Italian meat sauce mix is a bulk-batch freezer sauce: hot Italian sausage and ground beef slow-simmered for 8 hours with tomato puree, basil, and hidden broccoli and cauliflower florets. Makes 8 pints to stash.
Creamy winter vegetable soup loaded with potatoes, carrots, spinach, cabbage, and leeks in a bacon-enriched broth. Half pureed for velvety body with chunky texture in every spoonful.
Swiss steak braises tough, flour-dredged beef low and slow in a herby tomato gravy with onions, peppers, and mushrooms until fork-tender. A classic one-skillet comfort dinner made for mashed potatoes.
Oysters Souvenir de Tahaa breads and pan-fries fresh-shucked oysters, then plates them around a silky cream-of-shallots sauce reduced with white wine, lemon and oyster liquor.
Traditional Irish stew layered with lamb chops on the bone, sliced potatoes, onions, and parsley-thyme seasoning, then oven-braised low and slow until everything melts together.
Seafood strata layered with crab meat, oyster crackers, water chestnuts, and peas in a lobster bisque custard. Assembled the night before and baked golden for an easy brunch or dinner.
Make your own vegetarian chicken stock that achieves that lovely golden colour and is perfect for noodle soups and is packed with veggie goodness.
A fancy turkey pot pie baked in Mini squash halves and topped with whole wheat herbed biscuits.
A fancy turkey pot pie baked in Mini squash halves and topped with whole wheat herbed biscuits.
June soup is a chunky split pea and summer vegetable soup brightened with lemony sorrel and built on a lemon-scented homemade chicken stock. Rustic, fresh, and left deliberately unblended so every vegetable keeps its bite.
Light turkey jambalaya: a Louisiana-style one-pot rice dish built with lean turkey breast and turkey sausage instead of pork and andouille. All the Creole flavor, half the fat.
Quick beef stir-fry with fresh mushrooms, sweet pepper, and a savory white wine sauce served over rice. Ready in 45 minutes, this herb-seasoned wok dish makes a satisfying weeknight dinner for six.
Grilled tuna steaks with a pureed yellow pepper sauce, served alongside grilled zucchini, red onion, and potatoes splashed with balsamic vinegar. A colorful, restaurant-quality seafood dinner.
Manhattan clam linguine in a creamy white wine sauce with garlic, basil, thyme, and Parmesan. Pasta cooked in clam liquor for extra briny depth in every strand.
Don't let that chicken go dry, but instead try this flavorful recipe that will help you start your own personal cookbook.
Santa Fe flank steak rubbed with rehydrated guajillo chiles, garlic, brown sugar, and thyme, then broiled to medium-rare. A bold Southwestern steak in 30 minutes.