Yes, I do bake (get baked) on occasion. When I do, it’s usually nothing special. I don’t have enough baking experience to really screw around with the basics so I stick to recipes pretty closely. I did, however, alter the basic chocolate chip cookie this weekend. The results were fantastic! What I did was added some [...]
Archive for March, 2010
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Posted in Home Cooking, Sweets, tagged all-purpose flour, baking soda, brown sugar, butter, cane sugar, egg, kinako, peanut, salt, semi-sweet chocolate chips, soybeans, vanilla on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Doro Wat
Posted in Home Cooking, poultry, tagged basmati rice, berbere, cabbage, cardamom, chard, chicken stock, chicken thighs, chili powder, cinnamon, cloves, collard, crusaders, dried basil, ethiopia, garlic, ginger, green chili, ground ginger, hard-boiled eggs, injera, jewish, kale, kashrut, olive oil, onion, paprika, passover, pepper, red onion, red pepper, romans, sabbath, salt, stanley's, stewed greens, synagogue, teff, tomatoes, torah, turmeric, vegetable oil on March 10, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I was flipping through a Jewish cookbook that I have trying to find recipes for Passover when I came across a recipe for Doro Wat, the national dish of Ethiopia. At first, I was surprised to see this. As I thought about it though, there has been a Jewish community in Ethiopia for thousands of [...]
Chiles Rellenos Japonese
Posted in Home Cooking, Meatless Monday, tagged avocado, cherry tomatoes, chili powder, cilantro, diced tomatoes, garlic, green leaf lettuce, green onions, japanese, maitake, meatless monday, merida, mirin, olive oil, onion, poblano, red wine, sake, sesame oil, shiitake, soy sauce, tofu, vegetable oil, vinaigrette, white rice, yellow string beans on March 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been mulling this recipe over in my head since my trip to Merida. I wanted to somehow make a Japanese flavored Chiles Rellenos. Last night, for Meatless Monday, I gave it a shot. Not sure it’s exactly the way I had originally planned, but it turned out pretty good. First thing I did was [...]
Queso Fundido
Posted in Restaurant, tagged chorizo, cilantro, cozumel, dutch cheese, el fogoncito, flan, jalapenos, maraschino cherry, mayapan, merida, mexico, onions, pineapple, queso fundido, queso relleno, rick bayless, san benito market, spicy tomato sauce, tacos al pastor, tgi friday's, tortillas on March 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I must have driven my mom nuts with my quest to find the ultimate Queso Fundido in Merida. I was first turned on to the dish from a Rick Bayless ”Mexico: One Plate at a Time” episode. He was on scene in Merida at a restaurant I couldn’t find and they served him this big dish of [...]
Salbutes
Posted in Restaurant, tagged achiote, annotto, avocado, banana leaves, chicken, cumin, french fries, garlic, gecko, lettuce, lol tun, marinade, merida, onion, peppercorns, pollo pibil, pre-columbian, rice, salad, salbutes, salt, sour orange, spring, tomato, tortillas, turkey, yucatan on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
While we were in Merida we spent an afternoon walking through an ancient cave in the Yucatan called Lol Tun. In the Pre-Columbian days there were an estimated 800 people living in it. It really is an impressive site with the highlight possibly being the 15,000 year old reverse hand-print paintings on the cave walls. [...]
Soba with Tofu
Posted in Home Cooking, Meatless Monday, tagged aburage, beer, broth, carrots, dashi, green onions, konbu, meatless monday, mushrooms, soba, tofu, togarashi, wakame on March 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
After eating an entire feedlots’ worth of animal Sunday night we really needed Meatless Monday. We tried to make this one as healthy and simple as possible in order to ease the recent strain put on our tummies. Soba noodles, being about as healthy as you can get in the way of carbs, seemed like [...]
Salpicon
Posted in Restaurant, tagged avocado, bacon, berries, black beans, blue marlin, borrachos, brisket, cajeta, camarones, caramel, ceviche, chicken, chihuahua cheese, chiles, chiles rellenos, chipotles, chorizo, cilantro, cobbler, crepe, deep fried, flan, frijoles, garlic, gorditas divorciadas, guajillo, ice cream, jew, lentejas, lentil, mango, mexican crema, mojo de ajo, molcajete, mole, olive oil, onions, pasilla, pear, pineapple, poblano, pollo, pork picadillo, pork tenderloin, potato, queso anejo, queso fresco, rajas, restaurant week, rick bayless, roasted tomato, salpicon, salsa, serrano, shredded beef, shrimp, sopa, soup, sugar, tamales, tamalitos, tinga poblana, tomatillo, tomatoes, tortillas, tres leches, white rice, zucchini on March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I thought we were done with Restaurant Week, well, I thought wrong! A couple friends of ours had invited us to join them for dinner Saturday night at Salpicon. I’ve been there once before with my sister and brother-in-law, maybe 5 years ago. I remember walking away fully satisfied both in my belly as well [...]
