We had a head of cabbage in the refrigerator and Carol challenged me to come up with a suitable cabbage salad to accompany some Japanese beef curry. Here is the basic idea of what I made based on a recipe in Nancy Singleton Hachisu’s book Japanese Farm Food. Just do everything to taste, and use Read More …
This is an easy dish for a midweek dinner or a nicer than usual lunch, and is adapted from a recipe in the Washington Post. It makes a tasty filling for flour or corn tortillas and will serve 4 people. Vegetable oil as needed 6 oz. (1.5 large links) Mexican chorizo, skins removed 15 oz. Read More …
I successfully smoked and cooked a 12 lb. turkey entirely in my MasterBuilt electric box smoker. The turkey was spatchcocked and then marinaded overnight in the refrigerator in 1 recipe of the marinade for Apple Smoked Cornish Game Hens. The next day I rinsed it off, dried it with paper towels and a fan and Read More …
A reading assignment for one of my granddaughters involved analyzing a recipe for Irish soda bread. We followed up the assignment by making the bread from the recipe last night, and we enjoyed the bread very much for breakfast this morning. Like most quick breads, it benefits from little handling, so that it is tender, Read More …
This is a variation of a rabbit dish in Aglaia Kremezi’s The Foods of the Greek Islands, which I changed mainly by replacing rabbit, which is quite expensive and hard to find, with boneless chicken thighs, which are inexpensive and very easy to find. I served it with wide egg noodles. It could also have Read More …
This is another variation of the Basic No-Knead Bread from Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery and which was popularized in the New York Times. This variation includes some sourdough starter. I made it for a birthday dinner and enjoyed it. 100 g. 50/50 flour/water sourdough starter 75 g. bread flour 75 g. water Read More …