No. 108Recipe Card Posted on 4 Comments

Spatchcocked Chicken

A quicker way to cook a chicken, a spatchcocked or butterflied chicken cooks up in almost half the time as roasting a bird the traditional way – a convertible recipe for the grill or the oven that also sports your favorite marinade – plus, you get to say spatchcocked, a funny name for a great chicken routine – another Bijouxs Basics. Continue reading Spatchcocked Chicken

No. 104Recipe Card Posted on 2 Comments

Italian White Beans

Behold the humble bowl of beans, warming comfort in the late winter chill. Italian White Beans, creamy and garlic infused create a master recipe – versatile, flexible, easily transformed into a variety of dishes – a bowl of little white jewels, a Bijouxs Basics everyday beauty. Continue reading Italian White Beans

No. 92Recipe Card Posted on 2 Comments

Green Beans Caesar

Does the world really need another green bean holiday side dish? Did we really need to deep fry, brine, bake in a bag or smoke a turkey, create stuffing muffins or explore every dessert that utilizes pumpkin? Considering the holiday food fascination, the answer to the first question is yes, we do need another green bean holiday side dish – here’s a little jewel from the Bijouxs archives and no, it does not involve canned soup.  Continue reading Green Beans Caesar

No. 85Recipe Card Posted on 8 Comments

Broccoli Rabe Soup

Standing alone at midnight on a dark, cold train platform somewhere in the Alps, the train bound for Florence pulled in slowly and stopped, with only one door opening near the front car. Scrambling with my luggage in tow to reach the only open door, I was met by a porter who informed me that due to a train strike I would not be boarding my sleeping car as assigned, however a few hundred lire later I was onboard, the sole passenger on a ghost train bound for Florence.

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