Mardi Gras Recipes
Recipes

How to Make a Roux

One of the things I love about cooking is the mystery, how a handful of unrelated ingredients merge and create a new, wonderful thing. Oil + Vinegar = Vinaigrette. Cream + Melted Chocolate = Ganache. […]

Grits vs polenta
Tips

Grits vs Polenta

Grits and polenta are both dried corn. When cooked, both are also referred to as cornmeal mush. They’re each cooked until they’re thick and creamy and are like a blank canvas for toppings and stir-ins […]

Coconut Chicken & Shrimp Soup
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Coconut Chicken & Shrimp Soup

I had the best Thai food of my life…in Paris…over the Thanksgiving holiday. Go figure, right? We’d spent the day strolling the rues, treated our daughter to a very hip art exhibit then headed out […]

Shrimp & Grits with Champagne Cream Sauce
Entrées

Shrimp & Grits with Champagne Cream Sauce

Watch Chef Danielle share this and the rest of her New  Year’s Eve champagne menu on Let’s Talk Live! Cheesy grits, plump shrimp drizzled with a creamy champagne vanilla sauce combine for a new twist […]