One of my favorite things about the winter months is that when it is cold outside—all I want to do is cook and drink red wine! One of our latest dinners was roast leg of lamb roulade over a bed of root vegetables.We paired it with a glass of Shiraz...

Friends and customers often ask me, “If you’re a trained chef, why don’t you work in a restaurant kitchen?” It’s hard to fetch a response to that question that won’t lead them to believe that I have somehow “given up” on the restaurant world. I haven’t. (I still daydream about...