Recipes & Cooking Notes
Recipes & Cooking Notes
Made pork butt largely following this recipe: http://www.chow.com/recipes/30356-easy-slow-cooker-pulled-pork Good rub. Browing, as stated, doesn’t seem to add much to the dish. Might add more salt next time, but salting less is probably better during cooking because sauce can be added later. Cooked on high for about 5 hours. Seemed to work fine. Ingredients 2 medium yellow onions, […]
Tried to make wide rice noodle. It was decent, but next time I need to add less oil, and more black bean sauce. I had no black bean sauce, so it didn’t have that much flavor. I also didn’t have bean sprouts or gai-lan, which would have lightened the dish. Made it loosely following […]
Made this savory chickpea salad with grilled chicken when I had overcooked some chickpeas. I didn’t have time/energy to make full out masala, so I just made the onions with all the masala ingredients (chipotle pepper, masala spices, no tumeric, chopped dried serrano), and then combined it with the chickpeas. The result still tastes […]
Chicken and Onion stir fry Continuing to learn how to stir fry. This time, made it with a chinese marinade, and used the wok – INDOORS! It worked! You heat the wok until it just wisps a little smoke. Then you add oil, “hot wok, cold oil”, and then stir fry. Spread out the […]
Tried to make pork and pepper stir fry in the steel skillet. It worked OK, not much wok hei, but for this portion, it got plenty hot. Marinated the pork beforehand in shaoxing wine, soy sauce, and garlic powder for about 2 hours. Mainly wanted to write to say that stir frying at westwood […]
Made fettuccine alfredo with garlic and onion largely based off this recipe: Ingredients 1 pound fettuccine noodles 1 stick butter 1 cup heavy cream Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 cups freshly grated Parmesan Directions Cook the pasta according to package directions. In a saucepan or skillet over low heat, warm the butter […]
To go with the tamales I made salsa de aguacate/avocado salsa. I was hoping the make the southwest green salsa I keep getting at restaurants, but it ended up more like an avocado sauce with some tang due to the tomatillos. It’s still good. update 20141215: I asked Reina how she makes her green salsa, […]
update 20141214: Made the tamales! They are quite tasty! First successful batch. Mostly followed the advice from the youtube video. You should definately watch the whole video before trying the first time. Tamales are a time consuming food, so a 30 min how-to video is worth it. Joepastry was a good start, but not the […]
20141212 chinese “Jin’s” style dumplings I posted before on how to make dumplings meat, but didn’t post proportions, wrappers, etc. I made it again recently, and I’d thought I write down what the measurements are: For approximately 30 dumplings 1 lb HEB brand ground pork (80:20) — no broth injected meat 1:60 ratio salt for […]
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 […]