• Meats

    Crouton’s Chateaubriand

    When Ditalini and I were first married, young, dumb, and desperately poor, my mom and dad would treat us to a monthly Friday night dinner at the Von Steuben Hotel in Wiesbaden, Germany. We always ordered chateaubriand for two. We…

  • Vegetables

    Crouton’s Chateau Potatoes

    I read somewhere they served these to first-class passengers on the Titanic. Putting superstition aside, I decided to serve them with chateaubriand for a non-traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Quite the elevated spuds, these, crispy on the outside, tender and buttery on…