If you only have time for a dessert after the kids are in bed, try something elegant and expedient, like poached pears. This recipe works best with pink champagne.
When corn and tomatoes are ripe, let them shine in simple preparations like this refreshing, time-saving dinner, in which the salmon is poached in the same thyme- and garlic-infused water that the corn...
Poaching chicken in a ginger-scallion broth not only flavors the meat, it leaves you with flavorful stock and rendered fat for crisping up fluffy white rice.