Warm Beet Salad with Sushi Ginger Dressing
I like adding sushi ginger to beets because it enhances the vegetables sweetness while adding a tanginess to the salad which really...
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Dec 2, 2020
Steak au Poivre
I used beef tournedos for this but any kind of steak will work. For a minimum amount of work, you get an excellent dinner that tastes as...
Nov 9, 2020
Meatloaf
I was not a huge fan of meatloaf growing up. My mom didn't make it and, the rare times that I ate it at a friend's house it always tasted...
Sep 24, 2020
Veggie Loaded Tomato Sauce for Bolognese/An Excellent Base for Autumn Soup
I had a lot of tomatoes and a fair amount of carrots that I wanted to use up, and I planned on adding a bunch of kale to the mix as well,...
Jun 8, 2020
Lacquered Bone-In Grilled Ribeye with Caramelized Red Onion
Contrary to my usual recipes for four people, this is for one. L. decided that he would prefer to have the accompanying salad with cheese...
May 26, 2020
Sticky Soy Boneless Beef Short Ribs
Making these is a lengthy process - they marinate overnight and cook for several hours - but not a very difficult one. The hardest part...
Dec 16, 2019
Chopped Sirloin and Vegetable Stuffed Cabbage Bundles with Beef Tea
Even as a child I was an anglophile and enjoyed the kind of fiction where children who were ill were sent to bed with barley water or...
Nov 25, 2019
Oxtail and Red Wine Stew with Mushrooms and Lentil Gravy
When I lived in France I would often get oxtail at the local butcher's because it was cheap and easy to cook. With very little hands on...
Oct 5, 2019
Meatballs for Spaghetti and Meatballs
These meatballs are delicious - tender and juicy and flavorful (if I do say so myself). The recipe makes 12 large meatballs but I would...
Aug 12, 2019
Keema Curry
Sometimes you want a quick curry and are not in the mood for long simmering stocks and carefully gauged layering of spices. This curry...
Apr 25, 2019
Tomates Farcies
In my first year of married life, I lovingly made a pan of these for dinner. I used my mother-in-law's very labor intensive recipe and...
Apr 17, 2019
Red Wine Butter Sauce for Beef
This is a quick and delicious sauce for beef; a slightly upscale jus basically. You can make it it just a few minutes as your steak rests....
Mar 3, 2019
Chopped Sirloin Burgers with Bacon and Cheddar
Hand chopped top notch sirloin, smoked apple wood bacon, melted cheddar , the options of tomato, avocado, red onion, pickle and ketchup...
Feb 6, 2019
Short Rib and Vegetable Pot Pie
To say that I was pleased with myself after making this is a bit of an understatement. Those of you who subscribe to this blog know that...
Jan 7, 2019
Beef and Vegetable Stew
Beef stew with root vegetables, 2 kinds of mushroom, Cipollini mushrooms and a stock made of water, red wine and Marmite. Simple, easy...
Dec 17, 2018
Slow Roasted Short Ribs with Coconut Milk and Lemongrass
I am not going to post this recipe - yet. There were a lot of pros such as the way all the aromatics melted together to make a silky...
Sep 29, 2018
Soboru Donburi with Pea Shoots
Apparently it is Asia week chez us. This dish is a riff on one that the grandmother at my Hokkaido home-stay family used to make for me....
Feb 9, 2018
Short Rib Tacos with all the Fixings
Short ribs were on sale again so it seemed a good time to make this dish. Also, having opened a can of chilis in adobo sauce for...
Nov 13, 2015
Carnivore's Veggie Burger
Sometimes there is nothing like a burger. I don't eat huge amounts of cave man-y animal protein but occasionally nothing will do but red...
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