Al Lago Wines - Recipes

Absolutely Amazing Asparagus and Prosciutto Appetizer

This is a simple Italian appetizer that everyone will love.

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Ahi Tuna Steaks (Pan Seared) in a Sesame Crust with Avocado Relish

This dish is delicious and very quick to make. We enjoy it with Green Beans with Chinese Sausage and XO Sauce, and a Zippy, Spicy Ginger Salad Dressing and Chinese Salad – both of which recipes you can access by clicking on those titles.

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Apple Walnut Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Nothing says comfort food like cinnamon, apples, and a cream-cheese frosting. This is an amazingly flavorful cake that has been a part of our “repertoire” for more than 20 years. It is especially wonderful since we grow the Granny Smith apples on our property! We enjoy this cake with homemade, Mincemeat made in the Traditional English Fashion, which you can access by clicking on that recipe title.

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Asparagus Soup / Crème d'Asperges

This classic, French soup is simple and easy to make ahead of dinner and just warm it again before you serve it. It is an outstanding choice for entertaining when asparagus is in season, and one of our favorites from another vegetable in our garden.

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Asparagus Spears and Pine-Nuts

This is a wonderful preparation of asparagus.

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Asparagus Spears Blanched

We enjoy blanched Asparagus for its great flavor and deep green color on our plate.

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Atlantic Salmon Fillet Poached

We love a variety of types of Salmon, but one our favorite preparations of Atlantic Salmon is this poached Salmon dish.

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Avocado Soup...a cold soup

We grow avocados, and love avocados! This is one of our favorite soups for the warmer days of Spring and Summer.

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Avocado, Cilantro and Lime Dressing with Mexican-style Salad

This dressing and its salad is an integral component of a wonderful Mexican-style meal in our home.

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Bacon Dressing on a Salad of Wilted Escarole, Grilled Shrimp, Grapefruit, Avocado and Bacon

This salad of wilted escarole, grilled shrimp, grapefruit, avocado and bacon is just perfect with its bacon dressing as either an appetizer or a main course.

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Bacon Salad Dressing for Spinach, Bacon, Red Onion and Gorgonzola Salad

A fantastic spinach salad with all the trimmings and a warm bacon dressing to compliment a great meal.

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Bacon, Cooked in the Oven

For a slightly more healthy version of bacon, try this idea!

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Baked Brie en Croute with Pesto and Roasted Pine Nuts

A family favorite that's an original twist on a well-known appetizer…great served with garlic and herb-flavored Pita Chips.

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Banana Bread

For many of the recipes on our website, we grow all the fruits and vegetables. For this recipe, we grow the bananas at our home. Over several attempts, we have refined this recipe to produce the best banana bread we have tried, so that we can share it with you.

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Basmati Rice with Indian Flavors

We enjoy this flavorful rice with a few of our favorite Indian recipes including Chicken Tikka Masala, Tomato Chutney, Black Lentils’ Dal, and Garlic Naan Bread – each of which you can access easily by clicking on these recipe titles.

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Béchamel Sauce

Béchamel Sauce is a sauce traditionally made from a white roux (butter and flour in a 1:1 mixture) and milk with a long history of use in multiple countries, it may also be referred to as besciamella in Italy, or besamel in Greece, or a white sauce in the U.S.A Regardless of the style of cuisine, a Béchamel Sauce is a very versatile white sauce that's used in many different dishes. It is terrific in lasagna dishes -- such as the Zucchini and Eggplant Lasagna (and you can easily access that recipe by clicking on those recipe title)-- because it provides a rich, creamy flavor. It is also terrific in creamy pasta dishes, such as our Creamy Baked Pasta and Cheese / Pasta E Formaggio al Forno (and you can easily access that recipe by clicking on those recipe title).

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Beef Bulgogi, Korean-style

This is a wonderful preparation of this classic, Korean, beef dish that’s packed with flavor.

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Beef Short Ribs

Beef short ribs are one of our favorites, and this is our favorite recipe for them, because they are cooked slowly to retain the moisture and flavor.

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Bittersweet Chocolate Cake

This is a very dense and intense bittersweet chocolate cake that we have enjoyed for more that 20 years. When Blair and Simone met, in February 2000, this was the first cake that Simone made for Blair. It was near Valentine’s Day, so she made it in the shape of a heart. To this day whenever we make this cake, we still use the same heart shaped pan to remind us of our very first homemade meal together. We hope you enjoy this delicious cake. We enjoy it with a bit of homemade whipped cream and fresh fruit (blueberries or raspberries) in a little bit of Grand Marnier liqueur. These are optional but we highly encourage you to top the cake with a bit of Pomegranate and Balsamic Reduction sauce (and you can easily access that recipe by clicking on that recipe title).

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Black Lentils' Dal (Makhni Dal)

This black lentil dish is easy to make in the slow cooker and it is absolutely delicious!

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Bread Pudding with Cranberries and Brandy Caramel Sauce

This is one of our favorites for the holidays -- the best bread pudding recipe you'll find!

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Bread with an Italian Flair / Pane Italiano

There is nothing better than home-made, Italian-style bread and this recipe is one of our favorites!

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Broccolini Curry

We really enjoy a wide spectrum of Indian flavors. This dish is a fantastic vegetable side dish to pair with any of your Indian main courses. As with many of the dishes we create, this vegetable dish highlights Indian flavors, using an Americanized style. We enjoy this with our Indian Butter Chicken In A Slow Cooker, or Chicken Tikka Masala, and you can access either of these recipes by clicking on those recipe titles. We also enjoy it with our Basmati Rice with Indian Flavors, our Garlic Naan Bread, and one of our dals – Black Lentils' Dal or Chana Dal – and once again, you can access all of these recipes by clicking on their titles.

