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Delicious Dishes for Every Season: Spring

Taste all the freshness of spring flavors, produce, and recipes-all without the box subscription.
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Celebrate the flavors of the spring as our renowned Culinary Institute of America chefs bring you five delicious recipes, which are perfect for the season.

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Bill Briwa

Don't waste any time wishing you were a better taster. Put your effort into becoming a better taster through focused attention and curiosity every time you prepare, season, and eat food. This skill set is really foundational.

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So many people are interested in learning how to bake, but they’re intimidated because they think that it is either too complicated or scientific. The truth is baking can be a lot of fun. It’s not that complicated and if you master just a few basic techniques, that’s really all you need to know to get started. 

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Tortilla Española and Sherry

01: Tortilla Española and Sherry

A tradition of Mediterranean small dishes exists all around the Mediterranean region, which is perfect for light dining fare during the spring. Among the most well-known are tapas from Spain, typically enjoyed as separate from a meal and with sherry. Join Chef Briwa as he demonstrates how to prepare three easy and delicious complementary tapas: a Spanish tortilla, stuffed olives, and Padron peppers.

19 min
Potato Leek Pizza

02: Potato Leek Pizza

Try a tasty twist on a traditional favorite with a healthier version of pizza that incorporates a light spring vegetable that is often overlooked: the leek. Part of the allium family and related to onions, garlic, shallots, scallions, chives, and Chinese onions, leeks are used in numerous cuisines around the world. This delicious pizza is surprisingly easy and flexible, working well with a variety of cheeses and pairing deliciously with a number of other dishes.

14 min
Spatchcocked Chicken

03: Spatchcocked Chicken

Spring is not usually a season associated with heavy meat dishes, but Chef Briwa shows you an innovative way to prepare chicken in a fast, efficient, and exceptionally tasty manner, a dish which goes seamlessly with the warmer days this season brings. Spatchcockin (as it’s called in England) or crapaudine (as it’s called in France) allows you to roast a chicken perfectly in about 20 minutes. And wait until you see how he uses a brick!

7 min
Southeast Asian Spaghetti Squash Salad

04: Southeast Asian Spaghetti Squash Salad

With an abundance of produce springing in spring, salads are a staple of the season, but they don’t have to be limited to lettuce, carrots, and tomatoes. Chef Briwa introduces you to a Southeast Asian salad that incorporates chicken, fruit, a spicy dressing, and a special touch: spaghetti squash. If you've never used spaghetti squash before, this is a great introduction to what it can do in your kitchen and it makes for a delicious and refreshingly unique spring salad.

11 min
Panna Cotta

05: Panna Cotta

For a lovely, cool dessert to top off your perfect spring picnic, discover the deliciousness of panna cotta. Panna cotta, which literally means “cooked cream,” has the rich, luxurious quality of a custard, but in fact, it’s not a custard; it’s a cream-based dessert thickened with gelatin. Join Chef Durfee to discover how incredibly easy panna cotta is to make, and how the delicious dish allows for such variation and versatility.

8 min

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