Category: Sauces
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Father’s Day Apple Cake With Honey Balsamic Toffee Sauce
What I love most about being a professional chef is teaching others how to cook and bake. Baking was always my first love and from the start, I did it well. Cooking was something I learned at a young age, and not something I ever aspired to do — it was something that developed over…
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Grape Leaf Dolmades The Greek Way
I’ve always considered dolmades the perfect food – what other single food item provides you with a vegetable, a carb AND a protein in one tidy little packet? I’m not exaggerating when I say that I have probably eaten hundreds, if not thousands of them in my life. Making them requires some time and patience…
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No Bake Summer Berry Pudding
I’m sure you’ve seen recipes for this type of no bake puddings before. I remember Martha Stewart making it years ago, and since then many others have reproduced the dessert without any changes in the process. Basically, this no bake berry pudding includes plain white (or wheat) bread, your choice of berries along with a…
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Crispy & Craggly Potato Cakes With Caramelized Ham Steak
Those who know me, know that I love potatoes…and one of my favorite ways to eat them is in potato cakes where the edges get crispy yet the inside stays moist and tender. I usually like to shred my potatoes when making potato cakes, but I found a better way to make them where you…
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Non-Traditional Chicken & Waffles
When you’ve been given a gift, you want to do your best to honor it in the best way that you can, so when Gina Metcalfe Lee sent me some of her bottled sauces, I wanted to take the time to do them all justice. One of the first things I decided to make was…
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Sweet, Salty and Spicy Platanos Maduros
One year after my family came to the USA, I met my best friend Mireya, who happened to be Cuban. I was 13 and she was 15, and because of the similarities in our backgrounds, we became fast friends. I was quickly accepted into her family and their circle of friends. Her mother was like…
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Sweet & Salty Three Cheese Tart With Caramelized Figs
Sometimes you want something different in a dessert. I don’t know about you but I love a sweet, salty and delicately spicy combination in desserts…and when it comes together as it should it’s true nirvana. I often have cheese and fruit for dessert, so I wanted to combine some of my favorite cheese items into…
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Peach Melba Sauce
I’m glad to say that I wear the title of fruit fanatic with great pride….I’ve always loved fruit. Having spent my first few years in Brazil, our family doctor encouraged my parents to feed us as much fruit (especially papaya) as they could. My parents didn’t know then just how good for you papayas were,…
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Vanilla Black Pepper Semifreddo With Pineapple Rum Compote
I love all kinds of fruit and I’m especially partial to fresh pineapple…and not just any pineapple, it has to be the sweet golden variety. On a recent trip to the Asian market in Baltimore, I found some HUGE golden pineapples for sale for $1.99 each, so I just had to pick up a few.…
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Going Stout Instead Of Green For St. Paddy’s Day
When it came time to think about what desserts to make for St Paddy’s Day, I didn’t want to do the more traditional ones of the green variety…don’t get me wrong, they’re fun to make and eat, but there are some other great flavors out there that are enjoyed by many, but not always so…
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A Beautiful Bearnaise
I was a vegetarian for many years, so it will not surprise you when I say that I’m not much of a meat eater. Don’t get me wrong, I love a good steak, but it’s not something I would indulge in every day…give me a great piece of fish on the other hand, and I…