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Broccolini with Garlic Chips in a Lemon Butter Sauce

Broccolini is such a great vegetable, and here's a recipe with a fantastic twist....garlic chips!

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Bruschetta

This is a classic appetizer with a real hearty tomato flavor to it.

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Brussels Sprouts

A hearty preparation of Brussels Sprouts…packed with flavor…for the unbeliever…

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Butternut Squash and Crab Bisque

We enjoy soup and this bisque is absolutely delicious! This can be served as an appetizer, with a salad, or sometimes we enjoy it as our meal with some warm, homemade Sourdough Bread (and you can access that recipe easily by clicking on that recipe title).

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Cabbage Salad

A classic Cabbage Salad that's very rich…

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Caesar's Salad

A great salad to start any meal -- particularly an Italian meal!

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Caesar's Salad Dressing

A great salad dressing for a great, authentic Caesar's Salad.

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Candied Lime Peels / Citrus Peels

This is a terrific accompaniment with a nice sorbet. We enjoy the very fresh/tart flavor of our Lemon and Lime Sorbet (and you can access that recipe easily by clicking on that recipe title) and then we place a piece of this Candied Lime Peel on the side to provide a wonderful “pop” to the flavor of the sorbet. This can be made with any citrus fruit.

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Cantaloupe and Mint Sorbet

This is a delightful “palate cleanser” or a fresh dessert.

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Caprese Salad with a Flair / Insalata Caprese

One of the most delicious dishes found in all of Italian cuisine is Caprese salad or the Insalata Caprese. This dish marries some of the most notable ingredients in Italian cuisine including tomatoes, olive oil, fresh burrata cheese, and fresh basil. The dish has been popular for many decades. The first story of Caprese salad dates to post-World War I Italy. A patriotic chef wanted to make a dish that was a true tribute to Italy and that visually incorporated the tricolor of the Italian flag into the presentation. The first printed mention of the Caprese salad was on a menu at the Grand Hotel Quisisana in Capri. We grow our own heirloom tomatoes and basil, and when they are ripe and in season, there is nothing better than this wonderful salad!

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Carnitas

We love carnitas! Who doesn't love carnitas on nachos, tacos, and salads?! If you agree, you'll love this recipe!

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Catalina Dressing with an Asian-Fusion Flair on Tuna Poke and Cabbage Salad

This amazing salad is a family favorite with glass of Diva Rosé.

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Cauliflower Gnocchi with Italian Red Meat Sauce

This is a wonderful, quick and delicious side dish if you love gnocchi as much as we do!

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Chana Dal

We love fine Indian cuisine prepared in the style that you might find in Delhi. As a result, we love to enjoy papadum and garlic naan bread with chutney and different dals at the outset of a great Indian dinner. This is one of the different dals that we like to make for our table, and we're sure you'll enjoy it as well!

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Chicken Al Lago in a Slow-Cooker

This is a wonderful Chicken dish with great flavor -- a real family favorite of ours.

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Chicken Tikka Masala

The origins of this dish are debated. Some think it is a dish that was originated in Scotland, some think it was originated in India. In any event, my husband lived for ten years in London, where he was introduced to Chicken Tikka Masala and he has loved it ever since. I love the flavor infused into the chicken from the buttermilk in this recipe.

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Chicken Tortilla Soup

We enjoy this delicious with soup with our homemade Guacamole and our Avocado, Cilantro and Lime Dressing with Mexican-style Salad (and you can access each of these recipes by clicking on each of those titles).

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Chinese Cabbage Salad with Duck and Plum Vinaigrette

We enjoy preparing Duck Roasted in a Chinese Style with Plum Sauce periodically, which you can access by clicking that title. When we do that, we generally have a little bit of the roasted duck left over and this is one of the wonderful dishes that we enjoy preparing with the left-over roasted duck.

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Chinese Lo Mein Noodles with Duck and Plum Sauce

We enjoy the recipe for Duck Roasted in a Chinese Style with Plum Sauce (and you can easily access that recipe by clicking on that title). When we roast the White Pekin / Long-Island Duck, we enjoy this recipe as another way to enjoy the left-over duck.

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Chinese Noodles with Scallops and XO Sauce

This is a truly amazing dish of Chinese noodles, scallops and the amazing XO Sauce. We love it, and we think you will as well!

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Chocolate Nougat Italian Dessert

This is a "sure hit" dessert…one of our favorites…

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Cod Fillets in Lemon and Garlic

The lemon and garlic topping on these fillets of cod make this one of our family favorites.

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Compound Butter with Blue Cheese, Garlic and Chives

This compound butter is easy to make and it can be added to steamed vegetables, potatoes, or one of our favorites is to add it to Filet Mignon wrapped in Bacon.

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Compound Butter with Lemon, Garlic, and Chives

This is a wonderful compound butter that can be used on fish, vegetables, pastas, or it is even good when it is spread on freshly made sourdough bread.

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Creamy Baked Pasta and Cheese / Pasta e Formaggio al Forno

This is an amazing dish that is absolutely creamy and delicious! It is a great side dish because it pairs nicely with so many main courses, such as our Pot Roast with Mushrooms with Gravy (and you can access that recipe easily by clicking on that recipe title), or any of our veal dishes. It is even a great side for a fish dish.

