This quick side dish is adapted from Damn Good Chinese Food. The quantities below make 2 servings and preparation is about 15 minutes. The original used “mushroom water” from soaking dried mushrooms. I have used mushroom powder from Trader Joe’s ½ tsp. mushroom powder ¼ cup Shoaxing wine (Chinese cooking wine) 1 Tbs. soy sauce Read More …
This is an adaptation of a recipe for a Cantonese noodle dish on the “Made With Lau” YouTube channel. My version looked a lot different from the original since I was unable to find fresh wide flat noodles at the New Grand Mart. The closest I could find were thinner noodles intended for Phat Thai, Read More …
This is an adaptation of Jacques Pepin’s Arroz con Pollo as shown on the Rachel Ray program. It makes 4 servings and takes about an hour. As expected, it was very good. Pepin used cilantro stems, which he accumulates in his freezer. I used a mixture of leaves and stems from fresh cilantro. 3 Tbs. Read More …
Breakfast sausage is very simple – pork, salt, and spices. Here is a link to a version with just 3 ingredients: Simple American Breakfast Sausage . This posting is an adaptation of a recipe in livingthegourmet.com, which involves more ingredients, but is still very simple. It makes just over a pound of sausage. I made Read More …
What to do with the remains of a Costco rotisserie chicken after using it for chicken pasta salad and sliced chicken sandwiches? Why, of course, make the baby brother of Leftover Thanksgiving Turkey Gumbo. Basically, just half everything. Delicious! This batch made 4 servings and took about an hour and a half.
This posting is a variation on Bazlama, a Turkish flatbread, in which I am using different flour and kneading by a stand mixer. I have also adjusted the quantities for 6 servings. I cooked the first 2 servings last night and will cook the second 2 servings tonight from dough stored in the refrigerator. It Read More …
We enjoyed Chinese-style ribs while watching the Super Bowl. These were based on a recipe in the Chinese Takeout Cookbook with several changes. Total time was about 1-1/2 hours. 4 lbs. spareribs, cut into individual pieces 1-1/2 cups brown sugar 5 cloves garlic, chopped 3-1/2 tsp. light soy sauce (I used Kikkoman) 1 Tbs. oyster Read More …
Bazlama is a Turkish flatbread, which is also called Village Bread, because it is popular in the countryside. It is commonly eaten for breakfast. This version is adapted from a popular video by Lina’nin Yemek Tarileri which has been viewed more than 50 million times. It is an enriched bread, containing either milk or yogurt, Read More …
This hearty winter stew from northern Spain was adapted from Jean Anderson’s Falling Off the Bone. It takes about 4 hours and will serve 6-8 with a good crusty bread. 6 thick slices of bacon, cut into 1-inch pieces 3 lb. beef chuck or round roast, cut into 1-1/2-inch cubes 2 large onions, sliced 6 Read More …
This is a variation on New York Bagels in which about half of the high gluten flour is replaced by King Arthur Keto Wheat Baking Flour plus Vital Wheat Gluten, since the keto flour has less gluten. The changes in flour also required a change to the amount of water, and it took a few Read More …