Secrets of the Best Chefs

need to sprinkle with more flour) to create a flat round circle. Fill each dumpling with 1 teaspoon of the carrot filling, and t ...

Celery Salad with Mushrooms and Grapes in a Celery Leaf Pesto ...

Serves 4 “Who likes celery?” Amanda Cohen asked me gleefully when she ...

taught me this salad. “Nobody!” Yet this recipe rescues celery from its lowly status on the vegetable totem pole. Strategy #1: W ...

2 cups button mushrooms, wiped clean with a damp paper towel and sliced 6 to 8 regular celery stalks, cut into ½-inch pieces on ...

leaves to fill ¼ cup. It may need a hit of lemon juice; steal some from the dressing. Don’t add oil here because you don’t w ...

Red Tomato Spaetzle in Yellow Tomato Coconut Sauce Serves 4 Cooking with color isn’t something most of us set out to do, but it’ ...

2 tablespoons olive oil 1 small white onion, diced 2 cloves garlic, chopped 1-inch piece of ginger, peeled and chopped Kosher sa ...

minutes. Bring a large pot of water to a gentle boil and set a bowl of ice water on the side. Hold a metal colander over the gen ...

To finish, spoon some of the sauce into a small sauté pan. Heat the sauce on medium heat, then add the spaetzle, cooking togethe ...

Linton Hopkins Chef-owner, Restaurant Eugene Atlanta, Georgia Valuation is a word that means a great deal to chef Linton Hopkins ...

But it’s the subject of valuation that gets him the most worked up. “You can put lime juice and hot sauce on something crunchy a ...

could’ve put them in a stock. I could’ve made a leek broth.” The fact that Hopkins can muster such pathos over wasted leek green ...

“Recipes no more make a good cook than sermons make a saint.” Hopkins’s Kitchen Know-How TO KEEP FOOD from feeling weighty and f ...

flavors lively. CUISINE, like wine, should have terroir. When you use local ingredients, you’re capturing flavors that can only ...

Pickled Black Radishes and Vidalia Onions Makes one 8-ounce jar of pickles This is just one example of the many things you can d ...

easier option—running the jar and lid through the dishwasher. The jar should be warm when you fill it. To prepare the vegetables ...

keep the water boiling for 20 minutes. With tongs, remove the jar to the counter and wait: you should hear a pop or see the top ...

Sautéed Georgia Trout with Watercress Puree and Mandarin Salad ...

Serves 4 ...