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Dijon Mustard and Pink Grapefruit Vinaigrette on a Spinach, Kale and Pink Grapefruit Salad with Salmon

When coupled with a piece of Salmon, this is an amazing entrée course salad. Or, it can be used as a side salad. We are so blessed to grow so many different types of fruits and vegetables at our home in the Santa Rosa Valley. This salad has some added meaning to us because we have included a number of items in it from our garden: the pink grapefruit, the garlic cloves, the kale, the avocado, and the red onion.

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Duck Roasted in a Chinese Style with Plum Sauce

We love roasted White Pekin Duck, and we particularly enjoy it with these Chinese spices. It’s sure to be a huge hit on your dining table as well!

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Dumpling Soup
This is an easy and delicious soup made with Chinese dumplings or potstickers. The broth of the soup definitely has a Chinese flair and would pair well with several of our salads – such as the Zippy, Spicy Ginger Salad Dressing and Chinese Salad -- or any of our Lo Mein dishes like:
- Chinese Lo Mein Noodles with Duck and Plum Sauce, or
- Chinese Noodles with Scallops and XO Sauce.
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Eggplant Parmigiana / Parmigiana di Melanzane

Eggplant Parmigiana, Parmigiana di Melanzane in Italian, is one of the classic preparations of southern Italy. It is a preparation associated with the cooking of Naples, but it is popular in the Campanian countryside and Calabria and Sicily too. There are several theories about the origin of Eggplant Parmigiana. The most obvious is that the name of the dish derives from parmigiano cheese, the predominate cheese used in the dish. Many have voiced suspicion for this explanation because parmigiano is not native to Naples or other regions of southern Italy where Eggplant Parmigiana is found. Instead, most of us believe that the name of the dish became altered when the Sicilian word “parmiciana” (dialect for “shingle”) was changed to “parmigiana”, in reference to the famous cheese from Parma that is used in this dish. “Parmicana” referred to the way the fried slices of eggplant are arranged in the baking dish–overlapping in the same way shingles are arranged on a rooftop. Whatever the history of the dish and its distinctive name, it’s one of our favorites from the eggplant we grow in our garden. We know you will love it!

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Eggplant Soup with Spicy Italian Sausage

We grow eggplant on our property, and we really enjoy this recipe of eggplant soup with spicy Italian sausage. It is terrific either as an appetizer or it is wonderful with a few slices of warm, homemade Bread with an Italian Flair / Pane Italiano and Roasted Elephant Garlic Spread with Olive Oil and Herbs (and you can access both of these recipes easily by clicking on those recipe titles).

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Endive with Sundried Tomato Sauce and Blue Cheese

An appetizer that's one of our family's favorites.

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil Dressing for Grilled Vegetable Salad

This is a fantastic antipasti plate for the start of a great Italian meal with your friends and family! Easy to make and healthy!

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Extra Virgin Olive Oil Dressing for Marinated Vegetables

This is a wonderful, fresh, vegetable salad that can also be served as an antipasto salad at the beginning of a great Italian meal!

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Fig, Blue Cheese, and Red Onion Pizza

We have a Black Mission Fig tree in our orchard. When the figs are ripe, we love to make this amazing fig pizza.

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Filet Mignon Steaks Wrapped with Bacon and Topped with Compound Butter

These are simply the finest filet mignon steaks that you will try!

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Fish Soup

As the story goes, fish soup was developed in the late 1800s by Italian immigrants who fished off Meiggs Wharf and lived in the North Beach neighborhood of San Francisco; many of them were from the port city of Genoa, Italy. When a fisherman came back empty handed, they would walk around with a pot to the other fishermen asking them to chip in whatever they could. Whatever ended up in the pot became their fish soup. The fishermen that chipped in expected the same treatment if they came back empty handed in the future. This is a wonderful example of a fine fish soup that is sure to impress your guests!

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French Dressing with a Frisée Salad

This tangy dressing is wonderful for all different types of green salads. It is especially tasty with the different flavors included in this salad with frisée. Because of its naturally somewhat bolder flavor, frisée needs a tangier dressing – like this French Dressing -- when it comes to putting together a salad.

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Fresh Fig Appetizer

We are so blessed to grow many different fruits and vegetables at our home in addition to our wine grapes. This recipe is a remarkably simple but delicious recipe that we make as an appetizer when our Black Mission Figs are ripe.

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Fruit Salad

This fruits salad is great for a brunch with a quiche. We like to serve it with a little lemon curd.

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Garlic Naan Bread

We enjoy Indian cuisine, and this is a favorite recipe to pair with Indian dishes. This recipe will yield about 20 individual pieces of Garlic Naan Bread. We enjoy making the full recipe and then freezing some of the Garlic Naan Bread for future use. We put the topping on the bread just before we serve it.

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Gnocchi (Ricotta with Black Truffles)

This is one of our family's favorite recipes -- originally from the north of Italy.

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Golden Fall Harvest Soup

This is a delicious fall soup, which includes wonderful vegetables from our garden. It would be a great soup to have as an appetizer for your Thanksgiving meal! This recipe makes a large stockpot full of soup. We usually freeze half of the soup and enjoy the other half when we make it.

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Grapefruit and Plum Fruit Salad

We are so fortunate to grow wonderful pink grapefruit, plums, and many other amazing fruits. This morning, I went out into our garden and picked 2 wonderfully ripe, pink grapefruit as well as two beautiful plums. I then created a simple recipe that we will certainly make again and again. It is delicious!

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Green Beans with a Korean Flair

We love Korean food, and this is a great vegetable, side dish to add to your Korean meal!

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Green Beans with Chinese Sausage and XO Sauce

This is a wonderful side dish to several Chinese dishes, and it includes the delicious XO Sauce, which you can access by clicking that title. We grow many of the vegetables that we eat, and in this instance, we have grown the green beans, garlic and onion.

