For the next couple of days I’m staying with my college friend Ryan in the Chicago “gayborhood” (god I hate portmanteaux). He’s a lactose-intolerant vegetarian, which means he’s a vegan most of the time. I thought it would be nice to thank him for letting me stay at his place by trying my hand at [...]
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Minestrone
This recipe is delicious, easy to make, and yields a massive amount of food! It would be perfect when you have company over, or when you want to save on meals for a week and don’t mind eating the same thing every day.
Recipe is from Food Network’s Michael Chiarello, who was that [...]
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 used [...]
Risotto, the food of the gods
In which I have a food-related epiphany. (Hint: it’s about risotto, and its amazingness.)
White Vegetarian Chili
I have been trying to cut down on meat lately for health reasons, which will go one of two ways as far as you all are concerned:
Lots of yummy vegetarian recipes posted here!
I become lazy and eat a lot of peanut butter and jelly.
So far I’m still being relatively un-lazy, so I modified my mom’s [...]
beefs
In case you were wondering, Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon IS that complicated. Spelling it right is, too. Kim and I set out to recreate this epic dish and, even starting as a two-person team, it was still about a six-hour process. I also don’t know how Amy Adams had time to fall asleep, because there [...]
Taiwan Day 1: Orange Shabu
I couldn’t decide between two openers for this post, so this is now a choose your own adventure blog.
OPTION 1:
I think it would be easy to reduce crime if you told people that heaven were like dining at Orange Shabu.
OPTION 2:
I HAVE HAD WAGYU BEEF SHABU SHABU: BEHOLD MY WORKS YE MIGHTY AND DESPAIR.
A few [...]
As in “happy as a”
Here are some facts about clams:
They are delicious! While they steam they emit this stunningly tasty broth. Look into it.
They are cheap, esp. for seafood! $5/lb is the price for Manila clams down at the Berkeley Bowl, and that is definitely enough to feed two people.
When you buy them… they are STILL ALIVE. Creepy, eh?
This [...]
Café Zuni chicken dinner and poached pears
The other day I made my very first “real” chicken dinner. I had been meaning to try this recipe for roast chicken, but I didn’t want it to suck and then leave my three roommates hungry. They’re all back in snowy Virginia now, so I thought it would be a good time to try.
The recipe [...]
Beer Battered Fish
Sometimes you just want something fried in delicious oil. That is how I felt last night when deciding on how to make dinner without having to go get more ingredients from the store. Luckily, I had some frozen fish (the basa swai variety), flour (that Jo had spilled yeast into, but it makes no difference [...]