> > > Not too long ago, one esteemed member of our happy ChefsOpinion family mentioned that I prepare shrimp too often. While I understand that not everyone loves shrimp as much as I do (many folks do, though), 99.9 % of my posts show what Bella and I actually prepare and eat at home […]
> > > Attention !!! Bib and lot’s of paper towels required 🙂 > Bon Appétit ! Life is Good ! > > Click here for more Shrimp on ChefsOpinion > > > > > > > > Preparation : To read instructions, hover over pictures To enlarge pictures and read instructions, click on pictures > […]
> > > While grilled shrimp is a dish that is well known to most of us, pasta cooked in red wine is probably less known/experienced by most folks, even those who are fans of pasta in all shapes and tastes 🙂 I for one have cooked pasta in red wine a few times, many […]
> > > Comfort Food ! 🙂 We usually associate this moniker with hearty, deft, heavy home-cooking, and rightfully so, because that’s what’s comes to mind most often – long-simmering meat stews, vegetable-studded chicken soup, pasta with rich sauces, hearty sausages, crusty bread, long basted poultry, slowly roasted mountains of beef, pork, lamb, game, etc, […]
> Stock-braised or cream-braised leek are traditional recipes which, in my opinion, deserve to be revived to show up more often on our dining tables. 🙂 They can be simple comfort food, as well as elegant, scrumptious side dishes which are ideal to be served with most grilled or sautéed proteins. In this featured dish, I […]
> After a recent bout of gluttony during my month in Europe, I have to lose at least the 15 lbs I gained, and if I continue on my present path of eating and drinking sensibly, maybe even shedding at least 20 lbs in the first month, and another 15 during the second month. So […]
> Today, I like to share a dish with you that I have prepared in its basic version hundreds of times over the years. It is a “a la minute” dish, so it requires no prolonged cooking and can be prepared on short notice (a la minute) and in just a few minutes of […]
> > > > > Summer has hit our little part of paradise, Florida, over the head with a vengeance. While the first three weeks of official summer were pure liquid sunshine, with all the flooding and whatever else goes with torrential rain, now the real sunshine has finally arrived. Alas, as usual, we all […]
> This is one of these dishes which, at least in my humble opinion, actually benefits from the usage of smaller shrimp, compared to the larger shrimp we usually prefer for a great dish. While you can make a perfectly wonderful fried rice with large shrimp, the smaller ones can be used in abundance for […]
> > Preparing your own ravioli might be a bit work-intensive, but if one put’s a little effort and love to the process, it’s well worth the trouble. The actual prep is not so bad, what takes the most time is the clean-up (at least for me, since my counter space is tiny and the flour usually […]
