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"Kitchen Sessions with Charlie Trotter" recipe calls for grilling flank steak, sauteing polenta slices, and drizzling the whole dish with roasted shallot vinaigrette.

Prepare these blue cheese souffles and serve atop brioche with a grape reduction. Garnish with more grapes and Maytag blue cheese.

Recipe for roasted goose comes from Trotter's "Charlie Trotter Cooks at Home" cookbooks. Serve the goose with a pan sauce of drippings mixed with fresh thyme.

Salad contains pickled beets, endive, sliced pear, goat cheese, and walnuts tossed with a sherry vinaigrette. Beets take two hours to pickle.

Trotter serves up his recipe for pickling juice from his "Charlie Trotter Cooks at Home" cookbook. Ingredients include ginger, sugar, jalapenos, and rice wine vinegar.

Potatoes, heavy whipping cream, and Parmesan cheese comprise the ingredients of this simple but rich side dish. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.

Simple salad mixes Granny Smith apples and fennel with a vinaigrette of tarragon, lemon juice, and olive and canola oil.

Serve Trotter's stuffing at your next holiday gathering. Includes such traditional ingredients as sage and celery but adds sourdough bread and fresh cranberries.

Make Trotter's warm Granny Smith apple tart topped with homemade date ice cream and a red wine caramel sauce. Includes reviews from cooks who have tried this recipe.