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Sausage, Potato, and Kale Soup
Before I forget, I wanted to mention that I made this soup from Pioneer Woman, the Sausage, Potato, and Kale Soup, which is apparently a copycat recipe from Olive Garden, which I haven’t been to in about 10 years or so. But I have to say, if their food is like this, I should probably make [...]
My kinsfolk does take meat
Chris stumbled upon this recipe in a spam blog while searching the worldwide intertubes for “fuck spaghetti.” For posterity: Easy Vegetarian Spaghetti You could try making this, if you can figure out what “1 crapper spaghetti sauce intermixture – (26.5 oz)” means. It does claim that “This instruction module help most quaternary people.”
Slow-roasted Spiced Pork Belly
The next few posts are going to be from the backlog, since there are several posts I’ve been meaning to make. The following dish I’ve made twice, and it’s turned out pretty good both times. Pork belly is a cut of meat that’s not often used directly in Western cooking, though it’s the cut that’s [...]
Fried Chicken, Good Eats style
It seems bizarre, but prior to this, I had never made proper southern style fried chicken. Sure, I’d dipped a few boneless chicken pieces in breadcrumbs and fries until golden brown, but there’s a world of difference when you do it right. My guide was the episode of Good Eats, Fry Hard 2 [Part 1, [...]
Biiru (desu)
So I’m not much of a beer person, but there are a lot of recipes I like making with beer. I got some Murphy’s Irish Stout, which was really interesting. It’s a very, very bitter dark beer, but all the reviews were right: for the first sip, I would have sworn I was drinking iced [...]
Steak au Poivre
If you don’t own it already, buy Alton Brown’s “I’m Just Here for the Food” and read it from cover to cover. There’s a lot of stuff there that makes a good foundation for why a dish works, or how it can get screwed up. Making this dish, I was reminded of how I started [...]
Kielbasa sausage pilaf
In general, I find myself cooking dinner, on a budget, with not a lot of time after work. I’m trying to get in better shape as well, so the food I make on a regular basis needs to be: Healthy Cheap Delicious Fast Roughly in that order of importance. Most of the recipes I’ll post [...]