Posts tagged as "What’s new"
FEEL GOOD FOODS
I think food should evoke gpod memories or make you feel gpod in some way – sometimes you don’t even know why a certain dish has an effect on you. Well for me as a chef it’s important to find out all those little things that might trigger the nerve in someone’s brain [...]
Caution Fire!Peppers such as cherry, banana & jalapeno, among many others, leave a warm burning sensation, a tingle on your tongue. They deliver a pleasure-pain sensation. (habaneros and jalapenos – caution fire)They are actually considered a fruit and are part of the nightshade familly. Many peppers have a mild sweet flavor (like red [...]
LEGUMES OF THE MOMENT
String Beans I realized just recently that green beans are all string beans and the meaning is actually unripe beans and does not necessary mean so much the color of beans. There are many types of green beans such as yellow wax, broad, long beans, cranberry, fava beans etc. They are all in [...]
AM I LIKE GEORGE BUSH
Broccoli is a vegetable from the cabbage/mustard green family with a massive flower head and saturateed green color. It’s comparable to cauliflower in shape and size and has a strong cabbage like flavor and you can eat the stem part of the plant when cooked separately from the broccoli roses. I hate broccoli. (shrimp [...]
THE IMMATURE ZUCCHINI FLOWER
Zucchini come in many different shapes and colors at the farmer’s market right now. They are in the squash family and botanically the zucchini is an immature fruit, being the swollen ovary of the female zucchini flower. (right now you'll find plenty of different zucchini at a vegetable market)
Growing zucchiniIf you have grown your [...]
WE’RE OPENING A NEW RESTAURANT
I always get a kick out of a new restaurant concept. Besides all the different design stages for the dining room and kitchen there is serious recipe development going on. For a few weeks our staff in our existing restaurant has been consuming numerous sausages – well someone has to eat the little [...]
THE NEW KID ON THE BLOCK
Every once in a while I come across a vegetable which reminds me of growing up in Austria and enjoying my mother’s home cooking. One of my vegetable farmers had kohlrabi on his stand. Kohlrabi was bred from the origihal wild cabbage plant similar to Brussels sprouts and broccoli. Right now kohlrabi is [...]
DRESSINGS FOR SUMMER
No worries this post is not about what to wear, it’s about making the perfect salad sauce. Generally I refer to salad sauces as vinaigrettes given its name by the main flavoring ingredients e.g. garlic vinaigrette, herb vinaigrette. In cooking school we were taught that a basic oil to vinegar ratio in a [...]
CHERRIES IN AMERICA
In 1912 thousands of cherry trees were given as a gift from the people of Tokyo to the US and planted around the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC. Now year after year thousands of visitors make a pilgrimage to experience the cherry blossom festival to enjoy the beauty of white and pink flowering [...]
COOL SUMMER FOODS
The past couple of weeks we have had lovely weather and high temperatures in New York. With this summer heat I notice a pattern of ordering from my guests – obviously items like oysters or chilled soups are at the top of the list during this time. A delicious strawberry gazpacho has been [...]
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