Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
Crispy Pork Wonton Made crispy (deep fried) pork wonton mostly following this recipe. The major difference was the substitution of ground pork instead of pork tenderloin. It was crispy and edible, but lacks serious oomph. This could be because I undersalted it. I had really fresh ginger and garlic and green onions, […]
I have to make these someday. Drools. http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Crispy-Pork-Carnitas/ Crispy Pork Carnitas Rated: Submitted By: Chef John Photo By: Chef John Prep Time: 15 Minutes Cook Time: 3 Hours 40 Minutes Ready In: 3 Hours 55 Minutes Servings: 6 “Enjoy Chef John’s recipe for crispy pork carnitas in a taco for one of the world’s best meals.” INGREDIENTS: 3 pounds boneless pork […]
Made chocolate sugar cookies and vanilla sugar cookies following these recipes: Chocolate Sugar Cookies Ingredients 1 cup butter, softened 1 1/2 cups brown sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla 3/4 cup cocoa powder 2 cups all purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup granulated sugar for rolling Watch How This Expert […]
Made hummus – it was okay. I need a bigger food processor and fresher (not expired) tahini sauce to do it right. Cooking chickpeas overnight was a cinch. Just turn on a slow cooker and go away! http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/hummus-for-real-recipe.html Ingredients 1 pound Slow Cooker Chickpeas, cooled, recipe follows 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 1/2 teaspoons kosher […]
Made refried pinto beans with just salt, bacon grease, and a pastry blender. Realized that consistency really does matter — it makes it more smooth. Next time get an immersion blender. Also learned that there is more to really good beans than just fat and salt. Next time, I ought to try this recipe: http://www.adn.com/2014/05/03/3454503/alaska-from-scratch-for-cinco.html […]
Pan fried fish use unhealthy amount of olive oil (2 tblsp?) and melt in 1 tblsp of butter. Bring to high heat in non-stick pan. wash fish. sprinkle with S&P on one side, place salted side down into hot oil. S&P other side of fish. turn fish over after fish starts to brown on […]
Basic Rice Pilaf First successful Isakeism flavored rice. 1 can chicken broth 1 1/3 cup of long grain enruched rice 1 tblsp bacon grease 1 tsp cumin seeds salt to taste toast rice in bacon grease. add in cumin seeds. boil in rice cooker with chicken broth and salt to taste.
20140221 Spaghetti bolognese recipe to try! http://www.cookscountry.com/recipes/6638-spaghetti-bolognese-for-two WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS: Authentic Bolognese sauce is slow-simmered for hours. The wait is worth it when you want to impress a table full of guests, but for our double serving size we wanted something quicker. We boosted the flavor fast by adding hearty pancetta, dried porcini mushrooms, […]
spaghetti notes 20140209 Made mushroom spaghetti and meatballs and spaghetti Learning more about spaghetti still — I proud of these two because I made them both in 30 minutes flat. Start ~3 quarts of water boiling, preheated oven to 400 F. start peeling garlic, I did 5 cloves, ~3 cloves would have been good. […]
20140208 white sandwich bread Made a couple of loaves of white bread today. I made the bread of top, the BLT is made with that bread in the middle, and the bottom pic is Grace’s bread — it has a crack because Grace didn’t score the bread. Her bread was more flavorful because she […]