I’m thrilled to have a recipe today from my good friend Jeremy Bernard, who knows a lot about hospitality. His recipe for chicken with rainbow chard is beyond delicious; we were all scraping our plates. Jeremy left the White House, where he was Social Secretary to President and Mrs. Obama, and well – I’ll just let Jeremy tell his own story: Having left my position as White House Social Secretary, I arrived back in California to the cool mornings and […]
This is a classic recipe from a classic source: The Inn at Little Washington Cookbook. For people who live in the Washington area, The Inn is the place to go to mark a special holiday or family celebration, and we’re lucky to have their cookbooks as a source of inspiration for those extra special occasions we spend at home. The lobster with grapefruit butter sauce is an unlikely combination of flavors, but the grapefruit plays off of the butter and […]
There has always been an air of southern hospitality about the White House, situated as it is below the Mason-Dixon line. It’s reflected in the sumptuous afternoon reception buffets offered to guests, and one of the classic foods for those events is a good old-fashioned ham biscuit. There are many ways to make a great biscuit, but for this particular recipe I prefer those that are made without baking powder, so that the biscuits don’t raise too much. You wouldn’t […]
These two open-faced sandwiches are the kind of food that take the hipster phrase “on toast” and give it real meaning. The first one, a ricotta, nectarine, and prosciutto sandwich, came from my daughter, who spent six weeks in Italy a number of years ago, taking full advantage of the language (read: culinary) education she received there. She gained a pound a week, eating six meals a day, including one of these sandwiches in tramezzini form, and said it was […]
I think of this as a Sunday dinner meal, mostly because the idea of making gnocchi from scratch conjures the image of a smiling Italian lady kneading and chopping dough in her sunny kitchen before heading off to church, pulling basil from the pots on her windowsill and enjoying a creative and peaceful moment before the day really begins. If leisurely cooking seems more fantasy than reality, maybe we need to start thinking about “appointment cooking,” rather than “appointment TV.” […]
