'recipe' Category
just to clarify:
I am a Jew. (Apparently there have been some “disturbing” results for Google searches on that term, so I figure it’s good for those of us who are to say so out loud.) At the moment I am a happy Jew who made some decidedly non-kosher and decidedly tasty tapas for dinner – grilled andouille, […]
small explosion, long distances
Well, I guess I’m not making a cake tonight. I’d been planning one, and couldn’t make it today because I had a brisket in the oven all afternoon, so I thought about making it tonight (a spice cake with caramel icing, suitable for breakfasts). However, it turned out to be an … um, unusually aggressive […]
flank steak
So far, that bland chicken pot pie has been the only recipe from Real Simple that has steered me wrong. (If I do it again, I’ll swap out the carrots, thyme and most of the peas for cilantro and chili, and make a New Mexico version). Tonight I made their Flank steak with artichoke/pepper/bread salad. […]
Follow-up to the follow-up
The chicken pot pie looked great, but tasted totally bland. The only flavoring was from salt, pepper, thyme and the main ingredients (chicken, carrots, peans, onions). It didn’t help that the pinot gris I used was sweeter than it ought to have been for the recipe. However, it seems like a good base to work […]
chief cook and bottlewasher
Actually, that title is untrue; I am the chief cook and Ted is the bottlewasher. Since I’m at home now, I have taken on the cooking, shopping and housekeeping duties. (Previously we split the cooking and we’ve had a housekeeping service for the last fifteen years of so.) It has some odd side effects; for […]
Things I need in a kitchen
SInce it looks like we’ll be setting up yet another kitchen, the following is mostly for me but may be useful to others. It is entirely idiosynratic. “Need” is stuff it really bothers me not to have; “want” is helpful. I’d be very interested in hearing what others would add or subtract. Need Pots Small […]
Yum (with parenthetical inserts)
That was actually pretty darn tasty. Pan-fried salmon (because we came back from Lisbon on Tuesday afternoon, and thus were actually not at work for once on Market Day) with sesame-soy drizzle (because, I am happy to report, Mark Bittman is much better on cooking than he is on baking) with a tomato-mozzarella salad (we’ll […]
“Workout Onion Soup” and other cooking
Not bad; out of three new recipes this week, one was just OK and two were successes that I’ll make again. On Saturday, I made what purported to be a Dutch hutspot recipe. It wasn’t really, just a beef stew – the potatoes were in chunks instead of mashed as in traditional hutspot. I think […]
Hungarian beef goulash soup recipe
For being the first time with a new recipe, this was a raving success. I will write it down as I cooked it, with comments and things i want to try next time in parentheses. This is a good winter meal, and a good dish to cook on a quiet Sunday and have once or […]
Jambalaya
LA asked for my jambalaya recipe; as long as I was writing it out, I figured other people might want it too. Like lots of traditional forms of cooking, I think jambalaya evolved as a way to use up every bit of your leftovers, and to make a bit of meat go a long way, […]