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Green Beans with Italian Sausage

This is a great "twist" on green beans that you'll love.

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Green Beans with Pancetta and Compound Butter with Blue Cheese, Garlic and Chives

Among the vegetables that we grow in our garden, we love green beans, and this is one of our favorite recipes with fresh green beans!

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Green Goddess Salad Dressing and Potato Salad

This is one of our family favorites because it offers a "new spin" on the traditional potato salad.

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Grilled Swordfish Steak with Lemon and Dill Mayonnaise

This is one of our family's favorite preparations of Swordfish Steak. We have found that the milder taste of this seafood steak makes it a particularly good choice for pairing it with a great wine!

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Guacamole

We are truly fortunate to have more than 100 avocado trees on our property. When the summer comes, we love to make guacamole and we enjoy this recipe along with freshly made tortilla chips.

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Halibut Fillets with Cannellini Beans and Castelvetrano Olives

This is an amazing, quick and very delicious meal with a Tuscan flair to it. It is one of our all-time favorites!

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Ham and White Bean Soup

Whenever a ham is baked at our home, I enjoy making a ham soup. This variation on Ham and White Bean Soup includes many vegetables fresh from our garden including tomatillos, celery, carrots, shallots, collard greens and tomatoes. We enjoy this soup along with a slice of our warm bread -- either our Sourdough Bread or our Bread with an Italian Flair / Pane Italiano – and you can access either of these recipes easily by clicking on those recipe titles.

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Horseradish and Green Onion Sauce

This sauce is great with roasted potatoes, prime rib or even on baked potatoes.

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Horseradish Salad Dressing served on a Salad of Bresaola and Arugula

This salad dressing is wonderful for a hearty steak salad, however here we are using it on a tasty arugula salad served with Bresaola (Italian cured, arid dried beef).

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Indian Butter Chicken in a Slow Cooker

We love using our slow cooker! It makes dinner so easy! This recipe is so simple and delicious, and it takes only a few minutes to prepare and then the slow cooker does all of the work. We enjoy this dish with several of the recipes included on our website such as: Garlic Naan Bread, Basmati Rice with Indian Flavors, either of the two dals that we have included on our website – Chana Dal or Black Lentils' Dal (Makhni Dal), and the Tomato Chutney (and you can access each of these recipes easily by clicking on their respective title).

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Italian Red Meat Sauce

This is a wonderful Italian meat sauce that can be used with various pasta dishes like Cauliflower Gnocchi (which you can access easily here by clicking on the recipe title), lasagna, or Eggplant Parmigiana (which you can access easily here by clicking on the recipe title), or even on Pork Chops with Italian Red Meat Sauce (which you can access easily here by clicking on the recipe title). We love it!

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Italian Salad

This is simply one of the most flavorful salads you will try.

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Italian Salad Dressing with Pasta Salad

We have enjoyed serving this recipe when we have had wine tastings at our home and it has always been a "hit"!

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Italian Sausage, Tortellini and Zucchini Soup
We enjoy this delicious and filling soup on a cold, winter’s night. It is terrific to pair this soup with some warm, homemade bread such as:
- Bread with an Italian Flair / Pane Italiano, or
- Sourdough Bread.
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Italian Tomato Sauce

A versatile red sauce for pasta or pizza.

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Jamaican Jerk Chicken

If you love authenic Jamaican Jerk Sauce, this recipe for Jerk Chicken will be a "hit" in your home!

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Jamaican Jerk Dressing on a Jamaican Jerk Chicken Salad

This is a terrific salad that features all of the wonderful flavors we associate with our visit to Jamaica.

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Jamaican Jerk Sauce

This is my favorite Jamaican Jerk Sauce, which reminds me of our trip to Negril, Jamaica where I had the privilege of working with a wonderful Jamaican executive chef to learn about Jamaican cuisine.

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Jamaican Jerk Seasoning/Marinade

This is terrific and very pungent marinade for jerk chicken, pork, or beef!

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Jerk Red Snapper Fillets with Sautéed Kale, Spinach and Grilled Fruit

We had an amazing vacation in Jamaica a few years ago. As a result, we really enjoy Jamaican cuisine and flavors. Whenever I cook with a Jamaican flare, it always brings us back to the memories of our great vacation. I was fortunate to have a one-on-one, hands-on cooking class with the Executive Chef at the resort where we were staying, and he gave me some great insight into Jamaican flavors. Similar to other international foods, I enjoy creating a fusion version of Jamaican cuisine and that is what I have done with this dish below.

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Kale and Collard Green Chips

We grow kale and collard greens along with many other vegetables but this is one of our favorite quick snacks.

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Kimchi Salad Dressing with Napa Cabbage Salad

Korean cuisine is one of our favorites, and this is one of our favorite Koren salads with a distinctive salad dressing.

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Korean Cucumber Salad

This is a nice side dish, appetizer or salad to enjoy with other Korean recipes such as Beef Bulgogi, Korean-Style, or Tuna / Ahi Tuna with a Korean Flair, or the flavors of real Korean Kimchi – each of these recipes you can access easily by clicking on the recipe titles.

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Korean Kimchi

We enjoy food from around the world. This recipe in particular is a delicious Korean side dish that has a wonderful flavor!

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Korean-Style BBQ Pork Chops

We really enjoy Korean food! This is a terrific recipe for Korean style pork chops. It is delicious with Green Beans with a Korean Flair, or Korean Cucumber Salad, or the flavors of real Korean Kimchi, and each of these recipes you can access easily by clicking on the recipe titles.

