Main Dish Recipes

Easy Korean Beef and Kimchi Stir Fry in Pictures

​I love Korean short ribs. The marinated beef balances sweet and salty, spicy and savory just right. But short ribs are also pretty fatty and more difficult to cook at home. So when I got my hands on a jar of kimchi and some lean, top round beef, I thought I'd take the classic short rib marinade a ... More >>

Recipe: Jumbo Prawns, Tuscan Style (Recipe From Casa D'Angelo in Fort Lauderdale)

​Casa D'Angelo is known for its Tuscan cooking -- and what better way to enjoy the  flavors of this elegant yet comforting cuisine than through Chef Angelo's specialty prawn dish? It's a quick and easy recipe that's sure to impress even the most discerning guest. Gamberoni Al Vino Bianco ... More >>

Recipe: Lasagna Bolognese From Cafe Vico

​ Chef Marco Vico from Cafe Vico Ristorante is known for his lasagna. Made with fresh pasta and a thick, creamy sauce, there is no question that this dish will make you a kitchen star to your diners.  The recipe, after the jump.

Make These Winning Top Chef Banana Fritters at Home

​Last night's episode of Top Chef that took place in Singapore was easily the best of the season. It featured a series of stunning looking dishes from all four remaining cheftestants that were cooked in a backdrop full of beauty and culture. Everything looked so tasty, it made me want to hop a fli ... More >>

Recipe: Braised Beef Short Ribs

Bon Appetit​Andrew Lampasone, owner of Wine Watch in Fort Lauderdale, enjoys a good meal with his wine.  This braised beef short rib recipe is a winner at their catered events and at his home dinner table.  Braised Beef Short Rib au Thyme JusThis recipe needs 2 days of marinading and h ... More >>

How to Make the Perfect Roast Chicken (Hint: Pre-Salting)

​Is there any food more delicious, more comforting, more soothing to the soul and taste buds than a perfectly juicy, succulent, crisp and golden-skinned roasted chicken?  In a word, no.  Unfortunately, finding that perfectly juicy, succulent, crisp and golden-skinned roasted chicken is a ... More >>

Dean James Max Wins Crown in Great American Seafood Cook-Off With Clams BBLT

Chef Dean Max's Clams BBLT​We told you about Chef Dean Max of 3030 Ocean in Fort Lauderdale competing this past weekend in the Great American Seafood Cook-Off in NOLA. NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service sponsored the seventh-annual contest, held again in New Orleans. We now present you with h ... More >>

Easy, Low-Fat Recipe: Summertime Orzo Pasta Salad

John Linn​When I think of summer food, I think bright, bold flavors that won't weigh you down. And this summertime orzo pasta salad delivers on all fronts. It's got everything you'd want to awaken your palate in this brutal heat: There are woody kalamata olives; tart marinated artichoke hearts; co ... More >>

Grilling Something Different: Grilled Chicken Pasta With Gorgonzola Cream Sauce

John Linn​This Fourth of July, you don't have to just grill something and slop it on a plate. Grilled food can make a wonderful addition to a larger dish, like in this pasta with Gorgonzola cream sauce.This bold, hearty pasta is livened by roasted red peppers, onion, and bacon, while the addition ... More >>

How to Make Jerk Chicken and Ribs To Die For

​Whether it's smoking low and slow or grilling fast and hot, I absolutely love making chicken and ribs during the Summer. And my favorite preparation for making each at home has to be Jerk-style. Good jerk just has so much going for it. The spiciness makes you sweat and actually cools you off in t ... More >>

It's a Pasta, It's a Frittata. . . It's a Pasta Frittata

​Everybody needs a "kitchen sink" recipe, a quick and easy dish that you can throw together from whatever you happen to have hanging around in the fridge--leftover meats, small chunks of cheese, the last salvageable vegetables.  In addition to the time saved shopping and cleaning up refrigera ... More >>

