Binny's Blog

A modern riff on the classic Tuscan bread salad, panzanella, is designed specifically to delight all you home gardeners and mavens of farmers markets. A bright, light, fresh but umami laden salad course is built for outdoor dining or summer parties.

Caponata is a signature dish of Sicily. It’s a slightly sweet and sour mixture of vegetables akin to France’s Ratatouille or Spain’s Pisto Manchego. It can be eaten on bruschetta, as an appetizer or as a side for fish or chicken.

The Demo Kitchen digs corn. In fact, we obsess about it at this time of year. Our Corn Pudding recipe highlights fresh corn in a sweet southern side dish, perfectly suited to accompany anything you may be pulling off the grill.

The Demo Kitchen has eaten fried green tomatoes across the southern United States, and we love them. We teamed these improved FGTs with a creamy remoulade and a fresh corn relish that takes advantage of the summer’s bounty. By dressing the relish with balsamic vinegar and adding a little Parmigiano-Reggiano to the breading we created a kind of Charleston by way of Emilia-Romagna dish.

Here is a really simple dish to add to your midsummer grilling repertoire that takes no time and packs in loads of seasonal flavor. Firm, meaty swordfish is grilled over charcoal and smokey rosemary sprigs then dressed up with an explosively flavorful relish of garden-fresh tomatoes and olives.

Yes, we did it! We married two great Midwestern burger traditions, added a little French savoir faire and came up with this buttery, beefy and cheesy thruple served up on a pillowy bun.

There are few traditional American foods that rival BBQ when it comes to Fourth of July celebrations. What we have here is in that Western North Carolina tradition, referred to as either Piedmont or Lexington style pulled pork. If you have never had it, you are in for a real treat.

What could be more pleasant than a lobster roll on a warm sunny afternoon? This is a lightly dressed, chilled lobster salad served on a warm butter toasted bun, making it a decadent but refreshingly cool summer sandwich.

This Father’s Day, indulge the Bourbon loving carnivore lurking within your mild-mannered Dad with this impressive grilled pork chop slathered with luscious Bourbon glaze.

It is the beginning of summer and the long-awaited return of strawberry season in the Midwest, which is reason enough to celebrate. If you feel the need for another excuse to make this perfectly rustic summer dessert, June 14 is National Strawberry Shortcake Day. But who needs excuses when it comes to strawberry shortcake? It is THE dessert you should be serving to put an exclamation point on every June cookout and picnic you host.