Italian baked eel (anguilla) marinated in olive oil and white wine vinegar, skewered with bay leaves, and roasted until golden. A traditional Mediterranean seafood dish with bold, simple flavors.
Haricot Vert are tender French string beans. Use regular string beans if your supermarket doesn't carry them.
One-pot rustic stew with rabbit, hare, veal, or chicken simmered with leeks, garlic, pearl barley, bay, and sage. A rural British-style dish where the barley doubles as starch and vegetable.
"Chinese" chicken salad by David Cassidy, adapts to serve any number of people.
Americanized version of Maggie Beer's recipe I saw on Masterchef Australia 2011 the other day.
Hard-seared chicken breasts finished with a tangy white wine vinegar, garlic, and thyme pan sauce. A French bistro classic ready in just 25 minutes with 8 simple ingredients.
Simple cold lentil salad with a zippy Dijon vinaigrette, fresh tomatoes, and herbs. A high-fiber vegetarian side that's budget-friendly and packed with plant-based protein.
Red kidney bean and apple salad with garlic, cilantro, parsley, and a white wine vinegar dressing. A five-minute vegetarian salad with no cooking required.
Lemony Caesar salad with homemade anchovy spread on walnut toast, a from-scratch lemon-garlic dressing, and shaved Parmesan. Three components, one composed plate.
Justin's Barbecue Sauce: a Cajun-style finishing sauce with red wine, ketchup, hot sauce, garlic, and aromatic vegetables. Two-hour simmer for depth, served over barbecue not basted.
Try this succulent dish made with granny smith apples and a bit of honey. Bound to be a crowd-pleaser!
Asian vegetable salad with pineapple, snow peas, carrots, red bell peppers, and watercress in a pineapple-ginger-soy sesame dressing. A light, colorful make-ahead side for barbecues and potlucks.
Red potato salad with bacon dresses skin-on baby reds in a vinegar-spiked mayo with crisp bacon, yellow onion, scallions, and hard-boiled eggs. The picnic side dish that disappears first.
The chicken breast was so succulent, and the stuffing was loaded with great flavour. Salsa and pumpkin seeds were wonderful additions to serve.
Sichuan chicken stir-fry ready in 10 minutes flat. Cornstarch-dusted chicken cubes wok-seared with garlic, soy, vinegar, scallions, and cayenne for a fast weeknight dinner with serious heat.
Sauteed catfish dredged in thyme-flour, pan-fried golden, then plated under a sweet-tangy ginger peach sauce and toasted pecans. The Southern fish-fry tradition meets summer fruit in one elegant skillet dinner.
Making your own mustard is easy and a perfect compliment to home-made deli recipes. You can control how smooth and how rustic and chunky your mustard is. This makes about 3/4 cup of mustard.
Japanese pickled cauliflower, a quick refrigerator pickle with green pepper and celery in a sweet-tart brine with a surprising splash of cola for caramel depth.
Fresh pineapple slaw with shredded carrot, julienned green pepper, honey-pineapple vinaigrette, and crumbled blue cheese. A no-mayo tropical slaw that's bright and crunchy.
Cajun-seasoned chicken breasts pan-glazed with melted hot pepper jelly, fresh ginger, red onion, and white wine vinegar. A sweet-spicy-tangy one-skillet chicken dinner from a Delmarva cooking contest finalist.
Rustic herb and barley stew with rabbit, leeks, garlic, and sage simmered until fall-off-the-bone tender. Pearl barley thickens the broth into a hearty, one-pot meal.
Filet mignon strips marinated in soy, sherry, garlic and ginger, then woven onto bamboo skewers for hot oil fondue. Served with a crunchy beansprout and Chinese leaf salad on the side.
It's wonderful served with grilled meats, a pork chop, for example. It's also very nice mixed with some yogurt to toss with hot pasta for a low-fat quick dinner. And stir some into some soup; it will perk up almost anything without being overwhelming.
Ash reshteh, the classic Persian noodle soup thick with kidney beans, chickpeas, lentils, spinach, fresh herbs, and beets, finished with a tangy whey or vinegar swirl. Pure comfort.
