Port poached pears are such a treat and a great end to a holiday dinner. If you’re planning a heavy complex holiday dinner, perhaps you would like a simple desert that looks beautiful but requires very little effort. Port poached pears deliver in that regard, they look impressive and pack a tasty punch, and so easy to create. Another bonus is that you can make these port poached pears a day in advance and serve them hot or cold, all you need to do is decide when to serve.
If you’re looking for a hearty salad with just four ingredient plus dressing, try this brussels sprouts salad. All you’ll need is brussels sprouts leaves, leaks, mushrooms and chorizo for the salad, and for the buttermilk dressing you’ll need, buttermilk, mayo, olive oil and freshly ground black pepper.
This red beans and rice recipe is a cross between Jamaican stew peas and rice and a creole red beans and rice. This is a lighter less complex dish, the way I enjoy it, and I hope you will too.
For Thanksgiving a large bird is not always an option for smaller families and those on a budget, so the dish I’m sharing with you today is very cost effective and can also be scaled up or down dependent upon the number of people you’re feeding. Yam and Cranberry Stuffed Turkey Tenderloin, it’s a great alternative to the traditional bird for Thanksgiving, and one turkey tenderloin is more than enough for one person.
I haven’t met a sole who doesn’t love truffle mac and cheese, I imagine those same folks would also love five cheese truffle mac and cheese – right? Granted, it’s a little more cheesy, but if you’re afraid of extra cheese, I don’t think mac and cheese is your gig.
The recipe I’m sharing with you today is a fantastic cheesy marvel with a gooey fall apart base rising to a denser crunchy top courtesy of my friend, panko breadcrumbs. You’re gonna love this.
Roast duck with orange sauce makes for a marvelous celebratory meal or Sunday supper. Apart from the duck’s delicious gamey taste bathed in a subtle orange sauce, it’s a cinch to cook. Today’s recipe is uncomplicated, the meat is cooked with a little seasoning and the boozy ingredient in the orange sauce gives the meal an interesting zing. The sauce is not the star in this dish though, the duck is, just add one-two tablespoons of orange sauce to each serving, the sauce should be barely there.
Add coconut curried cauliflower to your Thanksgiving dinner, it will be such a treat, something different on the table for your family and friends, and it will look so beautiful too, everyone will want to taste it.
You have some friends coming by for dinner, and you’d like to give them something interesting to nibble on while they enjoy drinks before dinner is served, what could you serve them that’s easy and light? Problem solved, as soon as they arrive prepare a plate of blistered shishito peppers. These are so easy to make, they just take five minutes and bingo, bango, boom you have them.
I look forward to the NYC Marathon every year, I have a birds eye view as the route goes by my apartment. Preparation for the NYC Marathon starts early every year on the Sunday morning of the marathon, if I don’t get enough rest the night before then it’s tough cheese for me. Tables are strategically placed for volunteers to hand out water and bananas, and throngs of people come to take their place to cheer on their family and friends, and well just anyone who is taking part.
Here’s three of the front runners surrounded by cameramen and police – isn’t this awesome?!
