Documenting a year of cooking experiences
Slow cooked Sunday is going strong. I saw that short ribs were on sale so that is what we are having. Decided to do a tomato beef broth liquid and then mashed potatoes are always a family favorite. Super weird that they had English peas already this year but not complaining as fresh peas are …
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My whole family likes to sit around the kitchen and slowly eat all evening. We call these appetizer dinners where we just pull up chairs around the counter and things come out every 15 minutes or so. Tonight, we made the duck prosciutto the highlight but my wife also said she wanted stuffed grape leaves. …
Today marks a turning point in this year’s experiments. We opened up the duck prosciutto today and holy cow was it good. We have a couple changes to the recipe but over all, curing meats may become my new past time. Our process was twofold. First, we let the duck breast sit in kosher salt …
Today is National Margarita Day but my wife likes Palomas better so we had carnitas tacos and Palomas. Came home a bit early from work so was able to do a quick carnitas while finishing up emails and going and getting the kid. Only 3 hours but still turned out pretty well. The spread was …
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It’s my birthday and my wife is cooking tonight. I really like simple foods as was given the choice for dinner so baked fish, garlic noodles, and broccoli slaw. Nothing too fancy just simple, well cooked food. For the dressing for broccoli slaw: 1 1/2 C refrigerated coconut milk salt and pepper 1/8 C white …
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Another of those, let’s just randomly choose a recipe from someplace we trust and see what happens. Of course we tweaked as we made to make it a bit better. Overall, it just needed a bit more flavor then we were thinking it would deliver. Our recipe is based on the Bon Appetit’s Chicken and …
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My wife and I were doing what middle aged liberals do on a Sunday morning, reading the Washington Post on our phones and tablets. Sitting across the room I received an email about what we should make sometime this week. We used a Wapo recipe as a starting point for dinner tonight. There are really …
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Tonight we serve a traditional 1980’s midwestern dinner, meat, starch, and vegetable. Nothing fancy but filling and maybe even a little healthy. To start, we first made a simple marinade that we probably should have made the night before but wasn’t thinking about it. Then while the meat was marinating made the sweet potatoes. While …
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My trusty assistant wanted to join me in the kitchen this afternoon because it was supposed to snow. My son really likes making pasta and we should do it more often. We teamed up some rag pasta with a long cook bolognese. For the bolognese we did: 1 medium onion, roughly chopped 2 carrots, roughly …
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Lazy Saturday and we didn’t really want to do anything after family yoga. The plan was to pick up some ground meat, buns, lettuce, tomatoes, and some frozen tater tots and just have some simple cheeseburgers. 4pm and I realized that I forgot to grab a bag of frozen tater tots. I had some leftover …
