COOKING VIDEO: How To Cook A Steak On The Stove

  If your steaks don’t taste as good as restaurant steaks, it could be the quality of the meat. Or it could be your cooking technique. Restaurant chefs start with searing the seasoned steak in a cast-iron skillet or grill pan. Sometimes they finish cooking the meat in the oven. In this demonstration, the seared…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Burger Bar, Diversity Burgers

A turkey burger Caribbean-style, topped with a grilled pineapple slice. Photo courtesy Kikkoman.   America is burger crazy: Burgers are our most popular food. And those burgers are usually beef. But there are other burgers, equally delicious: bison, grain (usually sprouted), lamb, legume (black beans, lentils), turkey and veggie burgers. The next time you cook…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Rethink The Dinner Salad

Looking for dinner salad ideas? Look no further than this alluring interpretation we had at Orsay, a restaurant in Manhattan that specializes in classic brasserie fare (with some modern dishes like this French-style “dinner salad”). You can also serve it as a luncheon salad, or as a first course to a larger meal. The concept…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Cooking A Ham

Don’t overheat your ham! Photo courtesy Snake River Farms.   Cured hams come fully cooked, but need to be heated (that is, if you want your meat to be warm or hot). Micheale Muse, culinary expert for Snake River Farms, producers of “the world’s best” Kurobuta hams, shares this advice: USE MODERATE HEAT. To ensure…
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FOOD HOLIDAY: National Cordon Bleu Day & Cordon Bleu Chicken Recipe

April 4th is National Cordon Bleu Day, celebrating the famous Paris cooking school and the great chefs and recipes it produced. Among other luminaries, Julia Child trained there. We’re celebrating with a delicious Chicken Cordon Bleu recipe. When more people cooked French cuisine at home (inspired by the great Julia Child), the dish was “made…
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