Category Archives: VERY CULINARY

Here’s a fun fact: 50% of people who purchase live lobsters don’t know how to cook them! If this is you, don’t feel bad, you’re not alone! People often ask how to perfectly boil, steam, or grill their live lobsters. Cooking and handling live lobsters is part of the fun! We recommend that you start […]

Dutch Baby Pancakes! – The “winning combination” for the perfect Dutch Babies is to start with your homemade blended batter, a hot oven, and a very hot skillet! Start with a thin, pancake-like batter in that very hot skillet. Melt some butter and pour the batter into the skillet all at once and slide it […]

(above) Bananas are simply sauteed in butter and sprinkled with cinnamon for this healthly dessert. These bananas may be the best tasting no sugar added food on this planet! In New Orleans, the Brennan family (known for their famous restaurants) grew up eating fried bananas with cinnamon which evolved into the famous dessert “Bananas Foster” […]

DELICIOUS TURKEY MEAT SAUCE SERVED IN ONION CUPS While cooking our fabulous turkey meat sauce we turn two halves of an onion (flat side down) in the center of our 16″ cast iron skillet, while the saucy mixture cooks. These softened onions absorb the flavors of the other ingredients while transferred their delicious flavor into […]

Enjoy a much appreciated and healthy Mediterranean meal. Ratatouille, hummus, rice, and salad. The perfect way to plate ratatouille is shown above, with perfectly cooked brown rice, a serving of hummus accented with a sprinkle of paprika, and a green salad topped with homemade feta cheese/buttermilk dressing and a kalamata olive.   Recipe for Ratatouille […]

Tillie’s Stuffed Zucchini is a flashback to the golden era of Grand Ma cooking treats when the kids came to visit. To make this delicious Blast-from-the-Past: Dice and sauté: one onion, one green pepper, four stems of celery, AND cook 1/4 lb of ground turkey, Gently seasoning all with steak seasoning, as they cook. Slice […]

Berries and Bubbles Cocktail (Alcohol Version & Virgin Version) The exotic presentation with fog rising up out of the liquid makes this the perfect cocktail for all parties. It can be made with liquor or as a mocktail version. Impress your friends with this one, Berries and Bubbles.   ———- Cocktail with Alcohol: Citrus Vodka […]

Pan-Roasted Salmon & “Pasta Claire with Mushrooms” “Pasta Claire” is a dish created by ARTSandFOOD®️ Magazine’s test kitchen. This meal is fantastic, especially paired with flutes of lemon-flavored sparkling water! The salmon (which we split, 1/2 piece shown) was pan-fried in olive oil, starting on the unseasoned skin side then flipping over (the top side […]

Yellow Squash Lasagna  This was an experimental dish – we substituted layers of baked yellow squash for the wide pasta noodles. The tomato sauce was homemade and was divine plus the yellow squash by itself was delicious, so we knew the flavors were great before we started and the dish was an excellent taste treat. […]

Roasted Head of Cauliflower – There is no easier meal to make than this one.   Simply clean up a head of white cauliflower, rub it all over with olive oil, season it with salt and pepper, then roast it in the oven at 400 degrees for 45 minutes to an hour. If you want […]