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Salmon

Panko-Crusted Salmon with French Lentils

January 30, 2011 by Charles 9 Comments

There are over twenty cookbooks on my kitchen shelf, the collection squeezed between a small, black, plastic bookend on one end, and the beige kitchen wall on the other end.  From the kitchen, you can see the various spines, with a variety of colors, types, and themes.  There are books on baking and grilling.  There are books devoted only to Italian and Greek cooking.  And there are books from restaurants encountered along the way.

My collection, in other words, has a nice variation.  Except in one respect.  On the wall side, wedged between my Cooking Light Desserts and Justin Wilson’s Cajun Cookbook, sits seven books, each spine beginning with the words “Barefoot Contessa.”

Ina Garten is, in other words, my go to chef.  So with my New Year’s Resolution to make more main courses, I naturally…

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Fish, French, Lentils, Panko, Salmon, Steaming

Broiled Salmon with Orzo Salad

February 20, 2010 by Charles 8 Comments

When I read the instructions for preparing orzo, I was a little taken aback.

Orzo is sometimes referred to as “Italian rice.”  And rice, I know, absorbs the liquid it’s cooked in.  So, when the instructions called for 2 quarts of water to cook 1 cup of orzo, I was a little confused.  With a water to orzo ratio of 8:1, thoughts of football-size orzo grains popped into my head.

Fortunately, I read the rest of the directions, and noticed …

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Broiling, Feta, Fish, Orzo, Pasta, Quick and Easy, Salmon, Tomato

Croque Norvegien

May 31, 2009 by Charles 2 Comments

Croque Monsieur

If you’ve ever been in a Parisian café, you’ve seen Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle at work.  In this environment, waiters move about like errant electrons, brushing past you with little care for their momentum, their movements, or their duties. To a stationary observer, it is impossible to know both the location of a server and the speed at which he is ignoring you.

The croque-monsieur made its debut in 1910, in a café on the Boulevard des Capucines.  The origins of the name are unknown, but I suspect the etymology is quintessentially French.  An exasperated Frenchman …

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Filed Under: Entrees Tagged With: Broiling, Cheese, Fish, French, Ina Garten, Salmon, Sandwich

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