Showing posts with label gf. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gf. Show all posts
Thursday, February 15, 2018

Valentine's Day - 2018

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When I am home for Valentine's Day, I always try to make something a little extra special for dinner. This year was no exception, but b...
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Monday, January 15, 2018

Spicy Pecan Brittle

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This was to be part of the dessert for a formal dinner - if it lasted that long.  Fortunately it did. It turned out a most tasty, more-ish ...

Rotkohl - Allow lots of time

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This sweet/sour red cabbage dish was part of a formal dinner party that we had last Saturday. It made enough for about 16 people as a side....
Thursday, December 14, 2017

Eggplant with orange juice and oil

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A group of us were staying in an AirBnB in Buenos Aires. We were working together on a very cool project and staying in a very nice house. ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

A "Chopped" candidate

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This evening's dinner felt like something out of the TV program "Chopped". A bunch of ingredients and a timer - make dinner. ...
Monday, November 13, 2017

Chicken Refrigerator Soup

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A refrigerator soup is one where you have a whole bunch of stuff lying round, and need to use it up - in a potentially unusual way. This on...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

OnePotChicken

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A friend of ours had bariatric surgery recently. So he eats far less now than he used to. It's important that what he does eat is reall...
Sunday, October 1, 2017

Asian Slaw

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We were asked to bring a dish to a party last evening. We knew that there would be bbq at the party, so figured that some kind of a slaw wo...
Friday, September 8, 2017

Roasted Vegetable Salad

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We had visited a local farmers' market last weekend. One of the farmers had these really cute fairy tale eggplants. These are small...
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Monday, August 14, 2017

Salads for the arayes

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In this post , I described the amazing Lebanese sandwiches - arayes. To go with them we made a couple of salads. Water melons, tomatoes and...
Friday, August 4, 2017

We can serve this to chefdave

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While on vacation with Dave Gilbert and friends this summer, he made a vegetable curry using Thai red curry paste. It was outstanding. Even...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

Roasted Red Pepper Dip

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This was one of those warm Texas evenings, a bottle of rosé  , pita chips and the great outdoors kinds of recipes. We had a few red peppers...
Saturday, April 15, 2017

One Dish Asparagus

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Asparagus and Mushrooms - A Light Dinner Serves 4 as a starter, 2 as a main course Time 15 minutes Skill Easy This dish came abo...
Thursday, December 29, 2016

Brisket rub

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We recently bought a new ceramic outdoor "grill". We have had a medium sized Big Green Egg for a while, and we also had a propane...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

GuacaTuna Redux

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A while back (in 2009) I created a dish called Guacatuna . The idea was to replace the mayonnaise in tuna salad with mashed avocado. The te...
Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Leeks, mushrooms, asparagus

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I suppose this is one of those dishes where an exotic name (preferably in an obscure language) is appropriate. But I decided just to be pro...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Mango and Avocado salad

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A dinner party dish. It's all about the prep! It can be varied a bit too, depending on which accents you want. This time we used pomegr...

Lamb Shoulder Chops - Sous Vide and Grilled

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It was dinner event time. We had a menu comprising an avocado/mango/pomegranate salad, lamb shoulder chops with salt baked potatoes , roast...
Thursday, May 19, 2016

Watermelon and Halloumi

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We did a Mediterranean themed party, so who better to turn to for inspiration than Michael Symon. So while this is actually using a Cypriot...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Rhubarb

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Rhubarb doesn't get as much visibility as it should here in Dallas, TX. When buying some yesterday I was asked by the cashier at the su...