Salt Block Cooking – Bacon and Eggs
This doesn’t need much description. Just bask in the salty glow:
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Artichokes and Pork Chops
I let my 6 year old son pick dinner the other night. He picked steamed artichokes and grilled pork chops. I love that kid. This is the first time I’d cooked artichokes since my interview with Jason Webley, and let me tell you, I can’t look at them the same way ever again! I felt…
Salt Block Cooking – Japanese Steak Frites
First things first…this was totally cool and fun!! We actually started discussing putting some sort of exhaust fan over our dining room table so we could do this at the table rather than in the kitchen. Next time we’ll do it outside instead so everyone can participate and cook their own food on the block….
Grilled Snapper with Quinoa Salad
It has been like summer here in the Bay area this week. Actually more like summer than our cold summer was! Inspired by the sun, I thought I’d grill. This was easy and turned out to be great! First I made a vinaigrette of: 1 large shallot, minced 1 large clove of garlic, finely minced…
Easy, Tasty Red Sauce
It’s gotten cold and rainy. When that happens, I start making more pasta and soup. More comfort foods. More warming, cozy foods. One of the easiest is usually pasta with red sauce. 2 onions, chopped 3 oz pancetta, diced (optional for vegetarians…not optional otherwise!) Cook down until onions are soft and starting to brown. Add…
No Reason, Just a Fantastic Meal…with salt
Some friends came over for dinner last night and I decided I would go all out and make a multi-course extravaganza. We’ve been touting the excellence of Mark Bitterman’s new book, Salted: A Manifesto on the World’s Most Essential Mineral, with Recipes, to anyone who will listen so I made sure to highlight salts in…
Cucumber Gazpacho and Grilled Lingcod with Eggplant-Walnut Puree
4 medium cucumbers (mine were actually pickling cukes) 2 small zucchini 2 cloves garlic 3T lemon juice A small handful of basil 5-6 mint leaves salt and pepper Put all that in a blender or food processor and zap it until it’s soup! I garnished with some chopped chives, a couple of quartered cherry tomatoes…
Rosemary and Red Wine Barbecued Chicken
I didn’t eat meat for years. Not because of ethics or anything like that, I just stopped liking it. One day, a while back, I thought “BBQ chicken sounds good.” Not the kind with barbecue sauce on it but herbed, marinated chicken. This is what I had and it’s still my favorite way to barbecue….
Roast Chicken with Leeks and Sage, and Fava Bean Bruschetta
Exhausted from vacation…aren’t they tiring? I had a chicken, I had leeks from my CSA, I have sage in the garden. That’s a meal right there! 1 whole chicken 3 leeks, chopped 1/4 cup butter (sliced into pats) 10-12 sage leaves (4 leaves chopped, leave the rest whole) 1-2 T chopped fresh thyme Salt, pepper,…
Before and After – Potato Leek Soup
Before: 2 leeks, chopped 2 green garlics, white and pale green parts, chopped 3 small carrots, diced Saute all that in some butter until everything is soft. Add 1 cup white wine and cook most of it off. 4 medium potatoes, peeled and chopped 4 c. chicken stock Add to pot, bring almost to a…
CSA Bounty
Whatever shall I make this week!?!? So many yummy choices! Can’t wait to get cookin’: Sprouts ‘salad’ mix – sunflower, pea, buckwheat, broccoli and radish Fuji apples Artichokes Red beets Cabbage Carrots Rainbow chard Collard “rapini” Green garlic Red Russian kale Leeks French breakfast radishes Rutabagas Strawberries
Barbecued Trout with Fennel and Orange Salad
This is an easy, quick, yummy meal for those days that are just screaming for barbecue. This recipe is for 2 people. 2 trout fillets, each about 1/2 lb 4T Green Peppercorns Olive oil Salt Crust the peppercorns with a mortar and pestle if you have one or zap them a few times in the…
Easy, Yummy, Inspired-by-Pho Dinner
Update (February 2013) I’ve changed my approach to pho, now with more pork because that’s always better! Take 3-4 lbs of pork bones and roast them in the oven at 400° until they are golden. Put that in a pot with 6-8 cups of water instead of the chicken stock mentioned below. The rest of…
Quinoa with Garbanzo Beans
I was putting pictures of this dish on Twitter, but decided it was so good I needed to put a detailed recipe up. Take one can garbanzo beans, rinse, and stir in two or three tablespoons lemon juice, a minced garlic clove, and some good olive oil. Set that aside and let it marinate for…
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