The growing trend towards smaller portions in our house has lead us to take the top off of our turkey burgers and make them with a skimpier bottom. But we don’t quite leave them naked and exposed, we layer them with carmalized Vidalia onions and melted goat cheese and set them on a toasted slice of whole grain oatmeal bread instead of a bun. This is one of those recipes that tastes like it takes a lot of work to make but actually doesn’t.
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May.14.2007. • 12:13 PM 0
try it topless
May.10.2007. • 2:07 PM 0
grilled portabello quesadillas
One of the most simple, quick and delicious grill recipes I have ever come up with is this Portabello quesadilla served with grilled asparagus. The prep work for this recipe is simple, all of the cooking is done on the grill, the whole thing takes less than 15 minutes to pull together and it is healthy. We end up eating this a lot in the summer as a light lunch or dinner (with grilled corn on the cob) so I thought it was worth sharing. If you try it let me know what you think …
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April.9.2007. • 1:52 PM 0
plates. portions. presentation.
Beyond the pure joy of watching two chefs battle to create haute cuisine within the 60 minute time limit, and despite the at-times-extravagant ingredients, ICA (Iron Chef America) serves as an culinary inspiration for me. I love watching the cooking techniques that are used and each week I take away some new ideas in this regard. But for me, I am most interested and inspired by the way that each chef pairs flavors and textures and the way they finish their dishes (plating + saucing). These are the things that I feel like are often overlooked when it comes to home cooking— these are the things that take a meal from expected to exceptional. I love to eat as well as cook so I guess its not surprising that I have become increasingly interested in creating more that a mere meal. Favoring the fabrication of phenomenal eating experiences at home. It doesn’t even mean that the meals take more time to create, just more thought, care and attention to the three Ps: plates. presentation. portions.
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April.3.2007. • 3:11 PM 0
homemade BBQ chicken pizza
I am a huge fan of non-new-york, flat-bread style pizzas and have been dreaming about creating a version of a BBQ chicken pizza for a while now. I kept putting it off because I like to make everything from scratch and that makes this meal a very time consuming endeavor. I regularly make home-made chicken nachos and figured I could borrow the chicken and sauce from that recipe— I just needed to come up with a dough recipe and a way to marry all of the flavors. Last night I finally gave it a try and it came out amazing!
Now that I have figured it out, here is the recipe…
