We wanted a light easy dinner, so we had these beautiful shell steaks that we cubed and tossed with some salt, pepper and olive oil. skewered the cubes alternating with onions and red and green bell peppers and broiled in the oven at the hi...
I have been wanting to make tiramisu for a while. I think it's been a couple of years since i last tried this recipe . Mascarpone cheese, eggs, whipped cream, oporto, espresso and cocoa layered over coffee soaked ladyfingers cookies. But i also wanted to...
Porotos granados- the very typical chilean summer bean soup. so good. made with fresh beans that you buy still in their pods. the closest to this kind we have found here are the fresh cranberry beans. Part of the fun on this dish is gathering with...
Today a bought a fresh whole red snapper from Florida at Fairway. $5.99 a pound. the whole fish was 5 lbs. after weighting it the fishmonger cleaned and scaled the fish for me. I decided to prepare it a la Veracruzana. first I cleaned...
Our friend Mike Schultz is leaving NY and moving to Oregon. we got together to wish him farewell and we went for dinner to this little restaurant close to our place called Zu-Zu ramen. a noodle soup place. I ordered the signature dish which the...
These were two nice big and thick rib eye steaks. they were to big for two to fit in a pan so i tried to sear one side of them one steak at a time and then put them on a baking sheet, salted and...
Claudia, getting creative with food. this is an hybrid opensandwich, pitapizza , salad-unwrapped. Chicken pieces, (not really grilled but the leftover chicken from the rice and chicken dinner from a couple of nights ago.) , a thin bed of the yellow rice, raw celery sticks, a...
this is an other one by Claudia. this is cooked shell pasta, placed on a baking dish, drenched with white cheese béchamel sauce and toped with a "a la vodka" tomato sauce from a jar and lots of freshly grated parmesan cheese, then baked in...
Claudia came up with this one. she cooked the rice with a little saffron in one pot and cooked the chicken in a a separate pan, marrying them after the rice was done so the chicken pieces didn't dry out....
Oh! Burgers again. Love them. I made a corn salad to go with it. roasted fresh corn, red bell peppers, mayo, onions and cilantro. it looked a little "loose" and "fork-able" next to the "hand-able" burger, so to equalize the handling characteristic of this dinner,...