Editor’s note: This is the first in a series the Aiken Standard will run periodically on locally-owned restaurants around Aiken County. To have your restaurant included, email Stephanie at sturner@aikenstandard.com.
Summer is coming, and strawberries are a must on anyone’s menu. Here are some recipes to try out on family and friends or to make for Mom this Mother’s Day:
Today, let’s look at a cooking technique that sounds a bit intimidating but really is quite easy – cooking en papillote (in a bag). This easy cooking method lends itself well to warm weather cooking and the season’s...
Q: It used to be forbidden to cut lettuce with a knife. Only tearing by hand or cutting with a plastic knife was acceptable. But now I see TV chefs regularly chopping lettuce with a regular knife. What is responsible for this change in thinking?
Here’s a Tuscan red that will roll with any summer menu. “Tre” is a blend of three grapes (mostly Sangiovese, with 10 percent each Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon) from Brancaia’s three estates in Tuscany. The 2010, easygoing but...
I opened this bottle, poured out a glass of the deep garnet Syrah and got a whiff of sun-baked hillside, dark berries and wild herbs. The taste is redolent of spice and blackberries, smoke and something brambly and wild. A close but less glamorous cousin of...
Last week was a fun one to be a caterer in the Augusta area. The Masters always finds me cooking for corporate clients and the menus are always fabulous! One night we had filet mignon on the menu. It had been a little while since I’d last...
Q: What is the description for a beef filet? I recently bought some filets and when I got home I had to trim quite a lot of fat and silver skin from them. Is this normal?
Question: I recently tried a recipe for a quick version of cioppino. I doubled the recipe and made a large quantity. Will it keep in the refrigerator? Or could I freeze it?
ORLANDO, Fla. — Even though children’s nutrition has received lots of attention the past few years, you’re still more likely to find chicken fingers and fries on kids’ menus than wraps and salads.
