Amanda asked for Fettuccine Alfredo for dinner the night before the Richmond Marathon. We served it with chicken schnitzel and a salad. The fettuccini was based on a recipe in Lidia’s Italian-American Kitchen. Essentially it is a pasta with cream sauce. Here it is sized for 4 oz. of dried fettuccine, which is enough for Read More …
After Carol made chicken soup for a sick family member, we had leftover 2 boiled chicken breasts, and Carol asked for curried chicken salad for dinner. This is how I made it, based mostly on the version in The Best Recipe by Cook’s Illustrated. This will serve 4 people. 2 cooked chicken breasts, diced 2 Read More …
I have made and enjoyed many batches of Cottage Bacon using a simple cure of Morton TenderQuick curing salt and brown sugar. I recently made three variations of Cottage Bacon using spicing and sweetening ideas from Jake Levin’s Smokehouse Handbook. This version uses Thai red curry paste, honey and garlic for flavoring. This was very Read More …
I have made and enjoyed many batches of Cottage Bacon using a simple cure of Morton TenderQuick curing salt and brown sugar. I recently made three variations of Cottage Bacon using spicing and sweetening ideas from Jake Levin’s Smokehouse Handbook. This version uses miso, honey and garlic for flavoring. I was sure this would turn Read More …
I have made and enjoyed many batches of Cottage Bacon using a simple cure of Morton TenderQuick curing salt and brown sugar. I recently made three variations of Cottage Bacon using spicing and sweetening ideas from Jake Levin’s Smokehouse Handbook. This version was inspired by English back bacon. Follow the instructions in the Cottage Bacon Read More …
This easy and tasty way to cook Asian greens is adapted from Hsiao-Ching Chou’s book Chinese Soul Food. The key thing is to get the pan really hot so that the greens get a bit of char on them. 12 oz. bok choy, baby bok choi, etc., cut into small pieces 1 Tbs. vegetable oil Read More …
I very much liked the idea for this pork spare ribs braise in Hsiao-Ching Chou’s book Chinese Soul Food, but I thought her version (which I made last night) was too salty and not sweet and sour enough. In the recipe below, I have noted what I think would be the right proportions, and what Read More …
Some years ago, I adapted a dessert recipe by Dorie Greenspan so that it could be baked in a Dutch oven while camping. That dish, Swedish Visiting Cake Bars – Camping Version , was a hit with my fellow campers. Yesterday, I needed to bring something to a choir party and decided to bake at Read More …
The photo shows sliced and unsliced Canadian bacon (called back bacon in Canada). Canadian bacon is made from the pork loin, which is a very lean cut of meat. Because the loin is so lean, the loin is cured in a brine rather than dry cured to make the finished product juicy. (In fact, I Read More …
This is a variation of No-knead bread with Flourish and whole-wheat flour made with some of my 50/50 sourdough starter. 50 g. sourdough starter 75 g. whole wheat flour 300 g. warm water, divided 2 g. yeast 150 g. Flourish flour 150 g. KAF high gluten flour 8 g. salt Early on the day before Read More …