Shepherd’s Pie, Cottage Pie, Cumberland pie, Shepherdless pie, or Hachis Parmentier is a dish of cooked minced meat topped with mashed potato. Its defining ingredients are red meat, onions, gravy or sauce, a topping of mashed potato. Common variants include adding vegetables to the filling and topping the dish with cheese. In early cookery books,…
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Fish En Papillote. Don’t you feel fancy just saying it? Despite what its elegant name might suggest, this method of baking fish in parchment paper packets is one of the easiest, most foolproof methods to cook fish. Fish cooked en papillote (which is French for “in paper” and is pronounced ahn-pa-pee-yawt) means to bake fish inside of a…
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I owe this post all to my dear friend, Mike.Well a connoisseur of “the basics,” (i.e. steak, pizza, and bread – oh, and Mama Kovalsky’s Soup), his display of bravery, desire, and dedication towards crafting this meal on his own (while in Saudi Arabia, so be it), impressed me, wowed me, and made me so…
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Slightly reminiscent of my Venison Meatballs from years ago, this version of Bison Balsamic Meatballs & Scented Rosemary Mashers is even better! It’s not just the bison that makes the meal so good, or the aroma of fresh rosemary wafting through the kitchen in every way. Nope. It’s the homemade tomato sauce. That’s it! It…
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