Elie, Author at Oven Dried Tomatoes

Le Ratatouille

Summer is winding down (sure it is October, but this is Houston…summer goes all the way to November sometimes) and the summer produce is really […]

Almost more than any other Lebanese dish, I crave Kibbeh Nayeh the most and immediately request that my mom or grandmother make a plate of this […]

I have a lot of cookbooks. By some measures too many but compared to others really not that much. If a book adds one or […]

It’s not often that I get to capture a season, a moment in time or a childhood memory in a dish that I created. This […]

There really is no shortage of reports on the web about The French Laundry and it’s food. I’m sure many are very thorough and detailed, […]

Yeah, foam is a crazy new fad. Afterall, no chef was making any food with “foam” ten or 50 years ago. Right? Well, no. Wrong. […]

A week before our much awaited dinner at The French Laundry (I’ll post something about that at some point…hopefully soon) I wanted to make the […]

Francisco Migoya from the CIA (the Culinary Institute of America, not the other CIA) is a superb pastry chef and judging from his books, an […]

I’m still working on my wild duck cooking skill and the best result I’ve gotten so far is through removing the breasts and legs and […]

This dish came about because of the edible stones from Mugaritz that I posted about recently. I did not want to spend a good bit […]