For a couple of years, many people asked me to give cooking classes. I finally gave in and taught over a 4+-year time period. As others heard of it, they and my students firmly told me to put it all together into a cookbook.
Unfortunately these days, unless you’re a celebrity chef or work for a famous restaurant, publishers don’t want to touch your cookbook. This is partly because of all the free recipes online. Nevertheless, folks keep on asking for a copy of my book—which has been completed for nearly two years.
I looked into Crowdfunding on places like KickStarter and the like, but it became obvious that cookbooks were the bottom of the totem pole for raising funds. On the other hand, several cookbook authors have been having more success starting their own Crowdfunding sites. So I decided to try that model in conjunction with this new restaurant venture.
You can download the entire cookbook or individual recipes for free. This is allowed. But I’m putting my trust in y’all to donate towards the printing of this book with professional photos—taken by our local photographic hero Jay Hemphill, who will be paid—and an eventual digital version with crucial recipes and steps detailed in an accompanying video. We plan on trying to have it printed in such a way that the pages can be wiped clean with a damp cloth.
If you appreciated the food at Shevek & Co. Restaurant we hope you’ll donate what you feel it is worth, even if it’s just a dollar for a single recipe. To reward you for having read this far, in one of the two non-recipe chapters there is an Easter egg that will give you the secret ingredient that is in everything I cook but is left out of most of the recipes—I taught it in all the cooking classes.
Thank you for your time. Always remember: “to Dine Well is to Live Well.”
Chef Shevek M Barnhart
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The Whole Cookbook
Artichoke Hearts with Lemon-Mint Dressing
Lebanese Beet Salad
Moroccan Date & Orange Salad
Grilled Stuffed Portobello Mushroom
Balsamic Vinaigrette
Blood Orange & Poppy Seed Dressing
Cabrales Blue Cheese Dressing
Gazpacho
Chilled Blueberry Merlot Soup
Cream of Portobello
Green Chile Chicken & Rice
Crab & Roasted Corn Bisque
Cabrales Blue Cheese & Blood Oranges
Feta-Stuffed Roasted Pepper with Preserved Lemon Sauce
Grilled Herbed Feta Cheese
Menemen
Eggs in Brandied Cream Sauce
Shaping Phyllo Dough for Briouats
Bride’s Fingers
Spanakopitta
Cheese Cigars
Crêpes for Savory Dishes
Spanish Chorizo & Date Crêpe
Moroccan Chicken Crêpe with Apples
The Ultimate Four Cheese Lasagne
Cappellini in Wild Mushroom Cream
Cappellini with Chicken & Fresh Basil
Pheasant Sausage with Cavatappi
Shrimp Farfalle with Artichokes & Tomato
Blood Orange Chicken
Chicken Marsala
Chicken & Fig Tagine
Tunisian BBQ Chicken
Duck with Mandarin Oranges
Antipasto di Pesce
Paella
Zarzuela
Grilled Mahi Mahi with Blackberry Balsamic Sauce
Grilled Shrimp with Lavender & Mint
Beef Tips Cabrales
Veal with Strawberries & Basil with Blackberry-Basil Sauce
Grilled Lamb Tenderloin with a Spicy Harissa, Roasted Pepper, Walnut, Pomegranate Relish
Puerco al Salamanca
Portobello Mushroom-Liver Pâté
Carrot Cake
Cherry Clafouti
Mascarpone Cheesecake
Aztec Mousse
White Chocolate Amaretto Mousse
Whole Wheat Baguettes
Pita Bread
Our Gluten Free Bread
Baked or Fried Polenta
Provençal Spiced Poached Apples
Herbed Garlic Butter
Marinara Sauce
Crème Fraîche
Lemon Crème Fraîche
Mayonnaise in a Food Processor
Harissa Aioli
Preserved Lemon Sauce
Roasted Red Pepper Pesto
Tzatziki à la Shevek
Beef Broth or Stock
Chicken Broth or Stock
Vegetable Broth or Stock
Reductions: Chicken, Beef & Vegetable
Preserved Lemons
Chive Shmeer
Harissa
Pine Nut Gunk
Seafood Paste
Moroccan Blackening Spices
Salamanca Spice Mix
Zarzuela Spices