Monday, July 16, 2018

Gazpacho

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I wanted to make a locally sourced dish for a "slow food" event here in Dallas. Of course I turned to the clever folks at Serious...
Saturday, June 30, 2018

Pate a Choux

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I can't believe that I didn't have a choux paste recipe lying around somewhere. This is a bit of a departure for me because I measu...
Friday, June 22, 2018

Interpreting a recipe

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My sister has been waxing lyrical about the cinnamon buns from the Da Bara bakery in Cornwall (SW England). She dug around and found a reci...
Thursday, May 3, 2018

Cauliflower and asparagus soup

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Cauliflower gets everywhere it seems. This soup wasn't an "oh let's get a cauliflower and use it to make a soup". More li...
Sunday, April 15, 2018

A tale of too much pork

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If there were such a thing as too much pork, this would be it. We had done a pork shoulder on the egg for a work party. And it was pronounc...
Wednesday, February 28, 2018

A Pate a Choux trick

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For most of us at home, using a pastry bag, nozzles, etc. is a royal pain.With that in mind, I was making some mini gougeres for a party ov...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

Bravetart

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Bravetart , the dessert cookbook from Stella Parks has some very approachable recipes for the home cook. She explains things clearly an sim...
Sunday, February 18, 2018

Cast Iron isn't a good conductor

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For all of the great benefits of cast iron for skillets, flat tops, etc. One thing that I overlook is that it doesn't act...
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 22, 2018

Cauliflower Soup

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This soup is adapted from a recipe on Americas Test Kitchen. We made/served it for a major dinner party. This is a scaled back version, so ...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Strange Bread

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I recently bought Stella Parks's wonderful dessert cook book, "BraveTart". Of course I had to try some things - so the recipe...
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....
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Sharpening Knives

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I admit it, I am a klutz - with lousy eye sight and worse eye/hand coordination. So the perennial problem that a cook has, "How to sha...
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...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

Baked Vacherin Mont d'Or

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Vacherin Mont d'Or is a French washed rind cheese from the Franche-Comte region of France. It is traditionally made from raw (unpasteur...
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...
Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Pie Dough

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Like all dishes this one starts with a story - and a little known secret. First the secret. Cartons of 18 eggs (in the US) are usually fres...
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...

arayes - aka lamb-a-dillas

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We saw a recipe for arayes in Cooks Illustrated this week. The idea looked so good that we just had to try it. When I described it to a ...
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...
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...