Variations on Cooking

Here is another Chicken recipe: I have been playing with roasted chickens, trying different variations on the standard Julie Child's...

Here is a great summer salad that you can make ahead and it gets better as all the flavors marinate. Ingredients 1 can of lentils of...

Here is another of my staples for the BBQ. Ingredients 2 3lb whole chickens cup up or 12 chicken legs or a combo of chicken parts you...

Here is another favorite BBQ recipe of mine, the sauce has a lot of ingredients but it is so worth it. It is not easy to find a rack of...

Ingredients The wrappers 1 cup unbleached flour 2 cup yellow cornmeal 2 sticks unsalted butter, chopped into small pieces 8 oz cream...

We had this fish a few years back and I asked the chef for the recipe. He sort of gave it to me but I had to figure out the rest. The...

Here is my version of carnitas, it is sort of a Mexican/ French version. Ingredients 4 lbs pork loin cut into two-inch cubes 1/2 lb of...

This is my version of the classic dish, it's a nod to New Orleans. Ingredients 32 oz of chicken stock, low salt 48 clams, steamed and...

A few years ago Michael asked me to make Rugelach for an event at work. There is a bakery in NYC that makes outstanding Rugelach, so I...

I received a request for this sandwich I served a few summers ago at the cabin. It is really simple. Ingredients 4 catfish fillets 1...

Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a...

Ginger (Zingiber officinale) is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or simply ginger, is widely used as a spice or a folk...

This recipe is in fact a variation on traditional Jambalaya, its a bit, well a bit - well it's just easier and takes less time than a...

The hardest part of the recipe was figuring out the spices for the boil, there are all these prepackaged spice mixes but they usually...

Last night I started with one idea and ended up with something different then I planned. I was going to make a stuffed catfish but I...

Here is the fish we had over the weekend. I served this with the Avocado Pico del Gallo, recipe to follow in the next newsletter, and the...

There are two variations of this dish; one more country French-inspired and the other Mexican Inspired both are great. Garlic Chicken -...

When I was first trying out making a pasta gravy as I was told by many of my first and second-generation Italian friends, "everyone...

This a repost from last year. I have been transferring and the post from my old blog into the recipe files on the website, but I...

Just like the compound butters Barbecue sauce is endless. I tend just to whip on up on the stop based on what I have on hand at the time....