Hey everyone,
There’s a new featured recipe this month: Spinach Salad with Grilled Spiced Chicken, part of our theme of springtime recipes. More to come as spring rolls around, stop back for more spring recipes. If you’ve got a good one, send it in, and we’ll put it up on the site.
Or leave a comment.
Here’s another springtime recipe that we just put up: Asparagus and Tomato Salad
Enjoy!
Although I knew it was a common and popular recipe in some parts, I was surprised to hear how many people didn’t know how to make Pineapple Stuffing and were looking for the recipe. It is easy to make and tastes amazing, especially with ham glazed with some kind of pineapple glaze or sauce.
We cooked (my wife and I together) an Easter ham dinner for 15 people on Sunday and of course, we made my wife’s pineapple stuffing. The recipe is her recipe but it is the same as a few popular ones I’ve seen, so it’s been passed around quite a bit.
We make it using potato bread but the original calls for white bread, but really it is a personal preference. Potato Bread soaks up the pineapple very nicely and gives it a little extra texture, though it is filling!
The recipe calls for a 9-inch pan to be used and I recommend sticking to it if possible. If you do decide to use a bigger pan, take care not to fill the pan too high as it will not only take longer, but you risk the outside browning nicely while the inside is still very wet and undercooked. If this does happen to you, simply remove the top quarter or more and transfer it to another pan.
Due to the number of requests for it, I’ve put it up on Professional Recipes and you can grab this recipe by going here:
Of course, to go with the Pineapple Stuffing and the ham, I made a Caramel Pineapple Glaze (my own title of course) to glaze the ham and make a sauce for the guests to drizzle over their plates, garnished with, of course, pineapple slices in the sauce bowl (for anyone who loves to munch on pineapple with ham - like me!).
Take care when trying the Caramel Pineapple Glaze recipe though as making the caramel can be tricky if you don’t get the timing quite right. You can grab this recipe by going here:
Enjoy!
Hi everyone,
With the Easter holiday coming so early this year, we had to get out some Easter Recipes, especially Easter Ham Glaze and a few others coming in the next few days. Stay tuned to our latest recipes by subscribing to our RSS Feed. Or we’ve recently set up the Latest Recipes menu in the Recipes section of our site. There you can view the 7 newest additions to the site and see a button for those recipes rolling through the RSS Feed (hint: you can click on it to sign up!).
I’d also like to discuss glazing hams before the holiday officially arrives, which is a popular tradition in many households who celebrate Easter. Usually the ham is cooked to whatever family tradition passed down to the chef du jour, and is one that has been used for a long time.
While I don’t propose breaking family tradition of course, it’d be very easy to change up your style instead and throw some pizazz into that family tradition. How do you ask? Simple, we’ll show you some tried and true methods for your old favorites and some new ideas for those of you bold enough to change it up!
Searching for the Perfect Easter Ham Glaze
List of Easter Recipes: (more to come)
Easter Orange and Honey Ham Glaze
Orange Marmalade with Bourbon Glazed Ham
Coca Cola® Ham Glaze
Pineapple Ham Glaze
Saint Patrick’s Day is fast approaching and to help celebrate the holiday, we’re revamped and updated some of Professional Recipes to help celebrate the holiday!
The Featured Recipe this month is a wonderful St Pattys Day Corned Beef! Traditional, delicious and easy to make, this one is sure to be a hit!
Be sure check out the Irish Potatoes recipe. This one’s a family recipe, but I’m sure it’s the same as a few others, or very similar. They’re very easy to make and just about everybody loves em!
Normally, I’ll go out and taste some local Irish fare and have a few rounds with some family and friends as there is a good bit of Irish in my family. Ham and Cabbage, Irish Potatoes, and of course this year I am making the Corned Beef and Cabbage! More on that to come.
So come check out all of our Gourmet Recipes and be sure to stop by for more site updates and more recipes!
Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!
There are many people who enjoy cooking and working with food. From resourceful parents who can whip up a meal in 30 minutes with whatever happens to be in the fridge, to the person who simply likes to dabble with different combinations of food and create new dishes. Many of these people are looking for new ideas to try or simply wish to improve their cooking skills to impress guests, friends and family, or impress their date with a fabulous meal.
The difference between the home cook and the gourmet chef really comes down to knowledge and experience and oftentimes practice makes perfect (especially when it comes to food). How many times have you or someone you know attempted to make a dish only to have it taste different than what you expected or not look the way you expected or simply be over or undercooked? It happens to even the best of gourmet chefs from time to time. Even the pros (you just don’t see their mistakes or they know how to fix a mistake quickly).
