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Category Archive for 'Jacques Pepin'

Truffled Omelet(te) – The Real Breakfast of Champions

Posted in Europe, French, Italian, Jacques Pepin, Jeffrey Steingarten, Recipe, Recipes, butter, crimini, easy, egg, mushroom, mushrooms, quick meal, truffles on May 3rd, 2009

In several of his well-known paeans to Provence, Peter Mayle describes, both lyrically and at great length, his love affair with the black truffles of that region. Sometimes couched as a cloak-and-dagger chase involving bizarre and nervy rendez-vous’ along dimly-lit back roads, or illicit dealings with “men with dirt under their fingernails and yesterday’s garlic [...]

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Jacques Fast Food – Whole Wheat Pasta with Leeks, Asparagus, Mushrooms, Gruyere and a Fried Egg – A Winning Recipe!

Posted in Garlic, Jacques Pepin, Olive Oil, Pasta, Recipe, Recipes, asparagus, butter, cheap meal, cheese, easy, egg, leek, mushroom, quick meal on Nov 29th, 2007

Wow… that title is a bit long, but it’s the best description I could come up with. This meal is absolutely delicious, quick and cheap. It is adapted from our favorite master chef – Jacques Pepin. On his PBS show Fast Food My Way (WATCH IT!!!), Jacques creates seemingly difficult and creative dishes in no [...]

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Sara Moulton Going to PBS in April – Die Food Network, DIE!

Posted in Food Commentary, Food Network, Jacques Pepin, Mario Batali, Mark Bittman, Rachel Ray, Sara Moulton, rant on Nov 16th, 2007

Just found out that another one bites the dust for the oldies (but true goodies) from the Fool Network. Sara Moulton has either been 1) asked to leave the Food Network by not having her contract renewed because she’s not K-RAZY enough, has relatively no cleavage, is actually classically trained and/or doesn’t have a [...]

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Under Pressure – Lamb Shanks in Pressure Cooker

Posted in Garlic, Jacques Pepin, Meat, Recipe, Recipes, braised, dining, easy, eating, healthy, lamb, lower fat, mushroom, mushrooms, onions, pressure-cooker, rosemary, safety, savory, shanks, thyme, water, wine, winter on Sep 18th, 2007

So maligned are pressure-cookers that it seems almost sacrilegious of a food blog like this, that likes to extol the virtues of fresh ingredients and traditional cooking methods, to even consider adding a recipe that calls for using one. Undaunted, here we are flaunting convention and defying the culinary thought-police once more with a recipe [...]

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