Fast Easy Recipes

Get creative with your recipes
As a culinary teacher, I always encourage my students to not feel they must be shackled to a recipe in order to cook well. Sure, following recipes to the iota has its place — like when your vegan granddaughter is visiting and needs baba ganoush, or when you pick up some weird root at the Asian market and must figure out what to do with it, or when you're craving pasta alla amatriciana just like ...

Megan Murphy: Radicchio fine accompaniment to fruit, nuts in salad
Lately, I seem to have taken a real liking to radicchio. Its somewhat bitter taste adds depth to lettuce salads and pairs well with many types of salad additions, such as bits of strongly flavored cheese, chopped fruit or nuts.

Vail Simply Seasonal column: Refresh winter meals with tamarind
When mid-winter produce is lackluster, I get inspired to try something new. Cima Executive Chef Michael Mayer offered a Latin-inspired, crunchy cabbage salad dressed with a light tamarind vinaigrette and studded with roasted chicken, Copyright 2012 Vail Daily. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Vail Daily Vail Simply Seasonal column ...