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Lemon & Blueberry Buckle with Lemon Curd and Crème Fraiche

This is a wonderful dessert that's sure to please…

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Lemon and Lime Sorbet

This is a wonderful, very refreshing palate cleanser that we serve when we have guests over and we are serving multi-course meals. As with many of our fruits and vegetables, we grow lemons and limes here on our property, so it is nice when we have ripe lemons and limes in the orchard to make this very refreshing sorbet. We enjoy serving this with Candied Lime Peels / Citrus Peels (and you can access that recipe easily by clicking on that recipe title).

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Lemon Basil Sauce

This sauce is delicious on vegetables, seafood, and also on quiche. We drizzle it over the Quiche with Seafood (and you can easily access that recipe by clicking on that title) and it is a perfect pairing.

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Lemon Curd

This is a terrific Scottish Lemon Curd recipe…

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Lemon Curd Crème Fraiche

This is a wonderful Crème Fraiche recipe -- one of my favorites for a dessert…

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Lemon Preserves in Salt

We have a wonderful Meyer lemon tree that provides us with a bounty of lemons each year, so I started making lemon preserves. Now, I use these lemon preserves in many of our recipes.

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Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing with Arugula Salad

This is a wonderful salad that we often enjoy with a great steak dinner!

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Linguine with Clams

This dish is quite easy to make and is absolutely delicious!

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Lo Mein Noodles with Vegetables

This is a delicious Cantonese side dish for any Chinese meal, and one of our favorites because we grow most of the vegetables in it in our home garden. Similar to the egg noodle that is commonly used in this noodle, this recipe uses an organic version of “lo mein” noodle made from wheat flour, which translates to "stirred noodles". We particularly enjoy it with one of our favorite Chinese main courses -- Orange Chicken -- and you can access that recipe easily by clicking on that recipe title.

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Lobster Risotto

If you like lobster, this is an amazing risotto from the north of Italy.

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Mahi-mahi with Compound Butter of Lemon, Garlic, and Parmesan Cheese

Mahi-mahi is a firm-fleshed, mild-tasting fish. We genuinely enjoy mahi-mahi when it is fresh. I did not want to fire up the grill, so in this instance I decided to cook the mahi-mahi in the oven. It turned out fantastic! The fish was moist and perfectly cooked.

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Mango Chutney

We love all of the aromatic spices that are found in Indian cuisine. This chutney is a fantastic condiment for an Indian meal.

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Mashed Potatoes – The Most Fabulous Ever

These are the mashed potatoes that we make for Christmas with a wonderful rib roast and for Thanksgiving with our turkey. It has become one of the family favorites!

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Mediterranean Dressing and Salad with a Seafood Medley

This must be one of our all-time favorite, Mediterranean salads and dressing recipes. We really enjoy it with the seafood medley added to it.

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Mincemeat made in the Traditional English Fashion

We love mincemeat made it in the traditional English fashion, especially around the holidays. We have served mincemeat alongside our Apple Walnut Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting (which you can access easily by clicking on that recipe title). We are very blessed because we grow many fruits on our property, and we enjoy them in this recipe!

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Moussaka

We grow many vegetables on our property and one of those vegetables is eggplant. We enjoy including our eggplant in this delicious Greek dish. We think of this as a Greek Lasagna with eggplant.

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Mushroom Ravioli

We really enjoy homemade pasta! This is a delicious, and incredibly special recipe that highlights mushrooms. It is an amazing pasta to serve along side many different main courses, or as an appetizer.

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Mushrooms stuffed with Spinach, Kale, and Cheeses

This is a great preparation of stuffed portobello mushroom caps that your family will love.

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Mustard-Mayonnaise Sauce

A classic, versatile sauce that goes well on fish, sandwiches or hot dogs. It will last in the fridge for about a month.

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Neapolitan Dressing with a Pasta Salad

We love a great Italian salad, and this is one of our favorite pasta salads, which we're sure you'll enjoy too!

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New York Steak basted with Garlic Butter

This is a delicious, easy, and quick preparation that delivers a memorable steak for dinner!

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Niçoise Sauce

We love poached, fresh Atlantic Salmon – particularly during the summer months – and we love to use this Niçoise Sauce on that salmon dish. If you would like to review our favorite, Atlantic Salmon Fillet Poached recipe, just click here.

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Olive Tapenade

This is a great recipe for Olive Tapenade that you're sure to enjoy.

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Onion Salad Dressing with a BLTA Salad

We grow many of our vegetables and this year we have a wonderful crop of red onions. They are sweet and mild, and they are great in this salad and salad dressing.

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Orange Chicken

We absolutely love orange chicken and this is a wonderful version that you can make and enjoy at home.

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Osso Buco (Veal Shank)

An Italian classic that's one of our family's favorites…

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Paella Mixta with Seafood, Ham, and Chorizo

We love seafood and we fell in love with paella years ago. Paella is one of the best-known dishes in Spanish cuisine. Paella takes its name from the wide, shallow traditional pan used to cook the dish on an open fire. Paella means "frying pan" in Valencian – the regional language of Valencia, Spain. Paella Mixta (mixed paella) combines meat with seafood and vegetables (and sometimes beans) with the traditional rice. We enjoy this paella which has loads of seafood!

