At the Chinese grocery, Carol decided to buy trout which we planned to cook with prosciutto in the Spanish style. I went to the library after work, and when I came home I found Carol in my office going through the cookbooks. She had just realized that instead of trout, she had two very nice Read More …
One of the first cookbooks we acquired was Mireille Johnston’s The Cuisine of the Sun about Provencal cooking. This posting is an adaptation of a recipe from this book which we have made over and over again over the years. One of the key ideas in the recipe is to cut slits in the lamb Read More …
This is an adaptation of recipe in Robb Walsh’s Legends of Texas Barbecue Cookbook. It is hard to get more authentic than that! This is very straight-forward and takes only about 3-1/2 hours total time. It uses only a simple dry rub, and then can sauced when eaten if desired (me) or not (Carol). Read More …
This is an extremely tasty midweek dinner, and with the exception of juniper berries, contains only common household ingredients. The original idea came from a recipe from Nigel Slater in The Guardian www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/oct/04/nigel-slater-apples-potatoes-and-bacon-recipe We liked Nigel’s version, but thought it could be improved, which resulted in this recipe as take number 2. We have sized it Read More …
Here it is together, Boxty with Beef and Mushroom Stew, the way I had it at an Irish pub in Calgary. Here are links to the two component recipes. They are good together or separate and with other dishes. For example, the pub also served boxty wrapped around chicken tikka masala. Beef and Mushroom Stew Read More …
1-1/2 lb beef stew meat, cut up into 1 inch cubes 1 lb. brown mushrooms, cleaned and quartered 1 large onion chopped 2 cloves garlic, chopped 12 oz. bottle Guinness stout 1 cup beef stock 2 Tbs. tomato paste 1 Tbs. flour ½ tsp. dried thyme 1 bay leaf 2 Tbs. Worcestershire Sauce 5 Tbs. Read More …
Boxty is a traditional Irish potato-flour flatbread which I had never heard of until I had dinner a few weeks ago in an Irish pub in Calgary. The pub used boxty as a starch wrapper, like a pita or tortilla, around fillings, such as a beef and mushroom stew. Here is an adaptation of a Read More …
This was originally a filling for empanadas, but it also worked well as a vegetarian filling for kolaches. The quantities below are enough for 1 batch of kolaches or about 16 Biscuit Bombs Kolaches The original recipe is from Beth Hensperger’s Breads of the Southwest. 1 large onion, chopped 1 Tbs. olive oil 1-1/4 lbs. potatoes, Read More …
This is planned for one of the dinners on our upcoming Boundary Waters canoe trip. I just tested it tonight under semi-field conditions (one pot and using the sour cream powder), and it tasted fine other than discovering that we were using old mustard powder which was bitter and needed to be replaced. Thus the Read More …
This San Francisco Italian-American classic was our contribution to dinner at family beach week on the Outer Banks this year. This will provide 4 ample servings. See the bottom of the posting for notes about quantities for large groups. Scoma’s Cioppino Serves 4 Cioppino Sauce Base ¼ cup olive oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 Read More …