My dear friend, Bootsie, gave me this recipe. There are many Taco Soup recipes, but this one does not have the preservatives of packaged taco seasoning. The recipe calls for several canned ingredients making it fast and easy, but the fresh onions, bell pepper and seasonings give this recipe its fresh flavor. Enjoy!
If you have ever planted Cherry Tomatoes, you know how prolific they can be. I bought my plants from a young guy at the Farmer’s Market. I thought I was getting San Marzanos for tomato sauce, instead I got about a dozen Sun Golds and another cherry tomato! With lemons you make lemonade, with tomatoes, you make sauce!
As good as they are, I get tired of eating them plain. So I roasted them with garlic and onion, then added them to cooked pasta along with Asiago Cheese, Parmesan and fresh basil. The fresh roasted Sun Gold Tomatoes made a sweet sauce for the pasta. Change up the ingredients, and make this recipe yours. Add a salad and you have a meal. Enjoy!
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Teaching a Foods Lab in one hour is a hard task, so I was always looking for recipes that could be made in two lab days. Chicken Cacciatore fit the bill. The sauce could be made one day and stored. Then it could be reheated while the pasta was cooking and then served. The recipe calls for chicken breasts or tenders, but when I first started teaching we used a whole chicken in this recipe and I even taught students how to cut up a chicken! My how times have changed.
Do not fail to add the cooking wine. It is the key ingredient for flavor. You can use white wine but in class, we used cooking wine which has salt added. A little story about that- salt was added to cooking wine to keep the cooks from drinking and getting drunk! Enjoy.
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Proud to see my former Culinary Arts student, Omar, working the oyster bar at Tia Juanita’s Fish Camp. I like to order Shrimp Gumbo to see if it’s anything like what I make. To my surprise, the roux tasted exactly like mine! I will order it again along with the Oysters Royale that Omar so generously shared. I’m glad he did, after watching him make them I was ready to order them for dessert. In honor of Omar, I’m sharing the Shrimp Okra Gumbo Recipe by Chef Paul Prudhomme. Enjoy!
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My first introduction to Nasi Goreng was at Odette’s home. This Indonesion fried rice is an everyday dish often made with ham. What makes it so delicious is Kecap or ketjap which is the sweet soy sauce used in her recipe. Later I found this recipe in a Johnson and Wales newsletter. The recipe called for soy sauce but I substituted the sweet soy sauce. After you try this recipe, you will not want to go back to using soy sauce. Enjoy!
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