We wanted to create a pasta dish that brought out the delicate, earthy flavor hiding in supermarket mushrooms. We selected cremini mushrooms, which have a meatier texture and a more intense, woodsy flavor than button mushrooms but are still readily available.Butternut squash heightened the ...
Perhaps an arbitrary number of cloves, the 40 in this French dish are iconic; while the chicken braises, the generous cloves become appealingly soft and spreadable. But their flavor is often spiritless.Another offense: The chicken is tender, but the breast meat dries out and tastes wan. We ...
My favorite grain, barley, has made it to the mainstream.When visiting a high end restaurant in Pittsburgh, we had it鈥s an appetizer! I had inserted barley into specials in my restaurant, but never was bold enough to put it on the menu. And here it was.OK, so it is not quite yet mainstream, ...
The luck of the Irish was with me earlier this week when I received a phone call from Sandi Kern, an integrative nutrition health coach in Washington.With St. Patrick蘑菇视频 Day just around the corner, Sandi 鈥� at the urging of a friend 鈥� wanted to share a gluten-free, dairy-free version of ...
The Lenten season is upon us, which can pose mealtime challenges for those of us who observe meatless Fridays.I'm not sure why, but I find myself agonizing over those Friday dinner menus. My family doesn't consume meat every day during the rest of the year. And my youngest daughter is a ...
