This delicious soup comes to us from Rao’s Cookbook. Rao’s is the legendary Italian restaurant in East Harlem New York. For more than 100 years they have been serving truly home style cooking in the tiny corner establishment. It’s history is long and varied, colorfully reviewed in this wonderful book. Rao’s is all but impossible to get…
This essential sauce is adapted from Joseph Wrede, head chef at Joseph’s of Santa Fe. In it we use dried red chiles that we’ll rehydrate and combine with onions, garlic, cumin and coriander for an authentic Red Chile Sauce. In his recipe Chef Joseph uses New Mexico chiles, no doubt. I used Guajillo with a couple of Chipotles…
Terry’s Treats newest cookie is the Chocolate Coconut Snowball. It is a fudgy chocolate bomb covered with a blanket of snowy organic coconut. Like an inside-out Mounds bar. It gets rave reviews at all our tastings, so we now bring it to you. She is also working on several new varieties, look for them in…
We work tirelessly at Terry’s Treats to bring you the best ultra-premium cookies for the most discriminating palate. Here are a couple of new varieties that are getting rave reviews from everyone. We have some other unique flavors currently in development, stay tuned. Like all of Terry’s cookies, these are gluten-free, dairy-free, and contain no artificial…
Go to any good Mexican restaurant or taqueria and you’ll likely find Chile Verde (Green Chile) on the menu. Chile Verde is typically made with pork shoulder slow-simmered in a sauce of fresh green chiles and tomatillos. (By the way, for our non Spanish speaking readers, ‘tomatillo’ is pronounced ‘toe-ma-TEE-yo’.) It makes a fabulous filling for burritos,…
Onions and eggs. What a fabulous combination. This recipe is more about the technique, I mean, onions, eggs and butter. What’s the big deal? Well, the secret is in the cooking of the onions. In recipe after recipe you will see directions that read something like this: “Sauté onions 5-10 minutes until they carmelize.” Baloney.…
These are those delicious pickled jalepeños and carrots you get at many good Mexican restaurants. Jalepeños vary in spiciness from very mild to pretty darn hot. It is difficult to tell just by looking at them, but if you want to know what you are getting yourself in for, slice a tiny bit off the…
What to do with left-over chicken. One of the eternal questions. Perhaps the simplest is to make chicken salad. This is a lovely entrée salad that dresses up that left-over chicken whether roasted, barbecued or boiled. The preparation is so simple, we don’t really need any photos. Just mix the ingredients and spoon over…
Hummus. (Pronounced Who-moose. Not Hum-miss.) It’s the new everything. Well, not exactly new. The first recorded recipes for hummus bi tahina come from 13th century Cairo cookbooks. The basic ingredients have been eaten in the Mediterranean Middle East for millennia. It is experiencing a surge of popularity here in the US, and is a…
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