Chef Bolek

Tilapia seems almost ubiquitous.  After shrimp, canned tuna and salmon, tilapia is the most consumed fish in the United States.  It is al...

Author Helene York once described  tilapia as " the fish everyone loves to hate ."   Chefs dislike the fish because of its mild...

In Tuscany, there is a dish called Trote Affogato or "Drowned Trout."  The recipe calls for the sauteing of fresh trout with an...

It has been a while since I tried to create a recipe or make a Chef Bolek Original.  The reason rests with the fact that I have been extr...

We had a bag of sliced almonds lying around after Clare made the Warm Cheese Tart with Cinnamon and Sliced Almonds. Looking to work a lit...

As I was preparing for making a Mardi Gras meal of Seafood Gumbo, I bought a package of frozen Crawfish, which is already precooked.  The...

This recipe is based upon a recipe by Chef Giuliano Bugialli, who wrote a cookbook of recipes from the Italian islands, like Sardinia and S...

This is my take on a classic Italian dish. A brodetto is a seafood stew often prepared by fishermen along the Adriatic sea using whatever fr...