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Have you ever been served a bowl of soup with a drizzle of oil? Floating on the surface of the soup, it’s a fashionable garnish at better restaurants. But the oil does more than look pretty. It adds a rich dimension of flavor to the soup and creates a more complex aroma. It’s an easy…
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Fine restaurants know that exciting presentation of food is almost as important as the preparation of the dish. They don’t serve main courses with mounds of starch and vegetables circling the protein; they use potatoes, rice and veggies as the bed to hold the protein. In its simplest form, Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House…
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What’s the difference between a cupcake and a muffin? Cupcakes have a finer crumb (from using cake flour versus all-purpose flour), a bit more sugar and are iced, adding even more sugar. While muffins do have somewhat less sugar, don’t let the name lull you into a sense of “better for you”: They are cake…
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A creamy blue cheese dressing recipe with crumbled blue cheese mixed in.
New Year’s Resolution Kale Salad. The recipe is below. Photo courtesy Just Salad. You may be sautéeing or stir frying more kale these days, based on their terrific nutritional profile. But how about kale salad? Here are three recipes from Laura Pensiero, executive chef of Just Salad and a Certified Dietician. For salads, young,…
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