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Aloo tikki are crisply fried potato patties–they make a great snack, appetizer or side dish, especially on cool-weather days. The aloo tikki sizzle in the pan just long enough to form a golden crust, keeping the potato on the inside tender . The recipe is below. The recipe requires that you start with already boiled [...]

    For this Video Bite, Michelle Bernstein gracefully carved out time in between three weeks in Spain and a book tour. This is one busy lady. She is chef-owner of Michy’s and Sra. Martinez. Bernstein won the James Beard Award for best chef in the South in 2007. She also hosts the PBS show, [...]

Chef Howland’s Guava Glazed Snapper Guava Glazed Snapper In this Video Bite, Chef Graham Howland demonstrates how to select and prepare fresh, local fish with a sweet guava glaze. In the video, he uses yellowtail snapper. At my dinner, I served lane snapper. His specialty is seafood. Chef Howland is now retired, but his experiences [...]

For an appetizer, John DiRocco prepared a homemade brick-oven flatbread with Venezuelan queso de mano, homegrown basil, and tomato. In this Video Bite, John demonstrates how he makes flatbread or pizza crust at home. The queso de mano was my idea. I wanted to find some kind of local cheese, and the most local version [...]

John DiRocco made refreshing kalamansi water, akin to lemonade. He grows the plant in his yard; it was a gift from his in-laws.  The kalamansi, also known as the calamondin, is popular in the Philippines.  It has an acidic citrus taste, like a cross between an orange and a lime.  John says he has seen [...]