Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
20141123 wonton noodle soup made wonton noodle soup loosely following this recipe: http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/04/chinese-noodles-101-how-to-make-wonton-noodle.html soaked mushrooms in cold tap water for a few hours. reserved soak water. rinsed, boiled for 10 min in sugar and cornstarch. that did cook it a bit, but I should have added some salt to the shittake mushrooms — they are […]
20141119 snickerdoodles made snickerdoodles following this recipe: a great recipe with good annotations about flour used, how to measure salt properly, etc. Another thing I found helpful was that the shape of the cookie dough as it’s placed on the baking sheet matters — a perfectly round ball will yield a perfectly round cookie. A […]
20141116 tried to make barbacoa following this recipe: Barbacoa YIELD: ABOUT 8-12 SERVINGS BARBACOA This barbacoa recipe is simple to make in your slow cooker, and makes the most tender, flavorful, delicious barbacoa beef. PREP: 10 MIN COOK: 4 HOURS 10 MIN TOTAL: 4 HOURS 20 MIN INGREDIENTS: 3 lbs chuck roast (fat trimmed), cut into 2-inch chunks 4 cloves […]
20141109 Tried to make tamales this past weekend. I think the filling turned out really well, but bread-and-butter of a tamale is the masa. And we had two failed attempt at it. Most of the info is based on joepastry: http://www.joepastry.com/2012/making-classic-tamales/ But the more experience I get, the less I trust joe pastry’s tamale instructions. […]
Made borracho beans based on an amalgam of recipes, probably mostly followed the first one below, then derived inspiration from these other ones: http://www.insockmonkeyslippers.com/borracho-beans-pinto-beans-in-broth http://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/pinto_beans_with_bacon_and_jalapenos/ Borracho Beans with Shiner Bock Beer I soaked 1 lb sorted pinto beans overnight with 6 cups water. I then brought 8 cups of water to a boil, added the […]