Warm couscous with roasted butternut squash, chickpeas, red pepper, and cumin. A vibrant vegan fall dish that's meal-prep friendly and full of earthy, roasted flavor.
Whole chicken marinated 24 hours in a fiery jerk paste of scotch bonnets, ginger, allspice, and thyme, then roasted and seared. Authentic Jamaican jerk chicken with real heat.
Seared beef tenderloin tossed with colorful tri-color peppers, sesame oil, and a bright white wine vinegar finish. This 35-minute stir-fry is low-carb, high-protein, and bursting with flavor.
Grilled BBQ chicken drumsticks served with two creamy dips: fiery horseradish and tangy country Dijon mustard. Grill 24 drumsticks in under 20 minutes for a crowd-ready cookout spread or game day feast.
With a variety of spices, the aroma from this dish is sure to make the kids set the table for dinner.
Cold pasta salad with wine-poached chicken, capers, lemon, and red peppers in a bright olive oil vinaigrette. A Sicilian-inspired piccata twist on classic pasta salad.
Traditional Spanish black bean soup simmered all day with green peppers, garlic, oregano, bay leaves, and olive oil. Thick, hearty, and naturally vegan. Serve over rice.
Warm sauteed apples, pears, and onion rings in a honey-sherry-vinegar sauce served over fresh spinach. A warm-cold salad with sweet fruit and tangy dressing that wilts the greens.
Cold Italian pasta salad loaded with pepperoni, mushrooms, zucchini, and tomatoes in a tangy mayo-mustard dressing. A no-cook crowd-pleaser that gets better as it chills.
Avocados, pomegranate and grapes in a slightly sweet vinaigrette. Healthy and sophisticated bursting with textures and flavors.
General Tsao was a real person, general and poet who lived in China 155-220AD.
Salmon steaks baked with white wine, dill, and onion, then topped with a briny caper sauce made from low-fat yogurt and light mayo. A light, flavorful dinner for two ready in 40 minutes.
From a manuscript in the British Library known as Harleian 479, dating from around 1420; recipe adapted.
A whole fish baked Cuban-style on a bed of sauteed onions and peppers, rubbed with a garlic-oregano paste and bathed in tomato puree, lime juice, and white wine. Feeds 6 in under 80 minutes.
A delicious cabbage soup made with chicken broth, ham hock and wine vinegar.
Traditional German sauerbraten marinated for 3 days in vinegar and spices, then braised until fork-tender with a sweet-sour gravy thickened with gingersnap cookies. Authentic old-world pot roast flavor.
Wok-fried sweet and sour pork: classic Chinese-American restaurant-style pork with crispy battered cubes, pineapple, green pepper, and a glossy red sweet-sour sauce. Fry at home, skip takeout.
Love in Disguise: stuffed pig's hearts braised in tomato sauce with mustard and bay leaves. A traditional British offal dish that turns humble cuts tender and rich.
Slow cooker pork chops in a tangy mustard-vinegar sauce with fruit cocktail, dill, and a cornstarch-thickened fruit glaze. A sweet-savory crockpot dinner that cooks hands-off for 4 to 6 hours.
Japanese pickled cauliflower with Coca-Cola: a quirky fridge pickle of crisp cauliflower, bell pepper, and celery in a sweet-tangy cola-vinegar brine. Overnight quick pickles with a Japanese Showa-era twist.
French potato salad with a tarragon vinaigrette of white wine vinegar, olive oil, and grainy mustard. No mayo, just warm potatoes soaking up a bright dressing.
Homemade deviled ham spread with warm spices, hot mustard, anchovy paste, and a whisper of sherry. Skip the canned stuff and make a version that actually tastes like something.
Make your meat feel special with this marinade made from a variety of spices.
Oven-barbecued short ribs braised in a Burgundy wine and tomato sauce with mustard, vinegar, and cayenne. Browned first, then slow-baked covered until fork-tender and falling off the bone.