Recipes:
This is a complicated recipe. It takes a couple of days to do properly, and works best done with a slow-cooker. But it's worth it. It's a Taiwanese dish - a spicy beef noodle soup. It's pretty much the...
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Posted on March 14, 2008 8:08 PM • 10 Comments •
This recipe is based on a recipe for Moroccan spiced duck breasts, from The Soul of a New Cuisine, Marcus Samuelsson's new African cookbook. Chef Samuelsson is the guy who's responsible for getting me to eat beef after not...
Posted on February 29, 2008 7:42 PM • 6 Comments •
One of the staples of chinese cooking is fried rice. Unfortunately, what we get in American restaurants when we order fried rice is dreadful stuff. The real thing is absolutely wonderful - and very different from the American version....
Posted on January 25, 2008 11:21 AM • 14 Comments •
I'm a big fish eater. In general, given a choice about what to eat, I'm usually happiest when I get to eat a nice fish. Even now that I've started eating beef again, most of the time, I'd rather...
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Posted on January 18, 2008 4:29 PM • 12 Comments •
I recently started eating beef again, after 18 years of abstaining. Last weekend, I made a big batch of Chili using beef, and it was fantastic. So I thought that was a good excuse to give you my chili...
Posted on December 7, 2007 12:20 PM • 15 Comments •
Because of the holiday, I'm posting my recipe early this week. It's actually too late, but I don't let little things like reality worry me. This is my thanksgiving turkey stuffing. The origins of this stuffing date back to...
Posted on November 22, 2007 12:23 PM • 7 Comments •
This is a very simple, authentic chinese dish. It's a great example of what real chinese food is like - it's a lot lighter and more delicate than what's typically passed off as Chinese food in the US. You...
Posted on November 16, 2007 8:15 PM • 10 Comments •
One of my favorite comfort foods is a mac&cheese tuna casserole. That's real mac&cheese, not any of that glow in the dark orange garbage. It amazes me just how many people have never actually had a proper, home-made macaroni...
Posted on November 2, 2007 8:58 PM • 13 Comments •
Lo Mein is one of the staples of Chinese restaurants in the US. In general, it's not bad, but it's a bit greasy, and a bit bland. This version of it is closer to authentic, and has a really...
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Posted on October 5, 2007 8:32 PM • 7 Comments •
The year before our first kid was born, my wife and I went on vacation in Budapest. It was a beautiful city, and the food was wonderful - I particularly loved the chicken paprikash that they seemed to server...
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Posted on September 28, 2007 2:10 PM • 11 Comments •
Since the friday pathological programming died out, I've been looking for something else to do for special friday posts. A while back, I posted a bunch of recipes for a mutant meme, and it seemed a lot of people...
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Posted on September 21, 2007 10:09 AM • 24 Comments •
