by Joseph Yacino | Jun 30, 2017 | fort lauderdale personal chef, gravy, holiday eating, holidays, palm beach personal chef, recipe, thanksgiving, turkey gravy
A healthier and even tastier version of a classic gravy and be made for Beef, Chicken, Pork, and even Turkey. There is no need to add any extra fat. Instead of slathering your chicken or turkey with butter lightly brush with a little oil and prepare as usual. Same...
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...
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...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 26, 2017 | allergy free, banana, dairy free, pudding, recipe, recipes
We have been working on a dairy free pudding, in this case a banana pudding using coconut milk. The following recipe was been reworked a couple of times and the results are pretty good. In fact, you could eliminate the sugar/sweetener all together when...
by Joseph Yacino | Jun 26, 2017 | cooking, fort lauderdale personal chef, france, french, french cooking, palm beach personal chef, recipe, recipes, tarte tartin
There is some controversy as to how this divine dessert (tarte solognote) came about. Was it an accident (as so many kitchen wonders are) or was it just an improved upon recipe of the region? In any case it was made popular at by 2 sisters that ran the Hotel...
