Homemade French Onion Dip
Home-made French Onion Dip is well worth the effort. It is delicious and will work with home-made potato chips, vegetable sticks, baguette, or other chips.
Although this web site and it’s attached blogs are about wrapping food for the home cook, this blog will provide some of my favorite unwrapped recipes, as well as tips, tricks and product recommendations.
Roasted Garlic Dip Recipe
I love a good garlic dip, frankly I love all things garlic! This dip works well with potato chips, pretzels, baguettes and just about any other type of chip or crackers. You can use sliced vegetables as well. It is unfortunate that so many grocery stores sell poor garlic, small heads with small cloves that…
Sauerkraut Recipe
The making of sauerkraut is simplicity itself. It requires very clean conditions, but only a few ingredients. I love sauerkraut on sandwiches (with corn beef and swiss cheese), in a salad, with sausages, and just by itself. Believe it or not, I will have this as a nighttime snack. I have tried this with a…
What the Average Home Cook Really Needs to be Successful
Being a chef is, in a broad sense, is a profession, requiring years of practice and hours of dedicated work. This can be summed up in the concept of “apprenticeship”. In my life I have been a musician, goldsmith, now a physician, all of which required an “apprenticeship” and a continued desire to learn the “trade” or “profession”. To understand the dedication required to become this type of professional, I suggest you read Jacque Pepin’s book, “The Apprentice”.
Favorite Ingredients: Banana Leaves
The Banana plant is a flowering herbaceous plant. It has a central stalk and blades (leaves) on all sides. These leaves can grow to a size of 6 ½ feet (2 meters). Banana leaves are used throughout Asia to wrap food. They do lend a subtle flavor to the food and a “vibrant” color. They are inexpensive, can usually be found in oriental food stores, or on line.