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A new creation from my kitchen. Salmon and Potatoes Cakes. As I was planning a very simple rendition of our dinner, mashed potatoes and bake salmon, the idea of incorporating the two came along and , Why not? The result a new dinner . Potatoes and salmon prepared in perfect harmony, complimenting each other. A […]
Last night dinner challenged all record on preparing of our dinner: under 15 minutes. An 8 oz. fillet, butterflied , seared with a shadow of salt on the skillet, and placed over a bed of wilted spinach. Cooking time: 10 minutes. Ok… I do like my meat medium rare… Bon Appetit!! Giangi
It has been so long since my last posting. Wonderful events happened in our lives, the most important one was our son first communion. Family was in town for the occasion and that was wonderful. The dust has finally settled and back in my kitchen with a bit of creativity. Last night we wanted something […]
We live next to wonderful neighbors that this year have started their own vegetables garden. As you know, we live in Phoenix and gardening can be, for lack of better word, a bit of a challenge. Not only our summer heat is cruel to our garden, but we have an abundance of bunnies that adore [...]
Having fun in the kitchen again and this time with steak and tomatoes. Something new and super easy to make. The sauce of the tomatoes with the juicy steak was a good combination and yet very light. Taste the seasoning of the tomatoes. It has to have a bit of a tangy taste to it Bon Appetit!!! [...]
It feels as we are on a fish cooking series, but I had a request from my son therefore I could not say no to it. As I had prawns in the freezer, fresh tomatoes and spinach in the refrigerator, dinner was ready rather quickly. As I was creating the recipe as I was going [...]
Sunday night has always been a special night in my family, and now that the weather is permitting, we enjoy eating a bit early and taking advantage to take the dogs out for a walk. Last night dinner was a bit of a surprise for me as I had in mind to create to a [...]
I was selected and honored today with the “Foodista’s Food Blog of the Day” for my blog post for Chicken Gorgonzola Spinach. The recipe will be featured on the Foodista homepage all day. I have reposted the recipe below for all of you to enjoy. Thank you to every one for all your support, I [...]
After a wonderful vacation, settling back to our routine has been hard. I guess our body and mind are still basking in the “dolce far niente” mode of life. After a great busy day, settling in my kitchen was relaxing. I had pulled out some wonderful chicken thigh to prepare them with orzo pasta and peas. [...]
After a wonderful vacation, settling back to our routine has been hard. I guess our body and mind are still basking in the “dolce far niente” mode of life. After a great busy day, settling in my kitchen was relaxing. I had pulled out some wonderful chicken thigh to prepare them with orzo pasta and [...]
As we celebrated Easter away from home, cooking can be a bit of a challenge when working with someone else appliances, or lack of. As our son has his Spring break this week, we are spending it at the mountains. After a wonderful relaxing day, dinner was upon us. Rack of lamb was waiting for me [...]
From our family to your family we wish you a very Happy Easter filled with love and wonderful memories. Giangi
An impromptu dinner: Orange Roughy with capers, shallots and wine butter sauce. Really nothing to it and yet a wonderful sauce that asks for a piece of bread to enjoy with the sauce. A green salad with a lemon vinaigrette, a very simple dinner on Good Friday evening. Bon Appetit! Giangi ORANGE ROUGHY WITH CAPERS, [...]
Trying something new in my kitchen is always exciting. Last night after what felt an eternity of deciding what to prepare for dinner, I finally stumbled into my kitchen and started cooking. We were not particularly hungry and we all decided that pasta was it. Carbonara was my choice, easy is all I was looking [...]
Scaloppine al Marsala is one of the easiest meals to prepare, and yet so intimidating to some. Growing up my mom and nonna used to prepare them often. I remember entering the kitchen and loved being surrounded by the wonderful aroma of Marsala. We always had them with mashed potatoes, a must as a volcano [...]
Good Morning Everyone!! I have a guest writer today on Giangi’s Kitchen, Kendra T. Kendra and I share the same passions: Food, Travel and Family. We love food, we love to cook and enjoy writing about it. We both love to travel and have been fortunate to visit so many beautiful places in the world. [...]
