Documenting a year of cooking experiences
My son has class on Thursday night and I tend to work from home on Thursdays which means that I have a little bit of extra time to put together dinner. This week was a roast chicken with root vegetables and yellow beans. I love roast chicken since there are so many different ways to …
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While we made Chili last weekend, we also made a quiche to have an easy dinner later in the week. Super easy and only about 2 minutes of active time. This time we had a ton of spinach we were using for salads and needed to use it up. So quiche Lorraine with spinach. 2 …
Chili is a bone of contention in our household and not for the usual beans or no beans. My contention is that chili should be made with small cubed meat. My wife believes that ground meat is the only way to go. Since I made it, I got to chose. This is another of those …
Sometimes things just fall in your lap. When we went to the market sea scallops were on sale and we bought them as a special treat. My idea was a nice clean and refreshing dinner to complement one of my favorite foods. Before our son came along, my wife order a dozen live sea scallops …
As you may be learning, I like to marinate meat and ferment dough overnight for the next day. We eat a lot of flatbread in our house from all across the world. The biggest thing I have learned over the last couple years is that flatbreads are easy to make and only take a short …
My wife was going to be working late so last Sunday we put together a dozen quick empanadas. For the dough 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder pinch of salt 1/2 cup shortening 1/2 cup milk Mix together first three ingredients in food processor to combine. Add shortening and whiz until it looks like …
For the past year, I have been trying a figure out how to imitate David Chang’s Bao Char Siu recipe with my own twist. Now that the holiday season is over, no more long stews and back to figuring out how to make good food in short time. After cleaning up from the rabbit stew, …
My mother-in-law came into town for my son’s birthday and we thought we would make a little rabbit stew for her to try something new. We have two different places where we can buy rabbit near us: an Asian market or a butcher shop. There is a definite difference in price and quality between the …
9 years ago today we welcomed our son as the first born in Poudre Valley Hospital at 12:21am of 2010. As with every year, he gets to choose what he wants to eat. This year, nothing fancy, just spaghetti and meatballs. What a great way to get the year started. Our tomato sauce is really …
Having spent the better part of the last decade cooking for my family and a couple decades before that cooking for myself, I realized not too long ago that I actually enjoy it. The transition period between work me and home me is best done while making dinner for the family. Kneading dough, butchering a …
Working Dad Cooks 