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Pasta Al Lago

One of our favorite Italian pasta dishes…from our family in Milano

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Pasta alla Norma…with a Few Twists

This is a wonderful pasta dish from the Sicilian region of Italy, but there is a unique spin on it in this recipe. If you want to make it the “traditional” way, I have added a few notes in this recipe to guide you. The name of the dish is said to originate from the exclamation by the Italian writer, Nino Martoglio, who, upon tasting the original dish, exclaimed "This is a real 'Norma'!", comparing it with the exceptional perfection of the Vincenzo Bellini opera of that name – “Norma”. We absolutely love this pasta dish because it features eggplant, which is one of the wonderful vegetables that we grow in our home garden.

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Pasta Dough

We really love pasta, especially when it is homemade! This recipe can be used to make many different shapes of pasta, and the pasta can be used with many different sauces. The options are unlimited!

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Pasta with Pesto Sauce and Sautéed Salami

My father was born in Italy and he loved pesto sauce. From a very early age, I remember loving this very colorful, flavorful sauce on pasta. I have found so many other uses for this great sauce, including on top of fish (for our Salmon with Pesto recipe, please click here), on sandwiches, etc. This pasta recipe combines the wonderful flavor of pesto with a flavorful salami and garlic to create a great dish.

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Peach and Blueberry Cobbler

For the Autumn or Winter….this is a great dessert.

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Peach and Blueberry Crisp with Almond and Lemon Topping

This is a really outstanding Peach and Blueberry dessert, which I'm sure you'll love. We serve it with a little ice cream, and it's wonderful.

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Peanut Salad Dressing and Green Salad with a Thai Flair

This is a terrific salad with a wonderful Thai flair to it from the peanut salad dressing!

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Pesto Sauce

A family favorite that's hard to beat with pasta, seafood, or wherever you want to add Pesto sauce…in fact, try freezing it in plastic ice cube trays to enjoy year-round!

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Pickled Jalapenos, Asian-influenced

With an Asian-incluence, these Jalapenos are terrific to use on salads, and a variety of meals.

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Pickled Radishes

This year we planted radishes and ended up with abundance, so beyond eating them fresh and raw (which was delicious), I decided to create a recipe for pickling them. After a bit of experimentation, we came up with this terrific recipe.

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Pickled Red Onions

These pickled red onions are delicious on top of salads or along side many dishes. We enjoy making them spicy, but you do not need to add the red pepper flakes if you prefer not to add the spice.

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Pizza with Arugula Topping

A "sure hit" appetizer that will please the dinner guests.

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Plum and Blueberry Upside-down Tart

This is a great summer dessert recipe that's easy to make -- a twist on a traditional tarte tatin.

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Plum Dessert

This is a GREAT dessert for a summer evening.

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Plum Sauce for a Chinese-style, Roasted Duck

This is our favorite plum sauce when we make a Chinese-style roasted duck, and we're certain you'll love the wonderful flavor of it as well.

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Pomegranate and Balsamic Reduction

We grow pomegranates and really enjoy the benefits of the pomegranate juice in many different recipes. This recipe is one that we particularly enjoy because it is so versatile; it can be used on top of desserts, ice cream or even over pork or lamb.

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Pork Chops Al Lago

An entrée that everyone will remember.

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Pork Chops with Italian Red Meat Sauce

These are simply wonderful Pork Center-Cut Chops that are prepared in an Italian style!

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Pork Chops with Lemon and Garlic

This is one of our family's favorite pork chop recipes, which we're sure you'll enjoy too.

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Pot Roast with Mushrooms with Gravy

What family doesn't love a great pot roast in the winter? Try this one.

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Potato Cake / Gattò di Patate

This is an absolutely delicious Italian-style potato cake -- Gattò di Patate -- that will impress your guests.

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Prosciutto and Cantaloupe Appetizer

This is an amazingly simple, but delicious appetizer that pairs nicely with many of our recipes for main dishes – especially those that are Italian. (Often when we make this recipe, we use half of the cantaloupe for this recipe and the other half to make this delicious Cantaloupe and Mint Sorbet, which you can access easily by clicking on that recipe title).

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Puttanesca Pasta Al Lago

This is a classic, slightly spicy Italian pasta favorite that's easy to make.

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Queso Dressing on a Carnitas and Nacho Salad

This is an amazing Mexican dinner salad that's sure to be a real hit with your family!

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Quiche with Seafood

This is a really wonderful quiche, which can be served for brunch, lunch, or dinner. We enjoy this quiche with Pickled Red Onions on the side, a drizzle of delicious Lemon Basil Sauce on the top, and a wonderful Lemon Vinaigrette Dressing on an Arugula Salad (and you can easily access these recipes by clicking on each of the recipe titles).

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Ranch Salad Dressing with Avocado and Cilantro on a Taco Salad with Carnitas (optional)

This is an amazing dinner salad with a Mexican flair to it -- one of our favorites!

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Rice in an American Style / Riso Americano

This creamy, rice dish is completely unconventional, but it is absolutely delicious! It features Carolina Plantation Aromatic Rice:

which has a nutty flavor and is amazingly aromatic. The type and quality of rice used is extremely important in this dish. Also, you can feel good about cooking with this rice because it is made with Green-e-Certified Renewable Energy. Carolina Plantation Rice also devotes a substantial portion of its revenues to enhance the habitat for wild ducks and geese at Plumfield Plantation, which is a designated waterfowl preserve. The rice easily stores in the freezer, and we order several bags at a time. It is truly a very unique and amazing rice. To order call 1-877-742-3496 or go to www.carolinaplantationrice.com.

NOTE: We are not affiliated with Carolina Plantation Rice in anyway; we just enjoy their rice!!! It is terrific if you follow the directions right on the bag, but the recipe below is one that we have come to really enjoy.

