Beer & Cheddar Soup with a Bacon & Onion Tart Some of y’all may have already seen shots of the Turkey I prepared for Thanksgiving this year, but I also wanted to share a fantastic course I pulled together from two great recipes in Food & Wine and Saveur for the holiday.   Both [...]

Talk about incredible! The Saratoga Club at the newly opened Parm is outrageous. Chicken salad, sweet cured bacon and an herbed mayo with sautéed thyme, packed with potato chips between griddled toast. Not surprisingly, this new addition to the Torrisi Italian Specialties family is easily on par with the smoked turkey sandwich featured earlier on [...]

Sandwich is still the word of the month for April in my kitchen, so I’ve been trying out some new ideas – this one born of pork & pesto! Simply put, I baked some wide slices of slab bacon with fresh thyme sprigs at about 400 degrees in the oven, flipping halfway through to add [...]

Because it’s Friday and I love bacon.  That is all.

I served this recipe for Christmas Dinner in 2010, taking a minor spin on the version dreamed up by Thomas Keller for Williams-Sonoma (where you can find many recipes to prepare with appliances & tools purchased from the store). Simply follow all instructions/directions provided here, but substitute the following: Use 7 cups of Great Northern Beans instead of [...]

I was first introduced to Steak Au Poivre in the Summer of 2000 when swimming and training in Auckland, NZ.  After one afternoon practice, several of my teammates and I wandered through the city streets from our hotel and found ourselves at a small french restaurant, almost hidden off of an alley-like street.  Ravenous for [...]