We eat a lot of chicken, and as much as we like it, it can become a little predictable. Spatchcocking, said to derive from the term “dispatch the cock,” is an 18th century English or Irish word, and refers to a method of cooking a chicken by removing the backbone and flattening it. The chicken cooks more quickly, and all of the skin is nicely crisped, so it is more tender. It also makes it easy to cook a whole […]
The day after Thanksgiving, I always wake up ready for some lighter fare… Harry and Auggie appreciating the salad You have to do something with leftovers, right? I like the idea of a salad supper on the Day After, and this one uses the leftover turkey. It has asparagus and baby spinach, and lovely little potatoes coated in a mustard-honey dressing. And you’ll feel righteous for using up the turkey! Did you ever notice how leftover turkey recipes are usually […]
Chef Henry Haller was the Executive Chef at the White House for twenty-one years and through five presidents – Johnson, Nixon Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Though I never had the pleasure of meeting him, I’ve used his cookbook, which he wrote after leaving the White House, many times. Every person who works in the Residence has a unique vantage point from which to view contemporary American history, but Chef Haller may have more to tell than most: he actually lived […]
There are few things more satisfying on a wet, bone-chilling evening than a hearty pot of soup. This lamb and barley stew is the kind of one-dish meal that is even better the next day as leftovers.; all it needs is a slice of rustic bread, a green salad, and a glass of burgundy to round out the meal. We’ve been eating this stew for so long that I don’t know where the original recipe came from. During our recent […]
My friend Lorraine Wallace is a great cook – so good, in fact, that she has two cookbooks to her name, and a third one coming out next year. Her first cookbook, Mr. Sunday’s Soups, refers to her family tradition of making soups on Sundays to accommodate her family member’s busy schedules. Her husband, Chris Wallace, has been the anchor of Fox News Sunday since 2003, and after grilling Washington bigwigs at an early hour on Sundays, he would come […]