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Rice Pudding Al Lago

This is wonderful, warm rice pudding recipe for the conclusion of a wonderful Autumn or Winter meal with your family.

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Risotto Alla Milanese Con Funghi

One of our all-time favorite Italian recipes.

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Risotto with Arugula, Lemon Zest and Parmesan Cheese

This is a wonderful Italian risotto recipe from the north of Italy that I'm sure you'll enjoy!

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Risotto with Asparagus

We grow our asparagus, garlic and green onions and we enjoy mixing them into this wonderful risotto recipe.

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Roasted Elephant Garlic Spread, with Olive Oil and Herbs

This is an amazing garlic spread, which features one of our favorite types of garlic that we grow in our garden -- Elephant Garlic.

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Roasted Rack of Lamb

This simple recipe is sure to impress your guests. It is absolutely delicious! We enjoy this lamb with Sweet and Sour Mint Sauce and Roasted Red and Sweet Potatoes (and you can access those recipes easily by clicking on those recipe titles).

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Roasted Red and Sweet Potatoes

This is a great roasted winter potato dish to compliment your prime rib roast.

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Salad Croutons

You will be lucky if you can keep these for the salad…once you start eating them, I find you can't stop…they work great on soups as well!

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Salmon with Pesto Sauce

A wonderful, succulent Salmon dish topped with Pesto Sauce for a unique flavor…

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Sautéed Soft-Shell Blue Crabs

Soft shell crabs are actually "hard-shelled crabs" that are going through the molting process. A crab’s shell is external and must therefore be shed and replaced (or "molted") as the crab grows. To initiate the molting process, the crab releases a chemical agent, which separate its old shell from the underlying skin. Over the course of several weeks, the crab then grows a new, soft, paper-like shell under the old shell. The crab then ingests enough water to bloat itself, loosening the old shell. As a result, this means that almost the entire crab can be eaten, rather than having to shell the crab to reach the meat. In the United States, the finest species of soft-shell crabs is the Blue Crab, which appears in markets from April to September, and the best source is the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. Soft-shell crabs are delicious, and this recipe is a wonderful way to enjoy them. Our favorite source for ordering soft-shell, Blue Crabs from the Chesapeake Bay is Cameron’s Seafood (https://www.cameronsseafood.com/buy-seafood-online/), located in Rockville, MD. Their whale-sized (measuring 5+ inches in each crab), unbreaded, pre-cleaned, soft-shell, Blue Crabs are absolutely wonderful! We cannot recommend them more highly than we do!

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Shrimp Scampi

We love shrimp in a variety of preparations, so we love this shrimp scampi, which can also be served with asparagus risotto.

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Sourdough Bread

We enjoy a warm slice of sourdough bread with some butter or some extra virgin olive oil with some minced garlic and a bit of salt and a few red chili flakes…and it is absolutely delicious when it is homemade! This recipe takes time, but it is one I have made about once a week and “fine-tuned” it over time. After experimenting with several variations, this recipe has proven to be relatively fool-proof and it consistently produces wonderful bread.

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Sourdough Bread Starter

In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic changed our lifestyles completely. With more time at home, we took the opportunity (like many Americans) to make a sourdough starter and to create our own, personalized recipe for baking sourdough bread–-in a way that has become fool-proof for us after five months of experimenting. Of course, every loaf of sourdough bread starts with the starter. We have affectionately named our starter “The Beast”. The important note to consider when you decide to begin the process of making the sourdough starter is that you will have a lot of excess starter. Certainly, you can discard the excess starter, but I was raised with the philosophy that nothing should be thrown out if you can use it in some way. As a result, I save all of our “excess” starter in a platic container in the refrigerator; I now have several favorite recipes that use the excess Sourdough Bread Starter, including a great Sourdough Pizza Crust recipe (which you can access easily by clicking that recipe title).

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Sourdough Pizza Crust

Like many people, I decided to learn how to make sourdough bread during the 2020 pandemic. I made my starter, fed it twice a day for a week, and then every day for another week. The Sourdough Bread Starter has been used to make excellent Sourdough Bread, and you can follow our approach by clicking on those recipe titles to access our recipes. If you decide to make sourdough, it is quite time consuming and a labor of love. We think it is certainly worthy of the time and focus. If you decide to take this on, extra sourdough starter is inevitably created, because you will discard the surplus sourdough starter frequently. We now store our surplus sourdough starter in the refrigerator and use it in a few recipes like this one. It makes a very nice pizza dough.

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Spicy Thai Salad Dressing and Thai Salad

Using a number of the ingredients from the garden, we love this Thai preparation of salad and dressing!

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Spinach and Collard Greens

This is a hearty and healthy vegetable…one of our favorites that will convert those who don't think they like spinach…

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Spinach, Kale, Collard Greens and Ricotta Gnocchi

This is a classic preparation of gnocchi -- a favorite of our family.

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Steak Florentine (Bistecca alla Fiorentina)

This is a classic Italian preparation of a Porterhouse Steak that's easy to make.

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Steak Italian-Style in a Slow Cooker

This is a wonderful Italian preparation of a boneless, beef round steak.

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Sun-dried Tomato Sauce

A hearty sun-dried tomato sauce that's wonderful on salmon and chicken!

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Sweet and Sour Mint Sauce

We enjoy lamb and we particularly enjoy this sweet and sour mint sauce with our lamb, no matter if it is lamb chops, or Rack of Lamb (and you can easily access that wonderful recipe by clicking on that recipe title).

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Tomato Chutney

From the eclectic array of recipes on this website, you can see that we enjoy foods from all over the world, and one of our favorites is Indian cuisine. This tomato chutney has become one of our favorite recipes. We enjoy this chutney with papadums (also known as papads).