Recipe: Chorizo Skewers with Spanish Orzo

​Every cook needs a few flavor bombs in their kitchen, ingredients that can take a dish from tasteless to tasty with minimal time and effort.  Salt is the most basic flavor bomb, even more useful now with the availability of various flavored, smoked and sea salts. Artisan olive oil and real b ... More >>

Sheila's Famous in Lake Worth Melds Bahamian Food With Barbecue

A Recipe for Hurricane Season: Latin Macho Burger

Dori ZinnThe " latin macho" burger from Latin Burger and Taco​Besides Mother Nature's damage, the only other thing hurricane season brings is a massive barbecue. After last week's announcement from the National Hurricane Center that this year's season will be "extremely active," veteran hurrican ... More >>

Memorial Day Grill Recipes: Mango Barbecue Sauce, Fish Marinade, Slaw

Recipes for grilling on Memorial Day or for any cook-outs.

The Crappy Kitchen Cookbook

​Is your kitchen smaller than Snookie's brainpan? Do you barely have enough counter space to spill a can of Bud? Does your refrigerator wheeze like Kirstie Alley running a marathon? Is your stove something Neanderthal Man would have used to roast a hunk of woolly mammoth?  If you answered "ye ... More >>

The Best Damned Chicken Caesar Salad Ever

​There's something furtive, slightly embarrassing, even shameful about it. Sort of like spanking the monkey to Sarah Palin videos or watching the goombah nitwits of Jersey Shore.      But we do it anyway, at lunch and even at dinner, unable to resist its base, carnal lure. Sure ... More >>

Homemade Pizza: The Meal to Seal the Deal

You could just make pasta. You could roast a chicken and boil some water, and create a delicious meal to present to your almost-significant other. But if you want to seal the deal, don't let them sit around watching you mix, stir and flip. Cooking shouldn't be a spectator sport, so get them to activ ... More >>

The Complete Idiot's Guide to: Matzo Ball Soup

Last week, we discussed my only love for Passover: brisket. OK, so maybe I lied, because I do have strong ties to matzo ball soup, which we serve by the gallon at my Passover Seders. Flickr: Josh Bousel​ It's the only form I can tolerate matzo in. In its most natural form, I am completely disgus ... More >>

Italian Oven Café's Artichoke-Lemon Pesto

​I miss Italian Oven Café.  For a quick, inexpensive, Italianesque lunch in a contemporary, cleanly designed room, this now-long gone eatery in West Palm's CityPlace did it better than just about anybody. What did it in apparently had nothing to do with the food but with a much-delayed openi ... More >>

Prepare for Passover with Sliced Beef Brisket

There is no way of getting around the fact that Passover is my least favorite holiday. Ever. It's sad, really, because the holiday commemorates the freedom the Israelites gained when they left Egypt like a bazillion years ago. It's actually a celebration. But Passover is different. Starting Monday ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Table 42's Coal Oven Wings

​The best thing to happen to chicken wings since the invention of hot sauce is the upscale pizzeria.  Sure, everyone loves Buffalo chicken wings, perhaps the ultimate culinary achievement in turning a pig's ear (or in this case, the useless appendages of a corporate-raised sack of virtually f ... More >>

Cooking With Dried Chiles, Part 3: Barbecued Pork Al Pastor

John LinnBarbecued pork al pastor all chopped up and ready to eat.​Welcome back to Charlie's dried chile adventure. In previous installments, we talked about how to prepare dried chiles as powder or puree, and how to transform those ingredients into award-winning chili con carne. Today, we're goin ... More >>

Cooking With Dried Chiles, Part 2: Chili Con Carne

John LinnA bowl of spicy chile con carne using home-ground chili powder. Nothing's better.​Yesterday, I talked about how to turn dried, Mexican chiles into powder or paste that can be used in any number of dishes. Today, we're going to put those ingredients to use in a batch of chili con carne, Te ... More >>

