Variations on Cooking

A quick cassoulet, I mean a simplified version of a traditional cassoulet. Instead of soaking and stewing the beans from scratch, confit...

It's been several weeks since I last posted a recipe: the holidays, coming down with Covid sort of got in the way. I was double...

I have been working on my next book all about soups and stews and of course, it's summer now so I have been revisiting the cold soup....

Ingredients 2 pounds veal, cut into pieces 3 cups Bone Broth, Beef, unsalted if possible 1 cup dry Vermouth 2 pints of assorted mushrooms...

Ingredients 1 ounce (about 1 cup) dried mushrooms, preferably porcinis 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil 2 shallots finely chopped 2...

Ingredients 1 lb. shrimp, cleaned and deveined 6 cups of homemade seafood stock 1-pint mushrooms of choice, sliced 6 oz. of angel hair...

Ingredients 5 cups of diced, peeled beets 1 cup of red diced radishes 1 small red onion, chopped 1 red bell pepper, chopped ½ English...

With Summer just around the corner it time to start thinking about warm-weather dishes. This recipe came to mind when I was in the...

In the same stack of recipes was this for baked beans, I created this recipe for a contest, like most of the contests I entered I came in...

Now I do have several versions of clam chowder on this blog, it is one of my favorite dishes and a few weeks ago I made it again only...

Here is a recipe from 2009, as a kid I really liked Tuna Noodle casserole, know, but it was gooey and was like a warm hug. In my notes, I...

With all the time on my hands these days, I have been going through my endless yellow pads of recipes I have created over the last 10...

This recipe was on the pad that I found at the back of the cupboard during spring cleaning, it is actually from the year before we went...

I started working on this recipe last fall and with everything going on it I forgot all about it until today. I was cleaning up the...

A few weeks back I came across this recipe in my Grandmother cookbook, it was just a list of ingredients with a few cooking notes, and it...

Here is a break from the Shrimp recipe post, I came across this recipe I created many years ago. I just came across it in an old yellow...

Ingredients 2 pints of assorted mushrooms, chopped 2 cans of red beans, drained 2 cups of diced potatoes of choice 2 cups of diced...

Ingredients 4 16oz cans of kidney beans, drained 2 28 oz. cans of diced tomatoes or 8 to 12 fresh tomatoes diced 2 to 3 eggplants chopped...

Okay, this dish takes two days to make, the different parts of the dish need to sit overnight to build the flavors. - Enjoy Ingredients...

Now, this is a veggie version but you can add the lamb or beef, about 3 cups of chopped meat of choice at the parsnip stage. Now I use to...