let’s get fat and sassy
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, pepper, flour, milk
1 [...]
MUTTON
Okay not really. This is going to be short and sweet.
WHAT YOU NEED:
Pork Chops
Parmesan Cheese (flaked if possible, shredded if not)
Italian Breadcrumbs (homemade or otherwise)
~2 eggs
Salt, pepper, spices as you desire
Canola Oil
This is incredibly easy. First grab three good sized bowls large enough to dredge the chops through. Fill teh first with your parmesan, crack [...]
This is a take on a chilaquiles recipe I found while browsing Epicurious, but with cornbread replacing deep-fried corn tortillas. Chilaquiles is essentially “Mexican lasagna” in that it is a baked casserole, made by alternating layers of starch, meat, cheese, and other tasty things. It was experimental and—while delicious—the recipe we used needs tweaking, so [...]
I mentioned in my “randomly getting to meet Nobuo Uematsu for free” post that I tasty food beforehand. I went with my friends Chris and Steve, who were visiting from Santa Cruz to see some dessicated corpse in a museum or something. Here is a picture of them eating brunch the next day and looking [...]
Cheese. Wine. Chicken. What more could you need? If the answer is “corn bread stuffing,” this recipe still has you covered.
(EDITED recipe to avoid over-cheesing)
Before I tried this, I thought of mushrooms as just another thing to fill out some chunky omelette. It turns out that the gamy taste of (non-flavorless) mushrooms goes very well with egg. The egg goes from being reasonably tasty protein ‘n fat to tasting like the meat of some delicious [...]
Make me a calzone as fast as you can!
So in the search for all things decadent and bad for me (curse you, ‘betus!) I came across something that was delicious despite the fact that it doesn’t aggravate my blood sugar at all! Heart problems are another matter entirely, but I ain’t seventy yet!
Here is a recipe I’ve cobbled together from several different sources, complete [...]
I went to restaurants and cooked in exotic locales. Let me tell you some things.
1. FUCK YOU, GUATEMALA. For the love of God, don’t go to Guatemala anticipating a beautiful meal that tastes delicious. The local meats are no good, and cow doesn’t have ‘cuts’ so much as ‘parts that probably came off of a [...]
As some of you may know from twitter, I recently purchased ramekins from Amazon, only to discover upon their arriving that they are “not open flame or broiler safe.” Since approximately 99% of my justification for buying ramekins was to make crèmes brûlées* every day (and die of a heart attack at 24), this was [...]