If you haven’t signed up to join ChefSteps.com, I highly recommend it. They also have a great YouTube channel. ChefSteps provides an array of recipes ranging from easy to advanced, and when they say advanced, the complexity is up there with Iron Chef gods.
This chicken noodle soup recipe blew my mind. At first glance, it doesn’t look like anything special. However, the chicken IS the noodles, making this instructional video far from mundane.
Oysters don’t have to be reserved for a special occasion or only enjoyed in a fine restaurant. They’re quite easy to prepare at home whether served raw or cooked. I’d also like to share with you a delectable, magical, fantastical sauce made from Hog Island’s hogwash recipe and my own little sumthin sumtthin on top. This preparation is absolutely the best way I’ve had oysters.
Recipe and how to shuck video after the jump. I hope I’ve demystified making oysters at home for some 🙂
In my opinion, whipped butter is the best thing to come along since sliced bread. I came up with this super simple recipe to serve whipped butter with dinner rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. Roasted garlic also is amazing when spread on bread, why not have it all? Add in some chopped fresh herbs and you have a sinfully savory spread.
Roasting garlic in the oven takes about an hour. You can roast the garlic the day before and finish in about 5 minutes the day you want to serve.
I find that removing the garlic bulb skin before roasting is a lot easier than cutting the bulb in half and wrapping the cloves with the skin in aluminum foil. It’s a little extra work in the beginning but once the bulbs are roasted, they can just get dumped into a food processor.
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