Today I did something I love to do. Just visited a bunch of markets and bought a bunch of random ingredients for the week. Tonight was a fresh take on what I discovered. There is a great Vietnamese market just down the road where they had Golden Pompano on sale. A while ago a friend …
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Back on the Documenting Horse
Getting back into documenting what we do in our house to try to make dinner a bit more interesting Today we are talking about how our cooking has changed since I started documenting how I cook. For full disclosure, we have moved from DC to LA and are still figuring California out. Today it was …
Fridge Cleaner
It was another one of those Fridays when we had something in the fridge but the planned meal wasn’t what we wanted. Since it is a Friday, we had a bit more time to make a ragu. What was supposed to be a lamb shawarma became a ragu with egg noodles. For the ragu: 1.5 …
Pork Belly Bao
Pork belly was on sale and I really wanted to try to make it as most of my attempts have been fatty, oily messes. The meat and fat were good but the skin was hard to the point of being inedible. This one started with my new obsession of trying to better understand curing meat, …
Simple Grill Fish and Vegetables
Tonight was simple fish and vegetables. There were only really 6 ingredients to the whole dinner: 1 albacore tuna steak (small salmon filet for my son) head cauliflower, trying to make steaks 2 zucchini mandolin thinly sliced salt and pepper Canola oil Just a light coating of oil, salt, and pepper on everything and grilled. …
Iron Steak Tacos
The iron steak was on sale this weekend. I have no idea what that was but we had to turn it into a taco. Two day marinade to get it tender, grill it on high heat and we have something to work with. It was good but not great but that was probably due to …
Indian Night
Tonight was an Indian night with a beige theme. It has been so nice since we got back that we did all we could on the grill. We tried a new naan recipe tonight because I forgot to buy an extra yogurt and used kefir and milk instead, this is going to stick. For our …
Grilled Pizza
We have officially entered grilling season and one our favorites is grilled pizza. Our grill can get way hotter than our oven and it doesn’t heat up the house in the summer. Tonight, it was more about dodging the rain than heating up the house. We made four different pizzas tonight, one for my son, …
Grilled lamb burgers with quinoa salad
We made it back from vacation where we ate way too many tacos and way too much raw fish. Our trip to San Diego was a success while enjoying relaxing, nature, and food; the only things that matter in life. We manage to hike, kayak, swim, eat, and see super cool stuff. If you ever …
Ribs, beans and coleslaw
We have no pictures. We made dinner and ate it. It was good. Sorry. I worked from home today and at lunch made some ribs in the oven at 225. The basic idea was that I would make the long part of dinner while I worked and then finish with some beans and slaw. For …
Working Dad Cooks 