On Amanda’s most recent visit, she asked for this dish, which we made based on Wendy Hutton’s Southeast Asia’s Best Recipes, on page 101. This included making the green curry paste from scratch in our food processor. One difference from the book is that we included Thai eggplants since Carol really likes them. We kept Read More …
Bistek – Filipino Pan Fried Steak with Onions is a Filipino classic – steak with a savory sweet and sour sauce based on onions, soy sauce, and lemon juice (actually calamansi juice if it happens to be available). This recipe is applying the same concept to chicken drumsticks, and is adapted from an article in Read More …
This posting is more about technique than recipe, and is a way to get crispy chicken wings without frying them, and is adapted from an article in bonappetit.com 3 lbs. of chicken wings will make about 4 entrée servings. The resultant wings can be eaten plain (Carol’s preference) or with Buffalo chicken sauce (or some Read More …
This recipe is the culmination of several small recipes in the blog. Once you have the components, it would be easy to make a set of 8 sandwiches – the marginal time per sandwich is very low. This whole process was adapted from Israeli Soul by Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. Amounts shown below are Read More …
This is a modification of a recipe in Israeli Soul by Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook. Since I had some turkey thighs in the freezer, I actually used them instead of chicken thighs. Originally, I followed the recipe by poaching the wrapped thighs in simmering water for 15 minutes. When I cut the thigh cylinders Read More …
Before Thanksgiving, the supermarkets had great deals on frozen turkey. We thawed a small turkey and cut it up and used the carcass to make gravy for Thanksgiving in advance. I saw an article in Food 52 regarding a Honey Lemon Chicken in recipetineats.com which I re-purposed for turkey breast cutlets I had made from Read More …
This is one of my favorite Thai dishes, and one that I have made many times over the years. I recently saw a version on an Asian cooking blog www.tasteasianfood.com run by KP Kwan, and decided to try his version. I liked a few things about his variation: a more complex sauce, some cornstarch to Read More …
I had a big bag of chicken wings in the freezer starting to get freezer burned, and a quart of cranberry juice I did not know what to do with, so I solved two problems by making a variation on Greasy Little Birds (aka Apple Smoked Cornish Game Hens). I prepared the 6 lbs. of Read More …
After making a batch of Tasso a few days ago, I was looking for a dish to use it in and hit on jambalaya, the Cajun dish of meat, vegetables, and rice. In the true spirit of jambalaya, I used what I had on hand, which were bags of frozen chicken wings and shrimp in Read More …
This was served at today’s Middle Eastern themed Father’s Day lunch. It is adapted from what I think is the best community cookbook ever published, The Complete Book of Greek Cooking by The Recipe Club of Saint Paul’s Greek Orthodox Cathedral. It was very good with pitas and tzatziki sauce 3 lbs. boneless skinless chicken Read More …