Peaches and rum are like an “a-ha!” moment, so perfectly do their flavors go together. Brush peach halves with a basting sauce of sweetened, cinnamon-flecked, rum-spiked butter, and they grill to perfection—sticky and caramelized on the outside, juicy and sweet throughout. Excerpted from The Total Grilling Manual: 264 Essentials for Cooking with Fire. Edited by […]
Recipes
Rhubarb Spritz
When freelance recipe developer and food stylist Allison Kreitler visited the studio recently, she brought along the ingredients for her signature Rhubarb Spritz, along with plenty of delicious alternative uses for the rhubarb simple syrup that makes the mocktail or cocktail really something special. Use the rhubarb syrup to sweeten lemonade, brush it between layers of a while cake with lemon curd, glaze […]
Chorizo with Clams and Rice
Everyone knows how much I love paella–but this is even better. The dish is a traditional northern Spanish clam dish where the rice is almost soupy. No socarrat here! The secret is to steam the fresh clams separately before adding them to the rice. Be sure to reserve the cooking liquid from the clams to […]
Carole Peck’s Knock-Out Salad of Tomatoes, Peaches and Corn
It’s always a delicious conversation when Carole Peck from Good News Café in Woodbury joins the Food Schmooze®. This time, Carole brought an idea that hadn’t occurred to us before. It’s her knock-out salad that’s summer on a plate. Listen: Subscribe to our podcast and never miss a drop of pleasure, or listen to this […]
Faith Buys a Spiralizer to Make Zucchini ‘Spaghetti’ with Chile & Lemon
We kept saying we don’t need a spiralizer, the little hand-held device you twist to turn a variety of vegetables into faux pasta noodles. We said that until we tried an inexpensive spiralizer from Oxo and in two minutes made long thin curly strands of zucchini. Looked like pasta. With the sauce, tasted like pasta […]
Sunday Morning Masala Omelet
This dish always reminds me of my days as a young college student when I often traveled overnight on Indian Railways to visit far-off cities. When the trains pulled into stations at dawn, vendors ran up and down the tracks shouting out the names of the foods they were hawking: “Vada pao!” “Garam chai!” and […]
