Pâques (Easter) is the ultimate occasion for pâtissiers to flex their chocolate-making skills. The French like to celebrate with a broad range of chocolate surprises: from cocoa fish and monkeys to tree trunks and milkmaid figurines. Traditional themes and simple egg shapes are for amateurs.
Author: Chef M
These fried delights are a marriage of Africa, Europe, and the Americas, combining ingredients, techniques, and tastes from all three places. This recipe requires preparation of the picadillo recipe (also included in this chapter).
As the most well known of the Caribbean soups, callaloo is found throughout the Caribbean and in many variations.
Although you could serve these gorgeous grilled artichokes as an appetizer, in parts of the country where they are grown most notably California’s coastal areas they are more popular than potatoes as a side dish for dinner.
This unusual side dish has double the good green stuff garden peas and edamame. They’re cooked, pureed, and flavored with garlic, mint, lemon, kosher salt, and lots of freshly ground black pepper before being spread on warm ricotta toast. Delicious with a roasted chicken.