Category Archives: VERY CULINARY

Avgolemono Soup – “Ahvo-lemono”, as the Greeks pronounce it, is a silky, rich, fragrant soup—often with chicken in it. Greek-style avgolemono soup is a lemon, egg, and rice concoction. We started our original soup creation with the idea of an avgolemono soup dancing in our head but adding a Cuban accent with a spicy black […]

For these fancy flatbreads, use puff pastry*, cherry & grape tomatoes, grilled onions, plus sunny side up eggs (all seasoned your way)! *We used Pillsbury Crescent Rolls with two triangles left intact and baked them flat with sliced mini-tomatoes on top at 350* for 15 minutes (checking to see if they were browned before removing […]

NOSTALGIA HAS BEEN FORCED UPON US – AND IT’S SO MUCH FUN! Covid turned back the clock, slowed things down, gave us fewer options for eating and we also started working from home and attending zoom school at home! So cooking at home became the norm again, and families gathered around the dinner table took […]

This chicken salad makes for a picture-perfect buffet dish to serve at a party. Garden fresh tomato slices (or from a farmer’s market – often a different vegetable from what we buy in the grocery stores), Freshly peeled and sliced avocados, Trimmed and sliced English cucumber, Sliced ripe strawberries, and Baked Chicken with Salad Greens […]

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 […]