http://www.askchefshawn.com Chef Shawn is here to Answer your Cooking Questions Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:57:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Chefs have become iconic these days. Watching chefs cook up mouth-watering meals on television has inspired many to pursue courses in culinary schools to learn the secrets of cooking like a chef. But if you are among the hundreds of thousands of other wannabees who simply do not have the ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/secrets-of-cooking-like-a-chef/ Question: I'm trying to make wheat vermicelli sized noodles. What is the procedure I have to take to make the noodles and where can I find a machine that makes vermicelli sized noodles. Answer: Any fresh pasta recipe will work to make vermicelli noodles but this is one of my favorite pasta recipes: ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/vermicelli-sized-noodles/ 1 pound Medium Shrimp, peeled and devained 1 ½ cups chopped Roasted Tomatoes 3 cloves minced garlic ¾ cup chopped pitted kalmata olives 1 pound linguine pasta (or any pasta that you prefer) ½ cup crumbled Feta cheese ½ Chopped Freash parsley 3 Tablespoons Olive oil 3 Tablespoons of Butter Salt and Pepper to taste 1. ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/shrimp-pasta-recipe/ I started making this dish a few years ago. I had planed out a slow smoked pork BBQ dish and as fate would have it pouring rain that day and I had friends coming over for diner that night and to top it off I had no way to get ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/how-to-cook-pork/ 1 Pound medium shrimp, peeled, deveined and diced 1 Fresh tomato, seeds removed and diced ½ Yellow onion, diced ½ Poblano pepper, diced 2 Garlic cloves, minced 1 Tablespoon fresh cilantro, chopped 1 Teaspoon chili powder ½ Teaspoon cumin Juice of 1 lime 1 Tablespoon cooking oil Salt and black pepper to taste First preheat a large sauté pan. Next add ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/shrimp-taco-recipe/ A few days ago a friend asked if I had a spicy shrimp recipe. Well the good news is I happen to have a few but here are two of my favorites. Spicy Shrimp Skewers The First step is to make a spicy rub. This is just a combination of spices so ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/spicy-shrimp-recipe/ This is a recipe that I started using to use some extra tomatoes that I had sitting around. I found that I like the flavor better then sun dried tomatoes and have begun to subsisting these tomatoes for any recipe that has sundried tomatoes in them. They are also very ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/roasted-tomatoes/ When I first made this salsa my goal was not to make a salsa. My goal was to make a sauce to go over some fresh tamales I had gotten my hands on. As with most recipes that I come with I was just winging it. The plan was to ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/roasted-poblano-pepper-salsa/ People love tender cuts of meat like rib-eye roast (Prime Rib), pork tenderloin and even chicken breast but buying products like this can be very expensive. So sometimes we have to budget a little and buy less expensive cuts of meat like rump roast, pork shoulder and chicken thighs. ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/how-to-braise/ As almost every ones knows pork comes from pigs. Pigs have been raised as livestock for thousands of years dating back as far as 5000 BC. There is an old phase that goes something like “we use everything but the squeal.” Well this is very true everything on the pigs ... http://www.askchefshawn.com/pork/