Haute Stuff

​The humble burger is humble no more.  Truffles, foie gras, all manner of designer beef, exotic cheeses, infantile greens, confit-ed everything, artisan buns, more aiolis than you can shake a whisk at have all collided with the basic meat patty to take the burger from blue-collar grub to high ... More >>

A Nice Cuppa Soup

​Seeing as South Florida has at least temporarily morphed into Buffalo with palm trees, the ability of a cup (or bowl or railroad tank car) of soup to ward off the cold has never been more important.  And though we don't have our normally gorgeous, balmy weather, we do still have access to al ... More >>

It's Cold Outside, So Let's Get Stewed

Photo by Flickr user ulterior epicure​When I was a kid growing up in the Northeast, cold weather was good news. I'd get outdoors early to enjoy the snow and chat up cute girls in puffy down jackets. And I'd spend the entire day outside, trying to stay upright on my minibike while running wide open ... More >>

Been Drinking? Think Meat.

flickr user: wharman​I'm relatively sure that I'm not the only person who, after an evening of cocktails with friends who recently headed home, has stood in his kitchen looking desperately for an easy, late-night, meat-based meal. But cooking abilities are questionable for someone who's holding on ... More >>

What Holiday Dishes Are You Cooking?

John LinnA homemade cranberry dressing makes this easy salad a holiday treat.​ The most important thing about the holidays next to family? What's on the table, of course. My family usually starts preparing their holiday meal a day in advance, and this year is no different. We're going to be doing ... More >>

Order Up: Beachside Grill

​With the Holidays right around the corner, it seemed like an appropriate time to review Beachside Grill, a retro bar and restaurant in Lauderdale by the Sea thats specialty is Sunday gravy. Beachside's version is chock full of tender pork and Italian sausage, and while it's hard to take it over y ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Baked Halibut

John Linn​This delicate fish is so simple, even the most inexperienced cooks can make it. Start with inch-thick fillets of the fleshy white fish -- fresh is best, though even the frozen packages available at Publix are of decent quality. Just be sure to defrost properly by placing the fillets in t ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Brined Pork Roast

Photo by flickr user su-lin.​I made this pork loin last week while staying with my fiancee's family in cold, western Colorado. I wanted to cook something that would feel special, so I bought a six-pound pork loin that still had a nice layer of fat attached to the top and decided to brine it. The r ... More >>

Purge the Bird and Braise Yourself Some Short Ribs

Photo by Flickr user Dave Lifson​I love me some good poultry. I've basked in the glory of wings, become reverent in the presence of a well-cooked turkey, waxed lyrical about Thanksgiving leftovers. But it's right about this time every year that I find out I have a poultry limit. It's time to flush ... More >>

Wake Up, Turkey Slobs, Because it's Time for Killer Leftovers

Photo by Flickr user erincooksYes, put everything on it.​Thanksgiving Day, 5 p.m.: Family members are sprawled on your furniture, belts off, pants unbuttoned, fancy holiday shirts marked by cranberry and gravy spills, making half-assed attempts to argue. Your father-in-law has been in the bathroom ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Steak and Egg Burger

John LinnThis burger combines a meaty steak patty that has texture and bite with a buttery croissant and fried egg. It tastes just like a steak and egg breakfast.​ Pictured: Steak and egg burger on a croissant.Burger: One pound of sirloin steak, fat left on. Chop into one inch cubes. Place in food ... More >>

Dish Deconstructed: Matteo's Linguine Frutti di Maré

Bill Citara​Matteo's is the kind of upscale Italian-American restaurant that's as common as Botoxed foreheads and lipo-ed thighs in its tony Boca Raton neighborhood. The menu doesn't plow any new culinary ground, but what it does it does pretty well, and one dish it does really well is the classic ... More >>

