Notes about Recipes in this book

• Smoked trout spread

  • hillsboroks on March 24, 2020

    This is delicious and delightfully easy to make. My husband has been bringing trout home from a local lake and smoking them and I was looking for a new way to serve the smoked trout and landed on this recipe. We don't like too much heat so I left out the Cajun seasoning and just added a bit of white pepper and Tabasco sauce to suit our tastes. We had to skip the green onion and added finely minced celery and sweet red pepper because that is what I had on hand due to the quarantine but the results were fabulous on a cracker.

  • aeader on November 29, 2021

    This was so good! Next time would add a little more cajun seasoning and hot sauce (used Sriracha). I think my cajun seasoning was too old. Really delicious on a cracker. Note that the cream cheese needs to be at room temp. I mixed by hand after flaking up the fish as I removed the skin and bones. No need to bother with the mixer.

• Grilled grass-fed rib-eye steaks with balsamic-caper vinaigrette

  • nicolepellegrini on February 06, 2021

    An excellent and easy way to prepare rib-eye steaks, especially thin-cut ones. I loved the flavor of the vinaigrette and served the steak over spinach greens to not let it go to waste.

• Oven-baked chicken breasts with lemon-mustard arugula salad

  • ssdrabek on March 22, 2013

    YUM so good everyone loved it! No need to premarinate!

• Arctic char with king trumpet mushrooms, fingerlings, and Meyer lemon butter sauce

  • babyfork on November 12, 2015

    Made this for Dan's birthday and it was delicious. Julia Child would love this one...tons of butter and even a bit of cream! The market was out of fresh chives, so I used some scallion greens instead. This is a good one for dinner guests because you can prep everything ahead of time. Then just rewarm the veggies and butter sauce as you cook the fish. Loved this. The only thing I might change is to go less tart with the butter sauce. Not sure if the work of cutting the lemon segments was necessary. Could just add Meyer lemon juice to the sauce to taste next time.

• Roasted sweet potato salad with red bell pepper

  • GiselleMarie on March 16, 2021

    This is good. The sweet potatoes didn’t particularly benefit from the peppers and onions, although the combined ingredients looked lovely in the salad bowl. I thought the different flavors would blend better than they did, but I served this with French pork pie (Tourtiere) and it was a good accompaniment.