Halibut en Papillote with Pernod

Great things come in small packages, especially when you cook en papillote. Halibut en Papillote or Halibut al Cartoccio. Both a French and an Italian method of cooking fish in an enclosed parchment paper pouch along with veggies, herbs, wine and or butter. Serves 4 The first time you have this dish, it feels like…

Tequila Flambéed Shrimp Tacos with a Pineapple-Avocado, Black Bean Salsa

There are tacos and THEN THERE are tacos! Timothy and I were talking about how we wanted to describe these tacos and all that comes to mind is “blerre lekker!!” Translated means “bloody tasty.” We’re both from South Africa and our first language is English and our second is Afrikaans, so sometimes when we want to…

Seared Scallops with a Sun dried Tomato-Corn & Bacon vinaigrette

Serves 4 Most people are familiar bacon wrapped scallops but if you’ve made it you’d know that neither was cooked properly. Because scallops take only a few minutes to cook, it always seems like the bacon, which takes longer to cook it always underdone. This recipe is the solution. The scallops are seared for a…