Butts and Cubes? Yeah, Those are Some Good, Cheap Meats

Photo by Flickr user Maddog 20/20Cube steak: Tasty, yes, but cover it in something.​Just because it's spendy doesn't make it good, as the series of "Mummy" movies keeps hammering home again and again. But the reverse is true as well: it doesn't have to cost a ton of money to not suck. Witness the ... More >>

Ooh-la-la, Le Haute Burger

B. Citara​You don't need a weatherman to know the wind is blowing the rich, beefy aromas of hamburgers sizzling on the grill all over the country. Upscaling the humble burger is more popular than straight white teeth and money in the bank nowadays, as even recession-shafted diners can pry a few ni ... More >>

It's Football Season, So Time for Full-Contact Chili

Photo by Flickr user ricko​Meat isn't always about the gourmet, you know. I mean, dry-aged prime steaks, grilled perfectly and served with a hearty beverage of your choice may be as close to a perfect way to spend some quality eating-time as I can think of, but it's not the only way to achieve the ... More >>

Stealing from the Restaurant: Anthony's Meatball and Ricotta Pizza

I'm a sucker for Anthony's Coal Fired Pizza's meatball and ricotta pie. The combination of the thin, crisp, slightly charred, and bubbled crust with a simple tomato sauce, a little mozzarella, tiny meatballs, and blobs of rich ricotta is hard to resist when the urge for takeout pizza strikes.  ... More >>

Skip the Smoker; Pulled Pork Just takes Patience -- and Red Stripe

Photo by Flickr user Another Pint Please... As a young man, the subtleties of pulled pork were lost on me. Technique, patience, care: pointless wastes of time to my still immature, I-want-it-fast mind. "Grab the pork," I thought, "and pull it. It's not rocket science."With maturity, though, cam ... More >>

A Burger Goes to Spain

Clean Plate Charlie is obsessed with burgers. Hey, it's better than sneaking out of the governor's mansion to rub the bacon with former Argentine TV reporters or performing unnatural acts on small farm animals.   Charlie's burger fetish plays itself out by coming up with patties that chann ... More >>

Screw Jimmy Dean: Homemade Breakfast Sausage You'll Flip Over

John LinnSaturday I was wandering around Publix looking for sundries for a Father's Day brunch I was having at my place for my girlfriend's father. He's a real dad's dad: He enjoys motorcycles, power tools, target shooting, good booze, and, of course, meat. So whatever brunch I put together had to i ... More >>

Stealing From the Restaurant: Pork-Stuffed Shrimp at Home

Clean Plate Charlie had this really cool idea. Take one of your favorite dishes from one of your favorite restaurants and, applying a little time, a few tablespoons of culinary knowledge, and a willingness to eat the inevitable mistakes, attempt to re-create it at home.Since Charlie absolutely adore ... More >>

Cucina Verite: Mostly Martha

Too many cooks make one lovely soupI love to serve them roasted.It gives them a more robust taste.A wonderful side dish would be ravioli with boletus --truffles with wild mushroomsor chanterellesdepending on the season.But you need a good pigeon.It must be meaty or it'll dry out.You could also cook ... More >>

Post-Easter Regression: The Triple-Pork Sandwich. With Peeps.

Peeps' Last Meal My friend Peggy Jean was in town over the Easter holidays. Peggy Jean is a real Southern cook, which means that just about everything she makes calls for many pounds of butter, cartons of heavy whipping cream, half and half, bacon fat, salt, and variations on the theme of sugar (tur ... More >>

The Dish Ran Away With the Silver Spoon

And the cow jumped over the mooney

Clay Conley Shoots Down A Rumor And Serves Up A Recipe

In yesterday's Short Order I suggested that a major unnamed chef would be shortly leaving a major unnamed restaurant. I was alluding to Clay Conley of Azul, in the Mandarin Oriental Hotel. When I contacted the chef to see if the rumor was true, he started off by stating "I'm not leaving." This seeme ... More >>

Good Things in Personalized Packages: Mason Jar Pies