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 …
This is an adaptation of a recipe in Salon.com for an easy dish suitable for a Super Bowl party. By using rotisserie chicken and commercial empanada doughs, there is very little work for something which is quite tasty. We used LaFe Discos Para Empanadas (available at New Grand Mart), which were very convenient and easy Read More …
This is a style of cooking fish in Sonora and Sinaloa which was adapted to home ovens in Pati Jinich’s book Treasures of the Mexican Table. The quantities below are sized for 2 persons. At Pati’s suggestion, we served the fish with corn tortillas as tacos. Carol thought it did not need the tortillas and Read More …
Many years ago I clipped out a recipe (possibly from the NYT) for fluke prepared in a Venetian style (sweet and sour, like an escabeche). This idea proved to be a good way to use 2 pieces of cod in my freezer. Carol thought this would be a good dish for parties since it can Read More …
Baked Ziti is essentially an unfussy version of lasagna, and is a great dish for feeding a crowd. This is how I made it last night, mostly following a recipe in J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s excellent book The Food Lab. This takes about 2 hours and will feed 8 or so. 1 lb. ziti, penne, or Read More …