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 …
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 …
This dish was described in a novel by Amor Towles, “The Lincoln Highway”. I found it in omaha.com, although it is apparently on the author’s website. It is a relatively quick dish suitable for midweek. I used 4 oz. per person of my very meaty cottage bacon, and I would cut that back to 3 Read More …
This is an adaptation of a recipe I saw on thekitchn.com which they called “French Onion Domino Potatoes”. The idea is to layer thin slices of potato with caramelized onion and Gruyere cheese so that it is a lot like the flavors of French onion soup on potatoes. I made this last night to accompany Read More …
Carol asked for some sweet cornbread to go with the Venison Chili with Beans , and this is what I made based on a recipe in King Arthur Flour’s Whole Grain Baking. The original recipe called for whole wheat pastry flour, which I did not have, so I instead used Irish-style whole wheat flour, which Read More …
I used 4 lbs. of meat from a venison haunch to make a version of Venison Ragout in which the carrots were replaced by a large container of mushrooms which were quartered and separately browned in olive oil before being added to the ragout. It turned out very well.
This is our second version of using part of a leg of venison by making chili, in this case with beans. My starting place was a recipe in StaffMeals from Chanterelle about how they would use up odds and ends of the venison served to the customers. The biggest changes are that I started with Read More …
I was asked to bring dinner rolls to Christmas dinner last night, and I adapted a recipe from “Bernard Clayton’s Complete Book of Small Breads. They turned out well, with one of my granddaughters particularly expressing how much she liked them. This recipe makes 12 rolls and takes about 3.5 hours. 2.25 tsp. (1 packet) Read More …
This is the cake of Carol’s childhood, which we most recently made for a memorial service for her brother Peter. Mayonnaise may sound like a strange ingredient for a cake until you realize that the two main ingredients of mayonnaise, oil and eggs, are standard cake ingredients. This cake tastes better the day after it Read More …
For Thanksgiving this year, I smoked a 16 lb. turkey in my Big Green Egg and it turned out very well. The day before Thanksgiving I spatchcocked it, and used the backbone and neck to make turkey stock for Easy Poultry Gravy. I then marinated the turkey in a 2.5 gallon ziplock baggie with 1.5 Read More …