Main Ingredient Recipes

Real Sweet-and-Sour Pork (Gulao Rou)
Real Sweet-and-Sour Pork (Gulao Rou)

Real Sweet-and-Sour Pork (Gulao Rou) Instructions_Step In a small bowl, combine 1 cup cornstarch and 1/2 cup water to make a smooth paste. Place 1/2 cup cornstarch in a separate bowl. Dip the cubes of...

18 minutes 4
Pommarola (Summer Tomato Sauce) Recipe
Pommarola (Summer Tomato Sauce) Recipe

Pommarola Summer Tomato Sauce Pommarola is used as the summer tomato sauce, and should really be made strictly with fresh tomatoes. Instructions_Step Cut the tomatoes in half. Cut the onion, carrot, ...

1-1/2 to 2 hours 6
Porrata (Leek Pie) Recipe
Porrata (Leek Pie) Recipe

Porrata Leek Pie Strangely enough, the word "puree" seems to derive from the Italian word for leeks, porri. A soup made from porri was called a "porrea." At the annual festival held at San Lorenzo (of ...

45 to 50 minutes 12
Portuguese Roast Stuffed Turkey Recipe
Portuguese Roast Stuffed Turkey Recipe

Maria Eugénia Cerqueira da Mota's Roast Stuffed Turkey Having roasted and written about turkeys for years, I thought I knew all there was to know about this big, beautiful American bird. Well, I was w...

2-1/2 hours about 10 servings
Potatoes Lyonnaise/Pommes Lyonnaise Recipes
Potatoes Lyonnaise/Pommes Lyonnaise Recipes

Potatoes Lyonnaise Lyonnaise Potatoes Potatoes Lyonnaise This is a well-known dish, but so seldom properly cooked that it may be worth while giving the correct recipe. Firm potatoes, boiled in their...

30 minutes To serve 6
Poached Pears with Chocolate Fondue
Poached Pears with Chocolate Fondue

This dessert is a great way to start off the year. It's just a bit indulgent, while offering the health benefit of dark chocolate and fresh fruit. You will always find some type of poached fruit on a Fr...

10 to 25 minutes 6
Veal Cutlets with Broad Beans and Girolles
Veal Cutlets with Broad Beans and Girolles
25 minutes 4

Veal Cutlets with Broad Beans and Girolle Mushrooms From Made in Great Britain, by Aiden Byrne This is one of my favourite dishes. Veal isn't popular in Britain but few are aware that British veal is p...

Original Recipe for Buffalo Chicken Wings
Original Recipe for Buffalo Chicken Wings
10 to 12 minutes 6 servings

Buffalo Chicken Wings This curiously compelling dish was first served in a bar in Buffalo and almost overnight gained nationwide popularity. The chicken is served with celery sticks, which are dipped i...

Oven Braised Salmon with Fennel Recipe
Oven Braised Salmon with Fennel Recipe
30 minutes 8-10

Oven Braised Salmon with Fennel Any leftover salmon and fennel can be combined with cooked rice and a light vinaigrette to make a light lunch. Instructions_Step Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Pla...

Neely's Spicy Fried Chicken Recipe
Neely's Spicy Fried Chicken Recipe
16 - 18 minutes 4 to 6

Spicy Fried Chicken Pat: When I was growing up in the South, there were "soul food" restaurants on every corner. I mean every corner. And there was one entree served in all those restaurants, and that,...

Mushroom Cassoulet Recipe
Mushroom Cassoulet Recipe
3 to 6 hours 6

Mushroom cassoulet recipe Mushroom "Cassoulet" Served with salad and crusty whole-grain bread, this makes a tasty and substantial meal. If you want to impress your guests, add the toasted bread crumbs...

Julia Child's Nicoise Salad
Julia Child's Nicoise Salad

Salade Niçoise Of all main-course salads, the Niçoise is my all-time favorite, with its fresh butter-lettuce foundation; its carefully cooked, beautifully green green beans; its colorful contrast of ha...

10 minutes 6
Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe
Italian Tomato Sauce Recipe

Italian Tomato Sauce This classic tomato sauce and any of its variations may be kept in the refrigerator for up to 4 days or frozen for up to 3 months. Instructions_Step Heat in a large skillet over m...

25 minutes 4-5 cup
Italian Braised Celery Stalks Recipe
Italian Braised Celery Stalks Recipe

Braised Celery Stalks with Onion, Pancetta, and Tomatoes Instructions_Step Cut off the celery's leafy tops, and detach all the stalks from their base. Save the hearts for a salad. Use a swiveling-blade...

25 minutes For 4 to 6 servings
Linguine with Shrimp Sauce Recipe
Linguine with Shrimp Sauce Recipe

Linguine con Gamberetti Linguine with Shrimp Sauce (and Variations) From Make It Italian, by Nancy Verde Barr I especially like this dish with small gulf or Maine shrimp, and if you stumble on either, ...

35 to 37 minutes 4 or 5
Vegan Mock Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe
Vegan Mock Chicken Noodle Soup Recipe

This simple, soothing soup – quite unlike the kind my mom made – nonetheless recalls a comfort soup from my childhood. It proves that winter soups need not always be thick to provide a sense of warmth. ...

30 to 35 minutes 6 servings
Goat Cheese-Stuffed Gypsy Peppers Recipes
Goat Cheese-Stuffed Gypsy Peppers Recipes

Goat Cheese-Stuffed Gypsy Peppers Instructions_Step Cut around the base of each pepper stem and gently pull the stem out. Trim off the seeds and keep the tops to hold the stuffing in. Blanch the pepper...

20 minutes 6
Grannie's Chicken and Dumplings
Grannie's Chicken and Dumplings

Grannie's Chicken and Dumplings The dish is a Cracker favorite for a lot of reasons, economy not the least, as most Cracker homesteads had a flock of chickens pecking around the yard and a cook who cou...

60 minutes 6