We purchased Lijjat Punjabi Masala Special Papad, which you can purchase on Amazon or through an Indian grocery store, if there is one near you. Lijjat offers many different flavors of papadums so you can choose the flavor that you enjoy.

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Tuna / Ahi Tuna with a Korean Flair

If you love Ahi Tuna (as we do), then you'll enjoy this wonderful preparation of Ahi Tuna with a Korean flair to it.

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Tzatziki Salad Dressing on a Radish and Cucumber Salad

As with many of the wonderful salads we eat, we grow most of the vegetables on our property. This fresh salad includes fresh radishes picked right from our garden this morning and a perfectly ripe avocado, picked from one of our trees a few days ago. It also includes some freshly picked and chopped chives.

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Tzatziki Salad Dressing with a Greek Salad

We love this fresh, Greek Salad and Tzatziki Salad Dressing for a slighty lighter salad.

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Umami Salad Dressing and Salad

Umami or savory taste is one of the five basic tastes, in addition to sweet, sour, salty and bitter. Translations for the word umami include: “a pleasant savory taste”, “yummy”, or “deliciousness.”

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Veal Marsala

This is a classic Italian favorite of ours!

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Veal Piccata

This is a classic veal preparation from the north of Italy, which is one of our family's favorites.

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Vinaigrette Salad Dressing

One of our favorite Italian salad dressings…perfect for a basic green salad.

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Vinaigrette Salad Dressing and Italian Salad

This is one of our favorite Italian salads, which features a number of the things we grow in our home gardens.

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Wasabi Salad Dressing with a Green Salad

One of our favorite steak house restaurants is Mastro’s Steakhouse in Westlake Village, California. Their steaks are wonderful, and we love the spicy “Mambo” salad dressing, which is a delicious dressing that gets its spicy punch from the addition of wasabi. We have created the recipe below so we that we can enjoy a spicy wasabi dressing at home. We really enjoy this salad dressing over a green salad and we serve it with one of our favorite steak recipes -- Steak Fiorentina (to read that recipe, please click here.)

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Wellington of Beef Tenderloin with Red-Wine Reduction Sauce and Creamy Green Peppercorn Brandy Sauce

It is generally agreed that Beef Wellington was created in celebration of the first Duke of Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, and his victory at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18th, 1815. The Duke was given his title after defeating Napoleon Bonaparte the year before, and not long after that he became the English Prime Minister. For such an iconic character, they name a pastry-ensconced beef dish after him. The Beef Wellington resembles the French filet de boeuf en croute and may have been renamed the Beef Wellington after the Battle of Waterloo, and includes a wonderful mushroom Duxelles. Duxelles was created by the 17th-century French chef François Pierre La Varenne (1615–1678) and was named after his employer, Nicolas Chalon du Blé, Marquis d'Uxelles. This is an amazing and very impressive dish that is certain to amaze your guests!! We enjoy serving this after a nice Caprese Salad with a Flair / Insalata Caprese along with a wonderful Potato Cake / Gattò Di Patate and Asparagus Spears and Pine-Nuts. (You can access each of these recipes easily by clicking on those recipe titles.)

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XO Sauce

The term XO is often identified with high quality, prestige, and luxury, such as the cognac that bears that moniker. The sauce has its roots in the great Cantonese kitchens of Hong Kong. Consequently, when an ingenious chef in the 1980s first slapped the "XO" label on his new creation, diners intuitively knew that they were in for something decadent. They were not disappointed, and you won’t be either. It is a more expensive sauce or condiment, but it is worth it!

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XO Sauce on Ahi Tuna Steaks

We are very fortunate to have great access to amazing fresh fish. We enjoy ahi tuna, and this recipe combines the fresh and amazing flavor of rare ahi tuna with the delicious depth of flavor of our homemade XO Sauce (you can access that recipe easily by clicking on that title). We enjoy this preparation of the ahi tuna with a nice cabbage salad -- XO Vinaigrette on a Chinese Salad (again you can access easily by clicking on that recipe title).

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XO Vinaigrette on a Chinese Salad

If you love XO Sauce, as we do, then you will love this Chinese Salad featuring the sauce in the XO Vinaigrette.

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Yellowfin Pad Thai

Pad thai is a stir-fried rice noodle dish commonly served at most restaurants in Thailand as part of the country's cuisine. It is often made with rice noodles, chicken, beef or seafood, among other vegetables. The ingredients are sautéed together in a wok, which creates an even heat distribution. Once the dish is completed, it is tossed in a pad thai sauce, which gives the dish its signature tangy salty flavor with a hint of sweetness. This is a wonderful recipe that combines several delicious Thai flavors.

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Yogurt and Blue Cheese Salad Dressing with an Arugula Salad

We enjoy growing many items on our property. In this recipe, we have included arugula, garlic, red onion, and green onion – all of them are freshly picked from our garden to produce this great salad.

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Zippy, Spicy Ginger Salad Dressing and Chinese Salad

We enjoy spicy pungent foods, and this dressing is terrific for salads and as a dipping sauce for Chinese pork and shrimp dumplings.

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Zucchini and Eggplant Lasagna

This is a wonderful lasagna dish that tastes like a classic lasagna but without the noodles. The eggplant and zucchini are roasted and they replace the noodles.

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Zucchini and Yellow Squash

This is a wonderful side dish and one of my favorite ways to cook zucchini and yellow squash. In this recipe, we enjoy that the squash is just cooked “al dente” and maintains its fresh flavor.

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