This is good on many things including beets, sugar snap peas and radishes…. fried chicken, roast chicken, avocado toast… 1 ½ Tbs minced shallots 1 ½ Tbs lemon juice 1 small garlic clove minced salt pepper ¼ c buttermilk ½ c mayonnaise (hellmans/best mayo preferred) 2 Tbs chopped flat leaf...
Here’s a real "salad bar style" blue cheese dressing that works alongside a burger, with beets or on an iceberg wedge. I made some chicken burgers recently that were delicious only because they had minced Nueske bacon throughout and a lot of this dressing on top. 1 minced shallot (2...
This butter is nothing more than a stick of butter seasoned with aromatics. You can store it in the freezer or slice off a bit as you need it. Great on steak, fish, shrimp, chicken, potatoes, or other veggies. You can also use this as a base and add different...
1 pound breakfast sausage 2 Tbs butter 4 Tbs. flour 2 1/2-3 c whole milk Salt and pepper Red pepper flakes Crumble sausage into a hot cast iron skillet and brown over medium heat. I use a whisk to break the sausage into fine pieces. I add a little crushed...
My friend Savita made kitchari for me after my first child was born. It’s an essential ayurvedic dish made with mung lentils and rice, standard during cleanses that is supposed to be healing and easy to digest. Savita added kale and a bit of coconut milk to her version, and...
This recipe is based on the curried cauliflower at AOC. After working at AOC, I started a lunch program at a local charter school and wanted to put dal and curried cauliflower and carrots on the menu. I knew we would have to introduce curry in cooking class to familiarize...
As a member of the chicory family, escarole is definitely bitter, but it can also have a subtle sweetness, especially this time of year. It’s tender and crisp enough to eat raw, but sturdy and bold enough to grill, sear, braise or toss in a soup. If keeping it raw,...
Corina always had this salad on the recipe at Canele. The vinaigrette is particularly pungent, but you can adjust the anchovy and garlic to your liking. You can also be used on escarole, arugula or other greens. salad ingredients: 1 bunch trimmed and washed dandelion 2 stalks of celery sliced...
Roma tomatoes have less water than other varieties, so they work well for a traditional marinara or oven-roasted tomatoes. At my first kitchen job, I had to score, blanch, peel, halve, deseed, and oven roast 50 pounds of fresh Roma tomatoes every day. For the last 20 years, I’ve oven-roasted...
Here’s a link for Suzanne Goin’s version of this classic Italian style vegetable preparation. Everyone should try to cook this at least once. Let it cook long and slow, and something magical will happen. It’s good on bread with burrata, in bean soup, in an omelet, in a warm grain...
When we first started getting the green garlic, the white part was more like a leek, narrow and without any suggestion of a clove. I imagine the heads of the green garlic might be more bulbous this week, and we’ll be able to distinguish the individual cloves. At some point,...
At Canele brunch, we served slices of this pound cake with a dollop of whipped cream on top and an espresso shot on the side. The idea was that you would pour the espresso onto the cake. We called it coffee cake. It’s also great with berries and whipped cream....
