The Lechasseurs' Recipes

Anna Olson's Lemon Meringue Pie

Hope to try this for the Peabody Farm harvest party.

Asian-Style Chicken Breasts

This one was pretty good Michael!

This pasta will transport you - before you know it you'll be driving along the Baja coast, in a convertable with the top down, warm wind in your hair, the salt encrusted on your body. And you'll be thinking, "Why can't I be back home making Johanna and Mary Jo's Baja Lime Pasta ... NOT."

Chicken

Pasta

Pistachio Cake

This cake is a cinch to make, and the combination of pistachio and lemon makes it a winner for breakfast, tea, or dessert.—Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers

Camille's Birthday, 2013!

Birthday

Cake

Stir-fried Shrimp with Mustard Seeds, Garlic and Mint

Shrimp cook up so fast that I often use them for an easy meal. You need medium-sized, raw shrimp here, the kind that are sold without their heads. I like to serve this dish with plain rice and a simple vegetable or a salad.

Miette Gingerbread Cake

Miette’s gingerbread cake started as a seasonal cake, arriving with the crisp days of fall. But when we tried to cycle it out, there was so much demand that we made it available year-round. It remains our best-selling cake, very moist, deeply spicy, and topped with a silky cream cheese frosting. We bake it as a small cake, but you can also prepare it in small loaf pans.

Miette Cream Cheese Frosting

Makes about 3 cups

Tangy and sweet, classic cream cheese frosting has topped both carrot cake and gingerbread forever, and far be it from us to separate these classic American pairings. Although it was difficult to improve on the original recipe, we have added a few steps to the method to keep the consistency smooth and shiny; softening the butter and creaming it with the sugar until smooth before adding the cream cheese will eliminate any little bits of butter that have a tendency to pop up in cream cheese frosting.

Frosting

icing

Gingerbread

Curried Vegetable and Chickpea Stew

This is a great clearing-out-the-fridge recipe. My inspiration actually came from an old Cooking Light recipe and a fridge full of vegetables that needed using—but not all vegetables that the original recipe called for. I love the big pieces of cauliflower that came from that experiment, but I have also made versions with parsnips, turnips, winter or summer squash, extra carrots, and swiss chard.