by Julie du Pont | Aug 11, 2012 | Main
Just a little over a week ago, I returned from a rather eclectic vacation, where we toured a variety of coastal towns on the eastern seaboard, including Sag Harbor, New York. When we arrived in Sag Harbor that morning (now about 12 days ago), I was about 4 days into...
by Julie du Pont | Aug 6, 2012 | Main, Salad
So all the props go to Ina Garten for this recipe. But it is so good, it is worth writing about even if I had nothing to do with it’s creation. There is something about the combination of orzo, fresh basil, roasted eggplant, roasted peppers and feta that is so...
by Julie du Pont | Aug 2, 2012 | Main
Sometime about a year ago after we’d settled into life in the suburbs (sigh), we discovered cedar planks. You can find them almost anywhere these days — Costco, Home Depot, your local fish store. You just have to look for them. Now the key to cedar...
by Julie du Pont | Jul 23, 2012 | Main
A couple of years ago, my sister and brother in-law introduced us to what they have coined “Beer Butt Chicken.” You can find a variety of recipes for this style of chicken online (boringly referred to as Beer Can Chicken) and Bobby Flay even sells his own...
by Julie du Pont | Jul 16, 2012 | Main
Flank steak is a consistent favorite in the du Pont household because it takes about 2 minutes to throw some olive oil, soy sauce, salt and pepper on it and another 8-10 minutes to grill. I am partial to a particular soy sauce that we find in a Japanese market on...
by Julie du Pont | Jul 16, 2012 | Main, Week Night
Sometimes cooking simple is the best –particularly on evenings where all you want to do is collapse into your couch. On exactly this type of evening, I grabbed a pork tenderloin at Trader Joe’s, opened my spice cabinet and invented my own special dry rub...
