Recipes where fresh herbs play a starring role
Pollo alla Diavola Discover more Italian regional specialties on one of my small-group food & wine tours to Italy Pollo alla diavola (devil’s chicken) is the typical Italian dish for spatchcocked chicken. What does spatchcock mean? It’s a method of preparing any poultry or game bird for cooking by removing the backbone and flattening it […]
Ratatouille Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class featuring the food of Provence! This versatile Provençal dish is delicious hot or cold, as a standalone vegetarian meal, or an accompaniment to grilled meat, poultry or seafood; it’s a wonderful filling for a Provençal omelette too. There aren’t any hard and fast rules, […]
Entrecôte Café de Paris Discover more delicious Swiss dishes on my small group food & wine tour of Switzerland! A compound butter is one of the easiest ways to turn a piece of meat into a meal. It can be as simple as bottarga or garlic and fresh herbs mixed through butter, or as complex […]
Vichyssoise Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! Created in the early 1900s by the head chef of the New York Ritz Carlton, vichyssoise is a simple potato and leek soup that’s delicious year-round. Serve it cold in summer as a refreshing start to a meal, or warm […]
Chicken Soup with Fregola Avgolemono-Style Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Sardinian cooking class! Who doesn’t love a good chicken soup – the universal panacea? This version is more of a meal than a soup – and it tastes great! It came about as a way to use up the delicious chicken stock leftover […]
Italian Stuffed Artichokes Like artichokes? Let’s eat them together in Rome on my Southern Italian my food & wine tour! I love artichokes, one of the first spring vegetables to appear in greengrocers. I love them finely shaved raw in a salad, deep-fried Roman-style (carciofi alla Giudia), and preserved on an antipasto platter. But most […]
Chicken Pie with Puff Pastry Lid Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! There’s something comforting about a homemade pie. This chicken pie with puff pastry lid is an easy pot pie that I’ve been making for over 30 years. If you’re short on time you can use […]
Gnocchi alla Sorrentina Dine with me at Ristorante da Ciccio on my food & wine tour to Southern Italy & Rome! This deliciously simple dish is so easy even a child can make it (see video below). It’s named for the town of Sorrento, near Italy’s Amalfi Coast, and I first ate it at Ristorante […]