When contestants for the upcoming series of The Next Food Network Star were announced, she was labeled the 'stay at home mom.'
Indeed, the Keller resident tends to four young children--which, of course, means cooking three meals a day, just about every day of the week. Producers for the show apparently found something in her approach to balancing dishes for kids and adults, budgeting and making a good dinner.
D'Arabian has traveled quite a bit, too. And she knows how to tweak standard famil
Pig's head tamales?Well, yes. Robb Walsh notes in his Tex-Mex cookbook that traditional emporiums use pig's heads as their base meat when making their husky creations. The head is boiled until the meat and lard cook away, then the broth is used to moisten the masa harina (corn meal infused with lime) before the pork and lard are whipped together until fluffy. Finally, mixture is wrapped into masa.Walsh goes on to note that some tamale-makers use the easier-to-handle pork butts. In any case, the
After 14 years on the Food Network and a small shelf full of cookbooks bearing his name, Florence is a true celebrity chef.
But now he makes baby food. Yes, the man People called the "sexiest chef alive," host of Food 911, How to Boil Water and now Tyler's Ultimate recently started a line of organic purees for infants He will be at the Plano location of Central Market tomorrow (March 17) from 3:30 p.m.-5 p.m. to meet fans and introduce the stuff.
Well, why not? He has a line of cookware, af
Chiles rellenos, Emeril-stylePoblano peppers or Anaheim?
When making chiles rellenos, the chef must first consider which pepper might better serve his or her vision of the completed dish. Indeed, they are similar and both are widely used, but tasting reveals subtle but noticeable differences. The leaner Anaheim pepper is actually American in origin, specifically New Mexico by way of California, and its flavor is often more delicate--which some might argue serves as a better canvas for the
​Loft 610 Urban Restaurant and Lounge recently named Chef Tre Wilcox their new executive chef--and announced plans to open a second concept driven by the popular cook.Yes, popular: You might know him as the former Chef de Cuisine at the five-star Dallas eatery Abacus, and he was on season three of a little known, hardly at all talked about show called Top Chef. Oh, you've heard of it? He also helped the Rathbun brothers take down Bobby Flay on Iron Chef, but believe it or not, winning wasn't
