Lomo Saltado is a popular dish in Peruvian cuisine. The Spanish introduced the pepper steak to Peru, but Chinese immigrants made it famous. They took the steak and pepper, added a bit of potato and soy sauce, and one of Peru’s favorite foods was born: Lomo Saltado! There are many variations of this dish, but…
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Romesco Sauce
Romesco Sauce originates from Catalonia, Spain and is typically made from almonds, pine nuts, and/or hazelnuts, garlic, olive oil, and nyora peppers, a smaller, sweet, dried variety of red bell pepper. Other common ingredients can include roasted tomatoes, red wine vinegar or sherry vinegar, and onion. Leaves of fennel, mint, or parsley can also be…
Real Meatballs and Spaghetti
I’ve made numerous versions of spaghetti and meatballs over the years, but from the first time I tried Ina Garten’s recipe for this dish from Barefoot Contessa Family Style I knew my search had ended. She was right on in naming it Real Meatballs and Spaghetti because the meatballs definitely deserve top billing. They are…
Pan-Seared Strip Steak With Red-Wine Pan Sauce And Pink Peppercorn Butter
I usually prefer my steak seasoned generously with kosher salt, and lots of freshly cracked black pepper, and simply grilled to a crispy crusty exterior with an interior somewhere between medium rare and medium. Sometimes I may add a drizzle of olive oil and a few cloves of smashed garlic. After seasoning it I will…
Stuffed Peppers
This recipe for Stuffed Peppers comes from a little known book that my husband gave me shortly after we were married 40 years ago. Excuse me for a minute…it’s a little frightening to see that in print. Really? 40 years? Okay, I’m recovered…now back to the meat of the matter…see, I haven’t lost my sense…
Sheila’s Spaghetti and Hearty Meat Sauce
Spaghetti and meat sauce is always a welcome meal during the winter months at our home. Nothing warms you like a plate of pasta smothered in a hearty red sauce. This is simple down home cooking at its best. I developed this recipe many years ago when I was still a novice at cooking. However,…
Sweet-And-Sour Stuffed Cabbage
Sweet-And-Sour Stuffed Cabbage is a popular dish in the American Jewish cuisine. Today you will find a variety of stuffed cabbage recipes available. This sweet-and-sour version filled with ground meat originates from eastern Europe, specifically Poland and Russia, the birthplace of all four of my grandparents. It is a dish my mother made for us…
Favorite Meat Loaf
When you can open an eight hundred and seventy-seven page hard bound cookbook automatically to the page that holds the recipe for your favorite meat loaf, it’s a good bet you’ve been to that page many, many times before. This is the case with my copy of James Beard’s American Cookery, and his recipe for…
Beef, Barley, And Butternut Squash Stew
This is a recipe I adapted from the current issue of Fine Cooking magazine. The original recipe calls for serving it with blue cheese croutons, which is a mixture of butter, blue cheese and walnuts spread on baguette slices and broiled til crisp. I preferred to serve this more as a soup than a stew…
Boeuf Bourguignon (Beef Stew With Red Wine)
This hearty beef stew, or Boeuf Bourguignon as the French call it, is a meal you’ll remember whether you’re dining in a cozy French bistro or in the warmth of your own home. The recipe is from Ina Garten’s Barefoot In Paris Cookbook. All of the dishes she writes about in this book are true…