So how does the average person learn to cook like a gourmet?
I’ve created a new “lens” on Squidoo entitled How to Cook Gourmet Style that will show different things to learn, offer tips and how to’s on cooking like a gourmet and more. You can find this lens and other lens that we create by going here:
How to Cook Gourmet Style: 10 Things Every Aspiring Gourmet Chefs Should Learn
I’ll be creating different lens on gourmet cooking as time goes on and I’ll be posting the different lens here, but all will be indexed on the Professional Recipes Squidoo Page so you can check out all of our lens. I’ll also be adding the lens to the Gourmet Cooking section on Professional Recipes also so that you can simply subscribe to our blog for updates, or bookmark the Gourmet Cooking section on professionalrecipes.com and check out our articles as well.
Enjoy!
I came across this great link about making girl scout cookies at home and I wanted to share it. The woman, Nicole, took the descriptions of the cookies and did her best to recreate them from this and her memory.
This one is for making the Samoas cookies in particular but there are links to some of the other famous kinds (like Thin Mints!!!).
Enjoy!
“Just the thought of hosting a dinner party can turn some people into a quivering mess, and many would not even consider it, but hosting a dinner party doesn’t have to be difficult. The trick is to plan ahead, have as much as you can done well in advance and to keep it as simple as possible.”
This great article comes to us from our friends at only-cookware.com. Here is the link for the article on Professional Recipes: Tips for Hosting a Dinner Party
If you haven’t yet, take a peek and read the article. It does have some great organizational ideas!
If you’d like to comment on this article or discuss, please feel free to leave comment here: Hosting a Dinner Party Comments
“Cooking is something that a good majority of the population does on a daily basis but most people do not even consider that the cookware they are using may also have a major affect on the outcome of their meals.
Using the right cookware for the job can turn an adequate cook into a great cook. It is amazing how a simple change in the type of cookware can dramatically impact the overall result.
There is so much information available online about the many types and materials used in your everyday cookware, so take the time to do some research and think about the type of cookware that will suit your circumstances in regards to the number of people you cook for, they type of cooking you do, and always a major consideration, your budget.
It is generally better to buy fewer quality items that will last you for years even though they may be a little more expensive initially. The quality and the results are well worth you paying a bit more.
Here is some information that may assist you when setting out to make those all important purchases for some of the items to aid you in your cooking”:
The Right Cookware for the Job
This article highlights the different types of cookware available and what type to use for specific cooking styles and techniques. Very informative. You can read the entire article by clicking the link above.
If you wish to comment or discuss this article, please feel free to leave a comment here: The Right Cookware Comments.
Using the new account at Tumblr, we’ve created what is known as a “tumblelog” at professionalrecipes.tumblr.com.
A “tumblelog” is page much like a regular blog only that all posts are vertical where the latest post is the first one shown and you move through the log by navigating back. With the newest content at the top, we thought it would be a great idea to create a Professional Recipes RSS Feed. Now you can get the latest recipes added to the site via our Tumblelog right to your news reader or browser.
To sign up simply go to our Tumblelog and scroll to the bottom and click the Subscribe via RSS link.
Hello everyone,
I’m proud to “officially” announce the launch of www.professionalrecipes.com, or simply Professional Recipes. At 12:01 am on February 1st, 2008 the new version of the website launched, but there is much work to be done still.
I wanted to develop a content-rich website that offers gourmet and homemade recipes, information on cooking including articles and “how-to’s”, allow visitors to submit their own recipes, cooking tips and provide a place for interaction and comments.
We’ve included links to submit articles and content pages to Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. Feel free to Digg pages or bookmark them for future reference.
The site features:
- Featured Recipe - a recipe chosen by myself to be displayed prominently on the site and allow it to be voted on by visitors. Ratings will be included with each recipe in our index to give visitors an idea of what others thought of it.
- Great Articles and How-to’s - information on cooking, choose the right cookware, wonderful How-To’s and more.
- Submit Your Recipe - submit your own recipe to be included in our index or as a candidate for the Featured Recipe.
- Discussion and Comments - utilize this blog to comment on posts, articles, the Featured Recipe, or the Community Project.
- Gourmet and Homemade Recipes - browse our recipe index for great recipes, which we’ll be adding to constantly as time goes on.
I hope that you enjoy the new site and continue to visit and stop back for more great cooking or recipe ideas!