Sunday night is always special at our house and with a past week filled with non stop activities, a quiet sit down dinner was welcome and needed. The New York Steak with Wine Sauce is a very old recipe, a staple on every French cook books. Easy to prepare, do not let the wordy explanation [...]
Tired of the eating our staple chicken cutlets, I decided to give it a fresh look and made chicken Parmigiana last night instead. A couple of spoonful of tomato sauce, a staple in my refrigerator, over the chicken, adding a slice of fresh mozzarella over it, a new dinner was prepared. Chicken breast pounded thin [...]
Our first Corned beef was a great success. As it turns out I do own an Irish Cookbook. Yes, I do. The Country Cooking of Ireland by Coleman Andrews is a beautiful cook book. Lavish pictures, great in details recipes explanations, wonderful anecdotes. I choose to make Corned Beef with Parsley Sauce, Colcannon , Cabbage and [...]
Good Morning Everyone! In Honor of the celebration of St. Patrick’s Day I will prepare the traditional Corned Beef Brisket with potatoes, carrots and cabbage for dinner today. Not having a family recipe to share with all of you, I will have to relaying on wonderful books to guide me with a recipe. This will [...]
Wanting to make something different for dinner was on my mind all day. I picked up several of my cook books but I nothing jumped at me or stimulated my taste buds. As I am on my car on my way to pick up my son, dinner was formulating in my mind and the idea [...]
As my passion for cook books continues, my friends are adding to it. At Christmas I received this beautiful book from a friend that she purchased for me during one of her trips in New Orleans. “ Crescent City Cooking” by Susan Spicer is just a wonderful book filled with mouth-watering recipes as well as [...]
Beautiful quiet night, pasta night. This recipe is one of those recipes that we forget that we have, and as soon as we sit down and start eating it we ask ourselves why we do not make it more often. Simplicity at his best and simple ingredients, zucchini, pasta, onion, parmesan cheese and eggs. Do [...]
I loved the spinach Gorgonzola filling adapted from “The Great Meat Cookbook” by Bruce Aidells, so much couple that I decided to make a very small batch for last night chicken. Placed it under the skin, seared on the pan and then roasted in the oven, turned out a very tasty and tender chicken. Bell [...]
Peoples have “writer’s block”, last night I had “kitchen block”. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to make, even less had any suggestions shared with me. I was on my own with my refrigerator. Luckily for me, Pete at Personal Gourmet Foods keeps my freezer well stacked with all sorts of wonderful [...]
Sunday night is always a special night at our house. As we bring to a close a week, we start piecing together the week ahead. What we need to do and what we would like to accomplish is discussed. A comfort food kind of night. We are also been enjoying beautiful weather and as the [...]
We had French toast for breakfast this morning and my son could not stop eating them declaring that they were the best he ever had. Mind you, I have not changed a thing to them, expect forgetting to spread some butter over when done. He asked to write a blog about it. So here I [...]
A nice plate of pasta is always welcome, adding sausages to it, makes it even more fun. Last night we just did that. Sausage pasta with peas and tomatoes sauce. Something new as we seldom have mild Italian sausages for dinner, more of a breakfast enjoyment. I left the casing on and cut the sausages [...]
Just back from a very short trip and first thing I was requested was steak. Instead of my typical roasted potatoes to go along, I decided to make baked potatoes instead. Long time ago I discovered that if I poke the potatoes and spread butter and kosher salt all over the potatoes skin, the potatoes [...]
After the snow and hail commotion that we had two days ago in Phoenix, which did not last long of course and was beautiful to see and experience, yesterday quiet and cozy dinner prepared under 30 minutes was the end to a perfect day. I had some left over roasted chicken, store-bought will be perfect, [...]
After a wonderful four days weekend, we are back settled in our routine and we looked forward to enjoying a homemade dinner. And of course, without thinking about it twice, steak was the request in our household. I tried a simple yet succulent sauce with our steaks. Whiskey and cream sauce has been around for [...]
