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Dinner for Two: Valentine’s Day at Home

There’s nothing more romantic than a home-cooked meal. So if your plans for Valentine’s Day involve staying cozy at home, we’ve got some recipes that will win over your sweetheart. A simple 3-course meal that is still impressive – and comes together quickly – is what the night requires. We’ve got your dinner plans below….

Best Foie Gras Recipes for Valentine’s Day Dinner

Channel your inner chef and make something special for Valentine’s dinner with one of our top five foie gras recipes. There are few ingredients so rarified as foie gras, and any meal that includes it is guaranteed to be a memorable one. We’ve gathered some of our most impressive foie gras recipes so you can…

5 One-Pot Meals to Satisfy Your Comfort Food Cravings

Easy meals with less cleanup are the order of the day. They are what every home cook wants: good food, no fuss, and a minimum of dishes to wash. The solution is simple: one-pot recipes. During the winter a hearty cassoulet or stew can meet the need for simplicity and ease (no knives necessary!). But…

Recipes We Repeat: Groundhog Day Edition

It’s Groundhog Day, and that reminds us that it’s also the 25th anniversary of the Bill Murray movie of the same name. If you missed that classic film, Murray plays a weatherman assigned to cover the Groundhog Day festivities in Punxsutawney, PA. Through some kind of magical time warp, he get stuck repeating the same day…

Quick & Easy Recipe: Chicken Tinga on French Fries

What’s better than french fries? How about fries topped with shredded chicken tinga and a drizzle of cheese sauce? Our fully-cooked chicken leg confit makes this recipe a cinch, and using a bag of quality frozen fries means you can get it in the oven in minutes. This winning recipe will please kids and adults alike…

What Your Fries Are Missing

What’s better than french fries? How about fries topped with shredded chicken tinga and a drizzle of cheese sauce? And we have the recipe for you – just in time for the big game. Brittany at Beyond the Bayou blog has fallen hard for our chicken confit. She came up with this winning recipe, which…

Who Won the Cassoulet War?

Our 4th annual Cassoulet War took place Monday evening, January 29, 2018. With 23 chefs competing for 3 prizes and bragging rights until next year’s competition, it was a night of great smells and incredible flavors. Attendees (including several chef competitors from years past) challenged themselves to taste each cassoulet while drinking fine wine from…

Heirloom Flavor: Cooking with Tarbais Beans

What’s so special about Tarbais beans? Brought from the New World, the Haricot Tarbais flourished at the foot of the Pyrénées in Southwest France, and its cultivation secrets were passed down from generation to generation. Today the farmers that carry the tradition forward produce beautiful white heirloom beans of outstanding quality. These distinctly French beans are…

You Can’t Win Without These Game Day Recipes

When everyone gets together to watch the game the party is fueled by fan excitement. But everyone knows that the snacks are almost as important as the drama playing out on TV. Score extra points with your spread at the Big Game this year. We’ve collected 5 of our favorite finger foods for sports watching,…

Your New Favorite Recipe: Chicken Confit Pastry

This stunning recipe looks harder than it is. The flaky pastry can be store-bought (it doesn’t get easier!) and if you can tie shoes, you’ll be adept at creating this braided look. Packed with our new chicken confit, mixed mushrooms, spinach, truffle butter béchamel, and two types of cheese, this is a whole new level of…

You Could Win a Trip to France!

There are still a few tickets left for our 4th Annual Cassoulet War in New York City – the tastiest event of the season! This Monday night, January 29th, 2018, join our celebrity chefs at the battle for cassoulet supremacy! Plus a raffle! All ticket holders are entered to win a round-trip ticket to France, courtesy…

A Sous Vide Recipe: Venison Osso Buco

The perfect winter meal, venison osso buco is most often braised until fall-off-the-bone tender. But our friends at ChefSteps suggest you sous vide this tasty cut. They asked wild game expert David Draper to develop this recipe with our venison osso buco, which yields flavorful results. Layered with sinew and covered in silverskin, deer forelegs (or…