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Pork San Choi Bow
A Passion for Asian Flavors takes us to…Australia! Ever since I went to Vietnam two years ago, through Singapore and Hong Kong, I’ve been on the lookout for Asian recipes. I love the combination of flavors, the ease of a stir-fry and the speed with…
Ropa Vieja, Cuba’s National Dish
A great stew is served up with a wonderful story about its origins. This is one of my favorite kinds of recipes. There’s a story attached to it that’s as interesting as the stew itself. Cuba’s national dish translates to “Old Clothes”– about as unappetizing…
Claudia Fleming’s Chocolate Caramel Tart
Come ‘Out East’ for a recipe a famous Pastry Chef gave a special twist to. The East End of Long Island is extremely fortunate in the caliber of chefs that are either restaurant owners or lured here to work in what is a gorgeous place…
Pork Chops in Lemon-Caper Sauce from Toni Tipton-Martin
A new cookbook celebrates the contribution of African-American Chefs to America’s Culinary heritage. Toni Tipton-Martin has collected almost 400 cookbooks with a singular focus. Every one of them was written by or for African-American cooks. When she had collected over 150 of these cookbooks, she…
American Chili Con Carne and Skillet Cornbread
Get ready for the cold with a Big Pot of Chili and a wedge of terrific Cornbread. We’re bracing for an Arctic blast here this weekend. And nothing says “Let’s make a big pot of Chili” like an overnight drop below freezing. Now there are…
Xi’an Famous’ Spicy Cumin Lamb Noodles
New York’s most recent addition to Chinese Food is a solid hit. The last time I wrote about Xi’an Famous Foods there were just 8 branches of this wildly popular chain of Chinese restaurants scattered around New York. Now there are 15. There’s no stopping…
Baked Ziti with (or without) Sausage
A new take on Baked Ziti, an Italian Classic from Recipe Developer Extraordinaire Alison Roman If you’ve ever cooked a recipe from Alison Roman, you’ll be mightily impressed by the spin she puts on Classics. And this dish is a classic. Ziti al forno, which…
Pork with Clams Alentejo Style
This Portuguese Classic was worth the wait…and the time to make it. I’ve waited for months to cook this recipe. I first saw it on our trip to Portugal in July. We actually never tasted the dish while we were there. Now that we have,…
Bobby Flay’s Chicken Parmesan
A dish you can have on the table in under 30 minutes Coming across this recipe was like running into an old friend. It’s from “Bobby at Home: Fearless Flavors from My Kitchen” (Clarkson Potter 2019), Bobby Flay’s latest cookbook. In it he says, “I…
Bobby Flay’s Crispy Coconut-Scallion Rice And the Trader Joe’s Entrées I’d serve with it.
This recipe is a prize winner, time after time. Over the weekend, I was binge-watching “Beat Bobby Flay”. I’d recently bought Bobby Flay’s “Bobby At Home: Fearless Flavors from My Kitchen” (Clarkson Potter 2019). It is his latest in a library of 14 cookbooks he…
The Bridgehampton Inn’s Braised Short Ribs
A New Cookbook Takes Us on a Family Adventure unlike any other. If you’re like me, you read Cookbooks the way other people read novels. That’s why I was particularly taken with Sybille Van Kempen’s superb new book “2266 Bridgehampton Inn & Restaurant”, A Look…
Singaporean Noodles with Two Porks
Take a trip to Singapore tonight with this spicy, flavor-full dish that’s a one dish meal. If you’ve never been to Singapore, you should put it near the top of your list. Before I went there last year, I am ashamed to say that only…
Let’s take a Food Trip to Thailand! Our Guest Writer Shares Her Adopted City’s Best Dishes and Her Recipe for One We Can Make Right Here at Home.
I’m pleased to welcome Melanie Grosjean to Chewing The Fat Today, I welcome one of my fellow Contributors to www.Travel-Wise.com, Melanie Grosjean. Our guest writer grew up in a small farming town in South Central Kentucky. At Grad School in Colorado, she met her husband…
