Main Ingredient Recipes

Vitello Fiorentina/Veal Florentine Recipe
Vitello Fiorentina/Veal Florentine Recipe

Vitello Fiorentina [Veal Florentine] This veal dish is prepared in the Florentine style. The creamed spinach is also delicious on its own. You can substitute a boneless pork chop, pounded thin, for the...

10 minutes 2
Tuscan Meat Sauce Recipe
Tuscan Meat Sauce Recipe

Tuscan Meat Sauce Instructions_Step Cut the celery, onions, and carrots into chunks and grind them together in a food processor, pulsing just until coarsely chopped. Sauté the vegetable mixture (what I...

2 to 3 hours a crowd
Tomato-Less Lasagna/Lasagne Recipes
Tomato-Less Lasagna/Lasagne Recipes

Lasagne with Spinach & Wild Mushrooms Baked Lasagne with Asparagus and Pesto Poor in Pottersville Vegetable Lasagne Vegetable Lasagne White Lasagne Polenta Lasagne with Spinach, Zucchini, Herbs & Fontin...

40 - 50 minutes 4
Traditional London Broil Recipe
Traditional London Broil Recipe

London Broil Despite what you might find at the local meat market, London broil is not a cut of beef but rather a method of cooking. It was one of the first recipes to become popular in early restauran...

14 to 20 minutes 4
Traditional Salad Nicoise Recipe
Traditional Salad Nicoise Recipe

Salade Niçoise (Niçoise Salad) Instructions_Step Trim the beans, wash them, and boil uncovered in salted water for 20 minutes. Drain and cool. Wash the peppers and cut them in half. Remove the seeds an...

65 minutes 4
Tunisian Couscous Salad Recipe
Tunisian Couscous Salad Recipe

Tunisian Couscous Salad Even though I call this salad Tunisian, the ingredients could put it in several countries of North Africa. The only thing you have to be concerned about in this dish is overcook...

30 minutes 4
Tamal en Cazuela/ Polenta with Pork
Tamal en Cazuela/ Polenta with Pork
2 hours 6 to 8

Tamal en Cazuela (Soft Polenta with Pork) Tamales are a popular snack and party food among Cubans. They are often sold wrapped in the cornhusks in which they are boiled. Tamal en Cazuela is basically t...

Steak Tartare Recipe
Steak Tartare Recipe
35 minutes 4 to 5 as an appetizer

Steak Tartare When you make steak tartare, it's crucial to buy meat from a reputable butcher you know. We recommend beef fillet (tenderloin) for this recipe, and partially freeze it so that it's easier...

Skirt Steak with Garlic and Cilantro
Skirt Steak with Garlic and Cilantro
10 - 16 minutes 6 to 8

Marinated Skirt Steak with Garlic and Cilantro Skirt steak has a deep, beefy flavor that can stand up to bold spices. So I take this inexpensive, easy-to-find cut and hit it with lots of garlic and a l...

Slow-Roasted Aromatic Shoulder of Pork
Slow-Roasted Aromatic Shoulder of Pork
24 hours 12 to 14

Slow-Roasted Aromatic Shoulder of Pork From Nigella Bites (, ), by Nigella Lawson. I first got the idea of cooking a shoulder of pork over 24 hours like this from the second River Café Cookbook; my ta...

Soft Mrs-Fields-Like Cookie Recipe
Soft Mrs-Fields-Like Cookie Recipe

Mrs. Field’s Chocolate Chip Cookies (According to Mr. Wilbur) Instructions_Step Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C). Instructions_Step In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, sugars, eggs and vanilla....

9 minutes 20 to 24
Spaghetti Alla Carbonara Recipe
Spaghetti Alla Carbonara Recipe

Spaghetti Alla Carbonara (Spaghetti with Egg-Pancetta Sauce) This Roman dish is sometimes called "spaghetti with bacon and eggs" on tourist menus. Pancetta, of course, is not bacon, because it is not s...

15 -18 minutes 4
Scotch Eggs Recipe
Scotch Eggs Recipe

Scotch Eggs Following his exploration of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, in 1631, William Claiborne set up a trading post on Kent Island, the largest of the bay's islands. A colony developed and in 1638 the ...

20 minutes 6 whole or 12 halves
Sauce Chateaubriand Recipe
Sauce Chateaubriand Recipe

Sauce Châteaubriand Adapted from The Escoffier Cookbook The veal gravy in the ingredient list can be made by thoroughly mixing 1 tablespoon of corn starch into a quarter cup of cold water, then pouring...

10 - 12 minutes 1/2 cup
Saffron Orzo Recipe from Sheila Lukins
Saffron Orzo Recipe from Sheila Lukins

Saffron Orzo Orzo is such a pleasing "small" pasta – and just right to serve with many foods instead of rice because it is so much lighter. Here I've prepared it in a broth scented with saffron, making...

10 minutes 6 as a side dish
Rustic Winter Stew Recipe
Rustic Winter Stew Recipe

Rustic Winter Stew In the depths of winter, sauerkraut is the best "in season" vegetable going, and pairing it with pork is an Eastern European classic. Even better, in this dish, the richness of sour ...

1 hour 40 minutes 6 as a main course; 10 for tasting
Roasted Onions Recipe
Roasted Onions Recipe

Roasted Onions Instructions_Step In a skillet over medium-high heat, add the olive oil and onions and stir vigorously to avoid scorching. Add the oregano and season with salt and pepper. Continue stirr...

30- 45 minutes 2 cups
Roasted Cod with Apple Butter, etc.
Roasted Cod with Apple Butter, etc.

Roasted Cod with Brussels Sprouts, Carrots, Apple Butter and Cider Vinaigrette By by Chef John Schaefer of Irving Mill, from New York Cooks, by Joan Krellenstein and Barbara Winkler The homespun ambien...

40 minutes 4