Salads make wonderful meals especially during hot weather days. Here’s a recipe for a sassy chicken salad courtesy of Redpack Tomatoes. It brings together tomatoes, grapes, chicken, celery, and toasted pecans to form refreshing meal. Make a chicken salad sandwich or nix the bread and simply serve it over a bed of greens. Sassy Chicken...
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Recipe: Baked Tofu with Spicy Peanut Butter and Goji Berries
March is National Peanut Month! In celebration, Peanut Butter & Co. invites us to explore the versatility of the peanut butter ingredient. They sent over a mystery ingredient and asked us incorporated into a recipe with their peanut butter. What was this mystery ingredient? I received a bag of Nativa Naturals goji berries, along with...
Dublin Lawyer Southern Irish Lobster Stew Recipe
Here’s a recipe for an Irish lobster stew courtesy of Luella’s Southern Kitchen in Chicago. Chef/Owner Darnell Reed’s Southern Irish Lobster and Roasted Mushroom Stew features a lobster stew with Creole seasoned lobster, roasted mushrooms, Carolina Gold rice and whiskey cream. It’s a Dublin Lawyer with a Southern touch. Ingredients: 1 teaspoon canola oil 1...
Shaved Fall Vegetable Salad with Tea-Pickled Radishes Recipe
Here’s another recipe from Gail Simmons. This salad features brings together apples, fennel, radicchio, celery, and pickled radishes. The radishes are pickled with Pure Leaf Sweat Tea. The pickled radishes are prepared ahead of time and can be refrigerated for up to 1 week. Shaved Fall Vegetable Salad with Tea-Pickled Radishes Serves 4 For the...
Recipe: Prairie Grass Cafe Untraditional Shepherd’s Pie
Meat pies make delicious and hearty comfort foods. Shepherd’s pies or cottage pies are made with roasted meat and mashed potato cooked in a pie dish. Technically, a shepherd’s pie is made with mutton and a cottage pie is made with beef, but you’ll often find shepherd’s pie used synonymously with cottage pie regardless of...
Creamy Polenta with Braised Greens and Mushrooms Recipe
Here’s another excerpt from the Green City Market cookbook. The cookbook is filled with seasonal recipes and each recipe comes with a story behind it. Here’s the recipe for Creamy Polenta with Braised Greens and Mushrooms. After we started producing cornmeal at Three Sisters, we discovered the magic of a bowl of slightly sweet Polentapolenta...
Prairie Grass Cafe’s Ramp Crustini Recipe
The ramp, also known as the wild leek, is an early Spring vegetable. It’s flavor is often described as a combination of onions and garlic. Although pretty pungent, ramps can also add a very wonderful flavor to dishes. Chefs Bumbaris and Stegner of Northbrook, IL’s Prairie Grass Cafe, share their recipe for Ramp Crustini with...
Chef Gregg Drusinsky’s Winning Five Spice Crusted Short Rib Recipe
NYC’s own Chef Gregg Drusinsky won the “Daring Parings,” challenge on ABC’s ‘The Taste’ where contestants had to create a dish to pair with Alamos Malbec, a bold Argentinian wine known for its flavorful and food-friendly qualities. Chef Gregg won the challenge with his delicious short rib recipe that paired wonderfully with Alamos Malbec. You...
312 Chicago Recipe: Orecchiette Pasta
Here’s a recipe for Orecchiette Pasta prepared by 312 Chicago executive chef Luca Corrazzina. In the video above, Corrazzina provides step-by-step instructions to make this Italian dish for four at home. Ingredients 1 pound of orecchiette pasta 1 bunch of broccoli rapini 3 oz julienne sun dried tomatoes 1 garlic glove sliced or chopped 6 oz mild Italian...
Recipe: Roasted Alaskan Halibut
Here’s a recipe for Roasted Alaskan Halibut prepared by 312 Chicago executive chef Luca Corrazzina. In the video below, Corrazzina provides step-by-step instructions to make this fish and vegetables plate at home. Ingredients 14 oz Pacific Halibut 1 cup Cauliflower 1/2 cup Heavy Cream 1 oz Chopped Panchetta 1 oz Sliced Red Onion ¼ cup of fresh...