by Joseph Yacino | Jun 30, 2017 | cook, cooking, easy recipe, eggplant, fort lauderdale personal chef, italian, italy, palm beach personal chef, recipe, recipes
No need to salt the eggplant slices. This is done when the eggplants are old to remove liquid and some of the bitterness. The original eggplants where small oval shaped and cream or white coloured,like an egg, hence the name. Later they were bred to be the purple...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 29, 2017 | fort lauderdale personal chef, palm beach personal chef, quinoa, recipe, recipes, salad, vegan, vegetables, vegetarian
The first time I encountered quinoa I was living with my cousin in Manhattan on the lower east side. She was not the most handy person in the kitchen. When I walked in she yelled from her bedroom that the air-popper may be broken as she tried to “pop” the little...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 29, 2017 | anchovies, capers, chicken, fort lauderdale personal chef, france, french, palm beach personal chef, provencal, recipe, recipes, tapenade, tuna
Tapenade is French for capers. Tapenade is a dish from the Provençal region of France of finely chopped olives and capers. Frequently you will find anchovies, and poached flaked tuna. It is generally as a spread on bread, but is delicious on pasta or baked like...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 28, 2017 | bouillabaisse, cooking, fish, fort lauderdale personal chef, julia child, palm beach personal chef, recipe, recipes
…if you do not happen to live on the Mediterranean, you cannot obtain the particular rockfish, gurnards, mullets, weavers, sea eels, wrasses, and breams which they [French experts] consider absolutely essential. But you can make an extremely good fish soup even...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 28, 2017 | christmas, christmas in july, eggnog, fort lauderdale personal chef, palm beach personal chef, recipe, recipes, vegan, vegetarian
It is that time of the year, at least in most parts of the world: when the weather is cold, winds blow, snow falls and people gather together to celebrate with family and loved ones. South Florida may not get the snow and temperatures may not drop to what some...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 28, 2017 | almond cake, christmas, epiphany, fort lauderdale personal chef, palm beach personal chef, recipe, recipes, three kings cake
This is a traditional cake served on January 6, which is the Epiphany and also happens to be the twelfth day of Christmas. Today is the day many people celebrate . Little children put hay or fresh straw under their beds for the camels and wake up to presents under...