Cooking with Wine

October 14, 2011

What kind of wine should I use when I’m cooking? As Julie Andrews once sang: “Let’s start at the very beginning…” : Do not use “cooking wine”. Look next to the vinegars in any grocery store and you’ll find an array of bottles labeled “white cooking wine”, “Cooking Sherry”, “Cooking Marsala”, etc. The reason they [...]

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Green Tomato Pie

October 5, 2011

Traditionally this time of year the gardens are either winding down from summer crops or bearing their bounty with fall vegetables like pumpkins, winter squash and other fall produce.  Soon northern areas will be getting their first frosts and tomatoes that haven’t had time to ripen will be lost…or not. Thanks to the popular movie [...]

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Cutting Up with Kari Underly–The Art of Beef Cutting

September 30, 2011

It’s true when they say “if you don’t use it you’ll lose it”. I had butchery class in culinary school but since then have never really worked anyplace where I needed to, or had much opportunity to do butchery. Recently finding myself with much coveted time off and not sure how to use this valuable [...]

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Ten Years of Delicious Benefits

September 22, 2011

Each year St. Vincent’s Health System Foundation of Jacksonville, FL hosts an annual food and wine gala to benefit their community health outreach.  The outreach ministry helps to fund a mobile community clinic to take healthcare to neighborhoods and areas where they would otherwise probably go without.  The most recent 2011 gala held September 8-10th [...]

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Fried Green Tomatoes with Crab Salad & Chow Chow Relish

September 14, 2011

This is a recipe that I recently created to feature as my tasting at the 10th Annual “Delicious Destinations” gala to benefit the St. Vincent’s Health Foundation of Jacksonville, FL. Even if you’re not a tomato lover I would encourage you to give fried green tomatoes a shot.  The flavor is nothing like a ripe [...]

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Thrill of a Grill–Grilled Peach & Vidalia Onion Relish

August 30, 2011
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I can be the worst when it comes to making a major purchase.  I guess you could say I definitely learned the importance of comparison shopping, but the problem is that I tend to take it to the far extreme.  There always seems to be one more place I need to check before I make [...]

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Special Event: Saltus River Grill – Beaufort, SC

August 28, 2011

Earlier this summer I had the pleasure of meeting Pat Branning, the food editor of the Beaufort Tribune. when she came to participate in one of my classes.  She’s just recently published a beautiful hardcover book that highlights many of the Low Country inspired recipes that she’s collected and created over the years.  In addition [...]

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Gazpacho al Andaluz

August 21, 2011

It was another hot and steamy day here in Savannah and based on this summer’s weather patterns, it probably was where you are too.  For supper tonight I enjoyed a big bowl  of refreshingly cold and flavorful “Gazpacho al Andaluz” leftover from yesterday’s “Fresh from the Market” cooking class.  (ok, truth be told…in true bachelor [...]

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Peaches: Georgia vs. South Carolina

August 16, 2011

Shortly after moving to Georgia just over six years ago I was surprised to hear someone say “Georgia’s known as the peach state but South Carolina peaches taste better!” Really? I probably wouldn’t have been as surprised if they had been spoken by a South Carolinian but the fact that it was a native born [...]

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Okra & Tomatoes (On the Grill?)

July 11, 2011

Frequently I’m asked how I come up with new ideas for recipes and menus.  There’s no particular method.  Each chef is inspired in different ways, just the same that each painter or artist is going to find inspiration from different sources. Quite honestly, the ideas that I tend to like the best are those that [...]

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