Recipes from the Breakroom

May 2021
This month’s featured dish is by one of Melissa’s culinary contributors, Dana Hall, who works from a home office – her kitchen in the Phoenix-Scottsdale area of Arizona. 

February 2021
Out of the many entries submitted by Melissa’s professional chef and mixologist customers, three treatments of Del Monte’s new PINKGLOW™ Pineapple...

August 2017
Here’s the perfect summer salad side dish submitted by John Dunham, Melissa’s Procurement Category Manager and resident foodie.

September 2016
Just in time to help take the chill off September’s seasonal changeover from summer to fall, Carlos Preciado, a member of Melissa’s Business Development team...

June 2016
Here’s a wonderful couscous dish from the summertime kitchen of Steve Fruchter in Melissa’s Retail Sales Department. Steve’s recipe is the perfect side dish to kick off the grilling season.

September 2013
A dish with a very simple list of ingredients and ease of preparation that offers a surprising complexity of flavors that belies this recipe’s modest components.

April 2013
While the ingredients for this dish are few and the prep extremely simple, the layers of flavor that Chef Frank creates on one plate are extraordinary.

February 2012
This month’s featured dish is a wonderful dessert that brings together a traditional Italian recipe with a few tasty tropical favorites and two seasonal citrus varieties--just the thing to brighten up these short and dark winter days!

January 2012
While this feature usually spotlights how one of Melissa’s professional chef clients would prepare and present fresh seasonal ingredients on a plate, this month’s fresh produce components are being served in a glass, rather than under glass - martini, goblet and tall cocktail glasses, to be specific.