Lunch Recipes

Ferran Adrià's Rotisserie Chicken with Dried Fruits
Ferran Adrià's Rotisserie Chicken with Dried Fruits

Ferran Adrià's Rotisserie Chicken with Dried Fruits (Pollo con Frutos y Frutas Secas) As this recipe demonstrates, Ferran Adrià, the alchemist chef of El Bulli, is as practical as he is inventive. It's...

30 minutes 4
Falling-Off-The-Bone Short Ribs Recipe
Falling-Off-The-Bone Short Ribs Recipe

Falling-Off-The-Bone Short Ribs There aren't many short rib preparations that I haven't enjoyed. This versatile, tasty cut of beef gives us everything you can ask for in beef: You get marbled beef, and...

10 hours 8 to 10 servings
Braised Osso Buco with Gremolata Recipe
Braised Osso Buco with Gremolata Recipe

Braised Osso Buco with Gremolata This osso buco is fairly traditional, but it is such an extremely delicious preparation that in this case, I let the meat and tradition speak for themselves. Serving th...

2 to 2-1/2 hours 6
Beer-Can Chicken Recipe
Beer-Can Chicken Recipe

This Bird's for You Beer-Can Chicken Beer-can chicken has moved from novelty to standard fare for many backyard pitmasters. I first learned about it from the late Hank Lumpkin of Boss Hawg's BBQ in Top...

1-1/2 to 2 hours 4
Veal Marsala Recipe
Veal Marsala Recipe

Veal Scaloppine with Marsala Instructions_Step Carefully thin the scaloppini with a meat pounder, bringing it down flat and sliding it, in one continuous motion, from the center outwards. Repeat the op...

12 to 15 minutes 4
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
2 to 3 hours a crowd

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...

Tomato-Less Lasagna/Lasagne Recipes
Tomato-Less Lasagna/Lasagne Recipes
40 - 50 minutes 4

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...

Traditional London Broil Recipe
Traditional London Broil Recipe
14 to 20 minutes 4

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...

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...

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

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...

24 hours 12 to 14
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 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
Prime Rib Recipe
Prime Rib Recipe

Traditional Roast Rib of Beef with Gravy, Horseradish Sauce, Yorkshire Pudding, and Roast Potatoes Few people can resist a roast rib of beef with horseradish sauce, Yorkshire pudding, lots of gravy, and...

72 -120 minutes 8 to 10