Rhubarb and Cod

Ribeye Steak with Caesar Butter

April 14, 2025 No Comments

Some flavor combinations work their way under your skin. They become almost a knee-jerk reference in your culinary vocabulary. I have a few of these tasty touchstones. Hilariously, two of them have the same name – Caesar. I love the cocktail, I love the salad. And both show up frequently in my work. Today, I’m borrowing from the salad. Well, the dressing, to be specific. Everything you would find in a quality, from-scratch caesar dressing, you will find in today’s Ribeye Steak with Caesar Butter. Well, minus the egg. But if you’re ambitious, you could shred a cured egg yolk into the mix. I would be most impressed if you did.

Grains & Legumes, Sides

Caramelized Onion Apricot Rice Pilaf

April 7, 2025 2 Comments

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Today’s Caramelized Onion Apricot Rice Pilaf was conceived as an alternative Easter side to the usual scalloped potatoes. I have since seen the error of my ways and realized that this pilaf shouldn’t be in place of anything. This is a “Yes, and!” situation. You can have your pilaf and your potatoes and eat them too. But I will say that if you plan on serving lamb as your Easter main, I think this pilaf will complement its flavours a little more. I often think of scalloped potatoes as ham’s most natural companion. But why pit two stellar sides against each other when you don’t have to?

Fish & Seafood, Grains & Legumes

Tonnato Broad Beans with Shaved Fennel

March 31, 2025 No Comments

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Life has been busy lately. Not looking for sympathy – I’m sure it’s been busy for you as well. The spring is just kind of like that. People are waking up, and it’s time to get down to business. And by “business,” I mean everything you neglected while in you were in your mid-winter stupor. Or maybe that’s just me. Lately, many of my meals have looked like these Tonnato Broad Beans with Shaved Fennel. Something I can make quickly, consume slowly over a week, and shovel into my mouth via toast while keeping one hand on my keyboard. I firmly believe we all need meals like these in our lives.

Pasta, Poultry

Chicken Marbella Orzo Skillet

March 24, 2025 No Comments

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Today’s Chicken Marbella Orzo Skillet features juicy chicken thighs marinated in red wine vinegar, olive oil, salt, and oregano. The chicken is cooked snuggled up with olives, prunes, and capers cooked on a bed of tender orzo. This recipe borrows heavily from the original Chicken Marbella from the book The Silver Palate. The Silver Palate is a 1980s cookbook that broke records by selling 250,000 copies in its first year. The book is by Sheila Lukens and Julee Rosso. At the time of Lukens’s death in 2009, The Silver Palate remained in the top 10 best-selling cookbooks of all time – selling more than 2.5 million copies.