Chef Michelle Bernstein at Saks Fashion’s Night Out

While fashion was the main attraction this past Friday at Fashion’s Night Out in the Bal Harbour Shops, the food was also something to talk about. Celebrity Chef Michelle Bernstein traipsed on over to Saks Fifth Avenue, whipping up some small tasty bites for shoppers. Of course many shoppers didn’t…

Julia & Jacques Recipes For Provençal Tomatoes

Yesterday, we highlighted Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home cookbook. Today we share two recipes for Provençal Tomatoes — one from each star culinarian. The book is filled with useful tidbits of advice. Here are just a couple culled from the Provence recipes, which follow the jump.Julia on using a…

Chef John Critchley’s Miami Spice Watermelon Salad, Part One

Last night at Whole Foods Coral Gables, Chef John Critchley broke down some of the dishes from Area 31’s Miami Spice menu. Of course, he added that deft touch that only decades of practice can bring. However, the recipes are relatively simple for the home cook to replicate.Critchley prepared a…

BBQ Recipe for Labor Day: Smoked Brisket, Asiago, and Jalapeno Pizza

​Try this twist on traditional barbecue fare from John Rivers, pit master and owner of 4 Rivers Smokehouse BBQ, the Orlando-based brand that makes some of our favorite super smoky sauces. (Find ’em at Epicure in Sunny Isles if you are out and about this weekend.) Directions: 1) Prepare pizza dough for…

Beer-Can Chicken Recipe for Labor Day

Have you ever made beer-can chicken? If you haven’t, you’re missing out on the juiciest grilled chicken you’ve ever tasted and on a few good laughs from looking at your bird perched atop a beer can on the grill. It’s also incredibly easy to make, which makes it the perfect…

Labor Day Bonus: Ten Recipes From Finalists in $100,000 Burger Contest

Sutter Home is celebrating the 20th anniversary of its Build a Better Burger contest by holding its high-stakes burger cook-off on September 23, at Collins Park in South Beach. The prize money this year has doubled to $100,000 for the most creative, best-tasting burger — but you are too late…

STK Miami: DJ Obscene Dinner Tunes

You’re at STK Steakhouse on the Beach grooving to the music. The waiter brings out your bone-in rib steak, done medium rare, just the way you like it. You sit down to dig in when you hear your favorite 80’s tune and then you’re on your feet again, dancing, the…

Creamed Corn Recipe from Red the Steakhouse

This is part three of our interview with Red, the Steakhouse’s chef/partner Peter Vauthy. Read part one of the interview here and part two here.”I remember creamed corn as a kid being an awful thing,” Vauthy said. So perhaps that was the impetus behind his creation of a rich, delicious…

Celebrate Alligator Hunting Season With Crocked Gator Recipe

Every summer since 1988, the state of Florida has opened many of its lakes, rivers and swamps to a limited-time public alligator hunt. This year’s hunt began August 15 and continues through September 12.Also, since it is the start of football season and all, and because I’m an FSU grad…

Recipe for Michael D’Andrea’s Peas & Macaroni

​Read parts one and two of our interview with Michael D’Andrea here.As promised, here is Michael D’Andrea’s recipe for peas and macaroni. Now don’t get all pissy that he’s making you use his particular ingredients; he’s entitled (and you can find the pasta and sauce any time at Macaluso &…

Teena’s Pride CSA Takes Locally Grown Produce to Your Table

When I tell Teena Borek that one of the challenges I faced when I participated in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) was preparing all the food in each weekly share before it perished, she enthusiastically tells me about her latest discovery. “Every CSA member should have a juicer,” she says. Borek…

Sakaya Kitchen to Roll Out Dim Ssam Food Truck

“Munch and move on” will be Sakaya Kitchen’s new creed come September 12, when chef/owner Richard Hales plans to launch his Dim Ssam à Gogo food truck. Expect the same prepared-from-scratch Asian food that has made Sakaya a midtown Miami hit — natural beef, poultry, and pork; organic dairy; local…

Ice Trays That Think Outside the Cube

August in Miami can be unbearably hot. Sipping something cold full of ice cubes seems like the best alternative to cooling down. No need to settle for a standard square ice cube tray anymore. Here are a few of our favorite ways to express yourself through ice!Ice InvadersFor the true…

Cloned Coffee Cooler Recipes From Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks

In 1987, Todd Wilbur of Orange County, California, started his Top Secret Recipes website, on which he dissects well-known name-brand foods and creates original recipes that clone their appeal. The site has been “undergoing construction” for quite some time, but the recipe section remains — with everything from Aunt Jemima’s…

Hani’s Organic Cheeses and His Fried Haloumi

Hani Khouri did not grow up on a farm, yet today he looks right at home herding his 17 Nubian goats with the shepherd hook he carries. You would never know that three years ago, Hani and his wife Maria Lee led the life of expats residing in places such…

Fried Cheese Curds = Midwestern Mozzarella Sticks

Wisconsin is known for cheese, but unless you’ve been there or anywhere in the Upper Midwest, you probably have not had the sinful pleasure of eating fried cheese curds. These hot little numbers are made from the solid parts of soured milk, or basically young cheddar cheese in its natural, random shape…

Sea Bass Ceviche with Salad From Norman’s 180

Since Norman Van Aken is doing a 180 by coming back to Coral Gables, partnering in the kitchen with his son and a fresh-faced Phillip Bryant, and putting local sourcing at the top of the priority list, we thought we’d mix things up a bit and start his three-part interview…

Garbanzos Fritos Conchita Style

After perusing the mecca of the Hispanic pantry at Conchita Brands recently, short order got the urge to cook up some traditional Latin food. So we asked Sixto Ferro Jr. for his “quick and dirty” recipe for a family favorite, “Garbanzo’s Fritos.” This literally translates to fried chickpeas although they…

Is This a Big Steamin’ Bowl of Miami Horse Meat?

A new Florida law makes it an offense punishable by one year in prison to traffic in horse meat. That, and several arrests and the destruction of a whole freakin’ horse-killing neighborhood have made it extremely difficult to buy horse meat in Miami-Dade County– as undercover cops will complain.  …