbo white prawns 8 oz. cod 1 cup clam juice 1/2 cup dry white wine Cioppino sauce (recipe follows) To assemble: Place half the sauce in a 5 quart roaster or Dutch oven. Place crab in next, then clams and prawns, clam juice, and wine. Pour rest of...

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June 6, 2009.   Categories Contributing Chefs, Poultry.

photo by David Lawrence Ultimate Fried Chicken by Tyler Florence My friend Chef David Lawrence beat me to the punch on posting this one.  This fried chicken recipe looks absolutely delectable.  I must admit that I’ve never been very good at frying chicken and my kitchen usually needs a power wash to get rid of the oil.  David suggested I try this recipe developed by Tyler Florence.  This immediately drew me in and I...

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