Pan Seared Scallops with Bacon Fennel Cream Sauce
This recipe for pan seared scallops with bacon fennel cream sauce makes an ideal dinner party idea that doesn’t take much time at all. If you prep all your ingredients beforehand and have them at the ready beside the stove, the cooking time should really be about 15 minutes. The creamy fennel flavoured sauce […]
Campanelle Pasta with Sweet Corn, Tomatoes, and Basil
The ingredients in this summery pasta dish are few, so fresh corn and ripe tomatoes are key. To create a creamy sauce without cream, we grate the corn kernels from the cobs. To reinforce the corn flavor, we boil the cobs in the water that is later used to cook the pasta. Using a minimal […]
Curried Ground Shrimp and Noodles
This recipe for spicy, citrusy noodles is a much-loved menu staple at Pêche restaurant in New Orleans. Chef Donald Link is such a fan of their weeknight ease, he’s even known to make them at home, sometimes subbing Massaman curry paste for the curry powder.
Oaxacan Green Mole with Chicken
When we think of mole, we most often think of mahogany-colored mole negro. But as we learned in Oaxaca, there is a wide variety of moles, each with a unique character. Mole verde—or green mole—is traditionally made with pork and gets its bright, fresh flavor from a blend of fresh chilies, tomatillos and herbs. […]
Better Chicken Marsala
In our recipe for chicken Marsala, we take a new approach to fabricating and cooking chicken cutlets. First, we cut each chicken breast in half crosswise. Then, we cut the thicker half in half horizontally to make three identically sized pieces that can easily be pounded into cutlets. We salt the cutlets briefly to boost […]
Chicken Marsala (featuring sweet Marsala)
This is ATK's original Chicken Marsala recipe from season 2 of the show that uses a sweet Marsala wine. ATK has since updated the recipe with a "better" savory version and they have removed the original recipe from their site. They have even linked the updated version to the original video episode. Whether you […]
Paella for Two
This classic saffron-scented rice dish from Valencia, Spain, with its signature crispy bottom crust and a melange of proteins, often contains a laundry list of ingredients, requires special equipment (a traditional, shallow Paella pan), and is meant to serve a crowd. To make paella for two people, we found some shortcuts. First, we used […]
Mushroom Carbonara
Mushrooms take the place of the traditional cured pork in this vegetarian carbonara recipe—but fear not, the dish does not lack depth of flavor! A deep browning on the mushrooms, coupled with garlic and shallots, brings the humble button mushroom to a higher place. This pasta is rich, creamy and packed with flavor.
Creamy Steak Fettuccine
There is without a doubt nothing finer than a perfectly cooked steak. Slicing it into perfect slithers it’s almost impossible not to sneak the odd chunk away for “testing”. Naughty! The silky, creamy pasta with the perfect tang of tomatoes and aroma of garlic makes this into the most luxurious mid-week dinner you’ll ever eat.
Moorish Paella
I love paella because it is a little more hearty and cozy than a lot of pasta dishes but just as versatile–you can pretty much fill the dish with whatever you have on hand. I came up with this recipe after a dinner party left me with a few lamb sausages, lots of spices and […]
Pasta Con le Sarde (Sicilian Pasta With Sardines)
A classic pasta from Palermo in Siciliy, pasta con le sarde (pasta with sardines) is unlike just about any other Italian pasta dish. Heavily influenced by the cooking of Arabs who ruled Sicily more than a thousand years ago, it features long bucatini or spaghetti in a slick, luscious, and fragrant sauce made from onions, […]
Hot and Spicy Coconut Prawns
I’m warning you – this is a hot one! But, of course, you can reduce the quantity of chillies to suit your taste. The fresh prawns and big pieces of coconut are a match made in heaven. Curry leaves and fennel seeds also help give this dish a unique flavour. Perhaps best of all, […]
Adult “SpaghettiOs”
These are extra saucy and a little sweet like the original SpaghettiOs, but with grown-up flavors all around.
Kashmiri Lamb Rogan Josh
Slow-cooked lamb curry with ginger, chilli, yoghurt and saffron. The list of ingredients in my recipe is small (relatively – I love that!) but those with a very distant flavor. In the olden days it was said that ‘Ratan jog’ was used in the dish. A herb from the region of Kashmir; ground down to […]
Chicken Florentine Pasta
We turned Chicken Florentine into our new favorite pasta dinner.
Vegan Peanut, Sweet Potato, and Kale Soup With Coconut
There’s nothing traditional about this soup, but that doesn’t stop it from being delicious. The version of West African groundnut soup I ate in my youth was a thick, peanut-packed broth made with chicken, spices, and tomatoes, but recipes for maafe (as it’s called in Mali) vary hugely. I’m taking that as free license […]