Menu du jour recipes cold dishes : 20 Recipes


  • Recipe Chinese Spiced Cold Duck
    Chinese Spiced Cold Duck
    A dear friend of mine shared this recipe with me. It's perfect for an appetizer or a "cold platter" in Chinese. Ingredients: 1 duck (3-4 lbs) 3 Tbsp. salt 1 Tbsp. Szechuan peppercorns 2 star anise 1 tsp. cinnamon 3 slices[...]
  • Recipe Cold Days Call For Chili
    Cold Days Call For Chili
      Sadly, the groundhog saw his shadow on February second, leaving us with six more weeks of winter.  Fortunately, you can warm yourself up with this hot, delicious, slow cooker chili. Ingredients: 1 pound ground turkey (you[...]
  • Recipe Stew and Goulash: Cold Weather Food
    Stew and Goulash: Cold Weather Food
    Enter my Tate's Bake Shop Cookbook and Cookie giveaway here .  Over a year ago, I was walking through our local Kmart and found a big display of Martha Stewart items that were being discontinued.  Amongst all of the boxes of[...]
  • Recipe An Easy Pea-sy Meal for A Cold Spring Night!
    An Easy Pea-sy Meal for A Cold Spring Night!
    We're lucky here in Sonoma. The days are growing warm if not downright hot, and the nights are still briskly cool. We're also fortunate in that there's a whole lot of great stuff coming into season and readily available. One of those things is[...]
  • Recipe Summer in Berlin: Hackescher Market 2 and Cold Cucumber Soup
    Summer in Berlin: Hackescher Market 2 and Cold Cucumber Soup
    I ended my day  by making myself a cold cucumber soup. However, once I had finished eating my salad, I headed back to the market. I wanted to examine the Austrian (Wiener) strudel stand: with a variety of strudels, both sweet[...]
  • Recipe Summer in Berlin: Hackescher Market 2 and Cold Cucumber Soup
    Summer in Berlin: Hackescher Market 2 and Cold Cucumber Soup
    I ended my day  by making myself a cold cucumber soup. However, once I had finished eating my salad, I headed back to the market. I wanted to examine the Austrian (Wiener) strudel stand: with a variety of strudels, both sweet[...]
  • Recipe Chicken galantine
    Chicken galantine
    Hi, our last recipe is chicken galantine . In Italy we use to prepare this dish for Holidays but it’s so good that we think it can be a summer dish too! It is made with boned chicken, salami (such as ham, bacon and mortadella),[...]
  • Recipe Science Experiment You Can Eat: Salted Duck Eggs
    Science Experiment You Can Eat: Salted Duck Eggs
    It was in high school when my two passions of science and food intersected in a physics lab. I was a student at the Chinese High School in Singapore , and the assignment was to take fresh duck eggs and immerse them in salt water. Through osmosis[...]
  • Recipe Science Experiment You Can Eat: Salted Duck Eggs
    Science Experiment You Can Eat: Salted Duck Eggs
    It was in high school when my two passions of science and food intersected in a physics lab. I was a student at the Chinese High School in Singapore , and the assignment was to take fresh duck eggs and immerse them in salt water. Through osmosis[...]
  • Recipe Pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks
    Pasta salad with artichokes and surimi crab sticks
    Hi, yesterday we had no much time for cooking and it was very hot. What to do for lunch? We looked at what we had …. a can of artichoke, pasta, surimi in the fridge. Good! What about a quick pasta salad ? We made it and the result was[...]