European poach recipes

What has 25 calories per ounce, 27 grams of protein per serving, and only 1.5 total grams of fat?

Red Snapper. Yes, you heard it…

Elizabethan Quince Cheese

I have had a bumper year for quince in 2011 and have decided to make various preserves and desserts with my amazing fruity haul ~ I shall be…

Chicken Ballotine

Salad with pears with cheese sauce

Pumpkin gnocchi with herb butter

Maccheroni al limone. Sardinia Island.

Sardinia, a beautiful island. I've always tried to understand his people and of course cuisine. It was not…

poached salmon fillet

poached salmon fillet

Bruchetta Eggs Benedict

I wanted something different tonight--I did not want to make regular boring ol' eggs benedict. While at the grocery getting Canadian bacon, the…

White Asparagus with Hollandaise Sauce

This dish brings me back to my Vienna days: white asparagus and potatoes with hollandaise sauce. The appearance…

Gnocchi Carmelita's Way

For soft light fluffy pillows that taste of potato, I have always made potato gnocchi without using egg at all and keeping the amount of flour to a…

Filetti di pesce all'acqua pazza

Acqua pazza, or 'crazy water' is the humorous term for an extremely easy, but tasty way to poach fish--or, more…

Mezzelune al brasato (Half-moon Pasta filled with Braised Beef)

Here's a wonderful way to 'recycle' leftover brasato (beef braised in red wine) or other pot roast—as a filling…

Pere al vino rosso (Pears in Red Wine Sauce)

Dessert is our house is normally a piece of fruit, perhaps with some cheese, and, in winter, some mixed nuts in…

How to Make Potato Gnocchi from Scratch

It's not nearly as hard as you may think!

Crab salpicón

A light and refreshing crab salad typical from Northwestern Spain, breeze from the Atlantic sea on your plate!