Summer chili; a fast, delicious one-pot meal!

Just a quick entry for a quick dinner! In this season of delicious bounty, a summer chili featuring ground turkey, fire roasted tomatoes and fresh corn. It cooks up quickly and got a great review from the family, even the 10 year old who doesn’t like chili! This recipe is an adaptation of a recipe…

The CIA; a cooks’s tour of the campus.

As I am sorting pictures and thinking about the weekend, one of the first things that struck me was the sheer thrill of being at the legendary Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. As a personal chef, I have been largely self taught, and coming late to my business in cooking, I missed…

My Culinary Adventures at the CIA! The Gala Dinner

Many of my friends an family know that I was invited to be an assistant chef this weekend at the Fourth Annual Gluten Free Summit. It was exciting on so many levels to be included in this event and I must thank my friend and fellow chef, Marcy Kaminski for recommending me to the organizer…

My new favorite pastry recipe!

Last week I made an apple pie and posted on Facebook about the new pastry recipe I used from America’s Test Kitchen that uses vodka. After many questions and funny comments (my cousin Jen was loving the idea of vodka ala mode) I decided to use the new recipe again and share my thoughts here….

Canning, pickling and preserving!

I remember being a kid and having to help my mom with canning every summer and fall. Peaches, pears, beans, corn, sometimes pickles, and tomatoes..oh the tomatoes! We’d be hot and sweaty (no central air in those days!) and standing for hours peeling and slicing, boiling and filling, processing and cleaning up! It seemed like…