by Eat Naked Kitchen | Sep 28, 2022 | Recipes, Sauces-and-dressings
A few weeks ago, I was looking for ingredients for a delicious salad a friend had made that I wanted to reproduce. One of the ingredients she’d used in the dressing was “Chipotles in Adobo Sauce”. I remember this well from my vegetarian days and hadn’t purchased these...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Jul 7, 2022 | Kitchen-School, Mains, Recipes, Sauces-and-dressings, Sides, Snacks, Snacks-Savory
Salads have come far from the iceberg lettuce, tomato and vinaigrette days of yesteryear. As a child, I wouldn’t have anything to do with salads. My “salad” was eating a carrot. Now ask me my favorite item to make, and I’ll say salad dressings. I love a good salad. By...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | May 25, 2022 | Recipes, Sauces-and-dressings
Summer is right around the corner. Time to clean the grill and get your sauce on. Nothing sings of summer more than the laughter of children playing outside and the smell of a barbecue. I grew up eating BBQ and must admit one of my favorite comfort foods is BBQ pork...
by Chef James | Nov 6, 2018 | Recipes, Sauces-and-dressings
I remember having a discussion with Margaret when she was just starting to write her first book, Eat Naked about what “eating naked” means. Many of you may not know this, but initially she saw this concept as being sauce-free. Naked as naked can be. I...
by Chef James | Oct 4, 2018 | Kitchen-School, Knife-skills, Recipes, Sauces-and-dressings
As a chef there are skills I learned early in my career (almost 15 years ago!) that I use nearly everyday. Working with herbs is one of those skills. It’s easy for me to take these skills for granted. Admittedly I assume these are practices that most everyone...
by Eat Naked Kitchen | Jun 6, 2018 | Kitchen-School, Recipes, Sauces-and-dressings, Snacks
Have you ever sliced into the most perfect avocado, used some of it, only to come back later to a hard, brown, useless mess? There’s nothing more tragic than a wasted avocado. Okay, there’s LOTS more tragic than a wasted avocado, but still… perfect avocados are...