Handmade fresh fettucini noodles are quick, 15 minutes, and easy to make. To cook the noodles al dente, i use a cast iron skillet with boiling water, instead of a huge pot with lots of water. This recipe uses heaps of garlic cloves fried in ghee butter in a second skillet, with bean sauce and oyster sauce. You can easily make these sauces and ghee at home from scratch, I posted recipes in cookpad. A tablespoon of Icelandic black caviar added to this dish makes it even more special.

Marcella Hazan’s famous recipe of one whole chicken and one whole lemon, pepper and salt. Nothing else. A true home kitchen cook with a cookbook called “Essentials of Italian cooking”.Thank you, Marcella

Harissa spice gives a delicious fresh lemon pepper flavor to chicken, and grilling plus broiling on a skewer keeps the meat juicy. You can make Harissa yourself, recipe below. Per pound of chicken, I skewer a pound of vegetables. Serves well with warm fresh potato pancakes.#GlobalApron

Tempura Battered Chicken pieces, on a bed of gingerfried Fresh pineapple cubes, tempura fried fresh garden vegetables on the side, makes a simple weekday summer meal taste special.

Tender fish and meats, like petrale sole and pork tenderloin, absorb citrus juices well and retain the fresh fruit flavors when being broiled. Oranges, grapefruits, limes, lemons all work well.

After almost 100 years, our oldest Chinese Restaurant in town went out of business. They left us this brilliantly simple recipe, ginger onion duckbreast broth and whole duck dinner. Here is how to cut the breast and the rest of the whole duck with a cleaver in 24 bite size chopstick pieces for dipping in ginger onion glaze and hot broth. In this recipe, broth is served with dinner and steamed yellow turmeric rice. Leftover broth makes delicious vietnamese duck Pho soup.#GlobalApron

My air fryer oven has a rotisserie skewer, so I can grill fresh pine apples and pork steaks together, a traditional way to make Al Pastor Pork. I pressed the marinaded pork steaks between fresh pine apple slices on the skewer to grill everything at once. The meat is marinaded with Al Pastor sauce. Delicious, here is the recipe.

This is a chicken family dinner all kids love, ( no bones !) and it only takes ten more minutes of preparation to debone and use the whole chicken and all its organs, gizzard, liver, heart. Deboned with kitchen scissors before stuffing. Delicious warm or cold. Like a giant spring chicken roll instead of a spring egg roll. Six roll dinners plus 4 soup dinners for the low price of one whole chicken with all the organs.#GlobalApron

Our California Meyer Lemons are now ripe, they make a great lemon egg sauce which is added to soup with leftover chicken meat and rice to make a full dinner meal.Before adding the egg lemon sauce, we cool the soup enough to prevent the heat from overcooking the sauce and making chinese egg drop soup instead. Served with pita bread for dipping.Topped with chopped fresh parsley, cilantro, mint or fresh fennel greens.

Quicker than take-out, no oily taste, and $2 for a big meal. Half a chicken is used to make broth, then deboned and chopped in bite size pieces, while you make a delicious thick sauce from a fresh orange, spices, honey and cornstarch. Served over sushi rice cooked in a pan with this foolproof method.

California Squid fresh from our Pacific coast, firm, white and glistening, caught overnight, they are kept fresh on ice and cleaned in the back of the trucks while the fishermen drive to market here. Sold fresh as cleaned calamari tubes and tentacles till noon, then getting frozen.Coated inside and out with rice flour and fine panko breadcrumbs, this proven recipe has the crust crisped quickly in hot oil while the fresh squid meat is left tender. Eaten warm but not overcooked.Served family style, it was wonderful to see guests fill their plates three times.

Garlic puree is pure minced whole garlic bulbs and good for a few days after thawing. Garlic paste is puree with olive oil and flaked seasalt and is good for a week after thawing. A great way to save garlic bulbs when they get soft. An ice cube has the strength of half a bulb.The ice cube tray holds 14 ice cubes, that is seven whole bulbs of garlic. The trays have covers, they stack. Good for a year in the freezer. Best for pastas, olive oil dips, garlic butter, garlic aioli and mashed potatoes.