Monday, July 24, 2017

The 40th Birthday Pig

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A group of friends were in Spanish Wells (Bahamas) to celebrate one of the party's 40th birthday. The birthday dinner was to be a h...
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...
Friday, September 9, 2016

A Shore Dinner

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This recipe is adapted from a brilliant idea that we saw on an America's Test Kitchen episode. Prep time is minimal (10 minutes if you ...
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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...
Tuesday, March 29, 2016

Duck Salad

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Madame and I were too lazy to go to the store - or even anywhere last Sunday. So fridge and freezer diving we went. What did we find? Som...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Cooking with Kenji

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Serious Eats/The Food Lab is one of my favorite sites to visit. Kenji applies scientific principles to experimentation with food. He went t...

OTBN 2016

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I have posted about Open That Bottle Night before. It was an idea started at the Wall Street Journal several years ago. The idea being that...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Israeli CousCous Salad

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This dish is adapted from something we saw on America's test kitchen. We tried it with the usual tweak here and there. Took it to a par...
Tuesday, February 2, 2016

khachapuri - First attempt

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A facebook friend had been traveling in Georgia (the country, not the US state) and mentioned that he had had a fabulous dish - called  kha...
Friday, November 27, 2015

Thanksgiving 2015

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We had a small event this year - but that didn't mean we skimped on anything. Serious Eats provided much of the inspiration, so altho...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Squash Salad

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In the summer here in Texas there is an abundance of squash - zucchini, yellow squash, crook-neck, 8-ball and a host of others. Our trip to...
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Sunday, September 6, 2015

Sous Vide corn on the cob

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I have had this perpetual search for the best way to do corn on the cob. Kenji at Serious eats turned me on to an approach that turned out ...

Caprese Salad

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Kenji at SeriousEats  makes some excellent points about Caprese salad. The keys are: Use really fresh tomatoes Use really fresh Mozzare...

Watermelon

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This is just crazy good. The "Watermelon Ninja" demonstrates a no-mess way of cutting up watermelon. I can't do it any more j...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Pita Chips

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Hardly worth writing about, one might think. But one would be wrong. You can buy some crisp, flavorless abominations in a bag - or you can ...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Coleslaw with buttermilk dressing

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Now that we make all of our butter, we are often left with buttermilk to spare. Because we culture the butter, the buttermilk has a bit of ...

Simple but not easy - cacio e pepe

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Some good friends introduced us to the Roman dish - Cacio e Pepe (Cheese and pepper - in this case black pepper). It has very few ingredien...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Grilled Romaine and peapod salad

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The back story. We have decided to grow peas this year. And much to our surprise, they have started producing. Not a lot yet, but the young...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Asparagus and Shiitake

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This recipe is (very slightly) adapted from Americas Test Kitchen. The episode was broadcast a week or so ago, and can be found here . Slig...
Monday, March 23, 2015

Mixology Party

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We decided that it would be fun to have a party that was themed around cocktails and food. Often hard to do because the flavors can clash. ...
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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Jerk Pork

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This dish is, apparently, Usain Bolt's favorite. It is adapted from Jamie Oliver's recipe which in turn is inspired By Usain Bolt...

Escabeche or Escoveitch

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Or just pickled fish. This is a large recipe that I haven't scaled back yet. It was a starter course for dinner for 14 people. And yes...
Sunday, March 1, 2015

OTBN 2015

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We hosted another "Open That Bottle Night" event on February 28. Same format as usual - we asked our friends to bring a bottle of...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Devilled eggs - but the technique is important

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I saw this video  a couple of days ago, so immediately had to find an excuse to try it. It works as advertised (much to Madame's surpr...
Saturday, February 21, 2015

Soba noodle soup

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After the success of the cold soba noodle salad, madame thought it would be nice to have a soup with soba noodles in it. I figured that coo...
Sunday, February 15, 2015

Soba noodle salad with clams

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We wanted something light for dinner this evening. Having recently had cold soba noodles as a salad at a nice restaurant, I thought it migh...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Baked Patagonian Toothfish

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The perennial problem with dinner parties is in trying to find dishes that can be prepared "a la minute" and still being around f...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Chicken in Milk with butternut squash

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I won't post the recipe here - but here's the link . It isn't a Chris original, I pinched it from Jamie Oliver - he deserves al...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Butter

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During the evening of the first of the big (fortunately not everything in Texas is bigger) earthquakes in the Dallas area, we were having d...
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Thursday, November 13, 2014

Salt Baked Potatoes

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We were at a an event where appetizers were passed around. One of the finger food dishes was baby baked potatoes split and topped with sour...