Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Ginger Glazed Carrots

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 This is a kind of hybrid dish. Glazed carrots can be pretty good (as long as they aren't overly sweet). Ginger goes well with carrots t...

Chicken Sheet Pan Dinner

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We have been doing a lot of virtual wine tastings of late. Each of them takes about an hour, so our standard format is to have some nibbles ...
Monday, September 7, 2020

Provencal onion tart

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 For a virtual wine event a week or so ago, I made several Provencal inspired dishes. The first was the tapenade that I referenced in  previ...
Monday, August 31, 2020

Tapenade

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 Classic tapenade isn't just about the olives. Capers play a major role too.  The name comes from the Provencal word for capers (tapenas...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Gazpacho

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This is not your standard, boring blended salsa Gazpacho. It has stale bread. It has olive oil. It has a touch of sherry vinegar. Nothing is...
Wednesday, May 13, 2020

Pineapple and Ancho marinade and sauce

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This marinade/sauce is part of my summer project - using dried chillies in all sorts of interesting ways. It is adapted from Milk Street...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

When in Texas Make Salsa

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A very good friend invited me over to sample her loquats. I had no clue what they were, but figured that if they were food related, I would...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

FauxFu

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Madame doesn't care much for Tofu. There are, however, some dishes that just wouldn't be right without it. Especially miso soup.. ...
Thursday, April 30, 2020

Tomato and Mozz Skewers

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At a properly socially distanced driveway party last week a friend had made some delicious skewers with tomatoes, Mozzarella, basil and bal...
Friday, April 24, 2020

Sourdough and Buttermilk biscuits.

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We have a lot of sourdough starter here at the birdhouse. So we have to find ways to use the "discard" that which is poured off t...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

Sourdough Crackers

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In the land of sourdough bread baking, we often find ourselves with excess starter. Because as we feed our starters, they increase in b...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Coronagroni

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This is a cocktail that we came up with during the Covid-19 "social distancing" time in 2020. We had some of the delicious Diplom...
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Sunday, March 1, 2020

OTBN 2020

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We often participate in the Wall Street Journal "Open That Bottle Night" concept. The primary idea being to dink wine when you fe...
Sunday, February 9, 2020

Tonic water

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America's Test Kitchen has an extensive YouTube presence. I was surprised and delighted to find a cocktails section. They had a piece o...

Cheese Straws

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A very easy go to appetizer. They hold together nicely, and look quite pretty arranged as a "bouquet". Ingredients 5 oz grate...
Sunday, February 2, 2020

The easiest cheese souffle

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We had some friends over for lunch today. One of whom is French. I wanted an easy dish that takes 40 minutes to cook because we had other t...
Tuesday, December 3, 2019

Blood Orange Cake

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We were invited for dinner by some friends who are lactose intolerant. So the trick was to come up with a dessert with no dairy whatsoever....
Sunday, December 1, 2019

Buttermilk pie

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A year ago, a very good friend told me that he wanted a buttermilk pie for Thanksgiving. He had always enjoyed them as a child, but hadn...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Trying Eggs in the Circulator

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America's Test Kitchen showed a different way of "poaching" eggs recently. They refer to it as Sous Vide (but that is technic...
Sunday, September 29, 2019

pita

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An easy and impressive bread. There are a few tricks, but overall pretty straightforward. I use a 66% hydration dough for this - and much m...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Killer Brownies - Thanks Bravetart

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I have mentioned Stella Parks before. She has an amazing cookbook entitled "Bravetart"where she meticulously describes how to coo...
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Sunday, September 15, 2019

Chicken with grapes, garlic, vermouth and tarragon

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I have stolen this shamelessly from Jamie Oliver. It is such a good dish that I have now made it 4 or 5 times. It gets better with each sho...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

Tomatoes, mushrooms, charred romaine - oh my!

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On a trip around our local "Central Market" grocery store the other day, we had a snack of mushrooms/tomatoes/parmesan, etc. It w...
Monday, July 15, 2019

Testing creativity

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Madame is . just back from Europe and decided to have a creative time at the supermarket. Masses of green beans, red peppers, ginger showed...
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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Spring time pea soup - chilled

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Updated, Below. As with many new recipes, I start with posts from Serious Eats and work onward from there. This soup was a hit at a party. I...
Monday, March 18, 2019

Confit tomatoes

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I attended a sourdough class at Kuluntu in Dallas over the weekend. As well as it being an absorbing, informative and fun class, Stephanie ...
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Sunday, February 24, 2019

12 minutes 5 ingredients one pot

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Well it's not exactly 5 ingredients because one of the ingredients is tapenade (which itself has 5 ingredients - but who doesn't ha...
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Monday, February 11, 2019

Candied bacon

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It started innocently enough. We had been at a party on Saturday evening where someone had made this amazing candied bacon. I had neve...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Spicy BBQ Sauce

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The only reason that this recipe is interesting is because the standard recipe (from seriouseats.com ) that I intended to follow required W...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Potato Rolls

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This recipe makes soft rolls that are really good as sandwich bases. As usual, when baking I weigh things, so it may be tough to convert to...
Monday, September 3, 2018

Beef in a towel (Lomo Al Trapo)

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The folks at Serious Eats have done it again. Kenji posted about the method of cooking beef tenderloin in Colombia (where his wife is from)...
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Monday, August 6, 2018

Cinnamon buns - again

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My sister has been raving about some cinnamon buns that she had from a bakery in Cornwall. I have posted about these before. But whatever ...

Ajvar - red pepper and egg plant spread

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An article about the Balkan dish called ajvar appeared in the New York Times recently. It looked insanely good, so of course I had to make ...
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...