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 [...]
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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 [...]
Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes
N.B.: I make this all the time and we have no photo documentation of it because it gets eaten real fast. I have supplemented with an artist’s interpretations of what the potatoes are like. Ingredients: Potatoes (yukon golds are best) Whipping cream Butter salt to taste 1-2 bulbs of garlic olive oil Gloria will tell [...]
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 [...]
Merry Christmas cookies
Christmas (and Hanukkah) cookies! I might have gone a bit overboard with the dinosaur cookie cutter.
Dark chocolate-dipped hazelnut macaroons and baking disasters
So one of the problems with “I Know How to Cook” is that it is a translation, and like any translation, it is imperfect. Normally when cooking small mistakes are alright, but baking is difficult enough as it is without linguistic ambiguity making it harder. =\ The recipe below is the how I now interpret [...]
Brown Butter, Part II
I recently purchased a copy of “I Know How to Cook” by Ginette Mathiot, which is a translation of the French classic Je Sais Cuisiner. I’ve made a few things from it already, and here’s one of my favorites so far: Sole à la meunière (Translation: Fancy-ass fish sticks.) 1 lb Dover sole filets* salt, [...]
Una cena típica de mi niñez
Everyone is familiar with the Mexican tortilla (“wut tacos &c r made of”), but in Spainish cuisine, a tortilla is a thick omelet which contains layers of (usually) potatoes and onions, and occasionally other Spanishy ingredients (tuna, chorizo, tomatoes, and cheese are common). This delightful dish is a staple of Spanish cuisine and is usually [...]
Delicious Cake + Respberry Meringue Buttercream
Last year, Ryan gave me two cookbooks for Christmas: one devoted to cake, and one devoted to bacon. He knows me pretty well. Now, baking is still a strange and terrifying world to me. I have to battle my tendency to be extremely impatient. It stresses me out to think that the slightest deviation from [...]
Brown Butter, Part I
This embarrassingly simple recipe does in a pinch for dinner, especially when you want something easy and uncomplicated, yet good enough to impress a boy (or a girl)! I used to consider butter cheating… but have you ever tasted this stuff? IT’S AWESOME Chicken breasts in sage brown butter (with polenta!) Serves 2 to a [...]