I am always asked what is our favorite drink. I guess the answer depend of the occasion. We always try to have some wine with our dinner. I really enjoy red wines, but sometimes however we are in the mood of something different. Throughout the years I have collected a couple of drinks that we [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!! As we always celebrate Valentine’s Day with a dinner with our son the night before the actual celebratory night, last night I decided to add a drink to the mix. Having fresh mangoes I had fun creating my version of a Mango Martini. Pretty smooth and tasty. As I was creating [...]
Love chicken. To me chicken is like a painter canvas, the opportunities are endless on how to prepare it. Last time Pete from Personal Gourmets Foods stopped by I purchased some boneless chicken. Something new that I was hesitant at first to try, but had to. What a great concept when your time in the [...]
Happy 3rd Birthday Giangi’s Kitchen!! What a wonderful journey it has been!! It all started with my wonderful friends asking me “What’s for dinner tonight?”. Now Giangi’s Kitchen is read in 112 countries in the world, from Mongolia to Mauritius Island, via Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka to South Africa. The Unites States, Europe, China, [...]
Browsing through my cook books I came across this wonderful recipe from Gourmet cookbook. Salmon with sesame bok choy and spinach. Very flavorful dish. I prepared it with Jasmine rice alongside. I suggest having every ingredient prepared and ready to go prior to starting the salmon, as this recipe will only take less than 10 minutes to [...]
Steak was requested last night. I had some wonderful New York steaks from our favorite place, Personal Gourmets Foods. The balsamic reduction is an adaptation from Gourmet cookbook. The recipe is very easy to follow and fast to prepare. The sweet syrupy consistency of the reduction is a great balance with the piquant of the [...]
Something new from my kitchen last nigh: Gorgonzola Risotto. We love risotto, we love gorgonzola, the combination of the two was wonderful. The recipe was an adaptation from the cookbook “ Gourmet Today”. The recipe requires sweet gorgonzola. I had a bit of both in the house last night, I am French and we always [...]
Happy February everyone!! It has been a long month since I sat down and wrote about our nightly dinners. We had had plenty of dinner, just time has not been in my favor and with each passing day, another day went by that I did not write. I really miss it. Last night dinner was [...]
Love Foodie PenPal. Actually I really love to receive a package in the mail filled with wonderful food surprises. This month my package was from Lauren. Lauren lives in Connecticut and she is very dedicated to a healthy lifestyle. Lauren mom’s is from Porto Rico, Lauren has enjoyed growing up a very strong Spanish influence in [...]
Happy New Year! Thank you to all of you for your great support that you have given me all year long. May 2013 be a year filled with love and happiness, With love Giangi
Not having all the ingredients on hand last night I just improvised a sauce for the orange roughy. Simple, fast and tasty, a must try at this time of the year. Green salad with yellow and red pepper and quick potatoes gratin. Easy side dishes. Bon Appetit!! Giangi Tonight’s December 27, 2012 dinner: Orange roughy with [...]
Love Tiramisu`! This wonderfully easy to prepare dessert that leave you coming back for more. I prepared a large dish to enjoy with our Christmas dinner and now we have left over. And, yes, I do not mind having leftover tiramisu any days of the week. From our table to your table, enjoy!! Giangi Tiramisu [...]
On Christmas day it was the first time that I ever prepared prime rib. As Pete was delivering my meat right before Christmas, he suggested I try to make prime rib for the holidays. Great suggestions and was looking forward to try a new, for me, cut of meat. I started looking for recipes and [...]
As I was on a mission yesterday to find chicken livers for the pate`, I decided to purchase a bit more so I could prepare chicken liver salad. The first time I had Chicken liver salad it was on the South of France in a tiny little bistro. As soon as I took the first [...]
I did it!!! Yes, I did!! I made my Chicken liver parfait with apple and Calvados gelee. The recipes was given to me by my friend Eliane from La Serviette Blanche . Easy to follow and not as intimidating as it may seems. The result is WOW!! Devine, decadent and thankful that I am not in a diet… [...]
Christmas is just around the corner. All the decorations are up, all the presents wrapped and under the tree. Cookies are almost all baked and now I can start concentrating on our dinners. Yes, dinners, we have started the tradition years ago to enjoy a very romantic Christmas eve dinner, and a candlelight Christmas Day [...]
