Monthly Archives: May 2012

chorizo tacos with cornmeal tortillas

Posted on May 27, 2012 by admin

For dinner we cooked a relatively straight-forward recipe of cornmeal tortillas wrapped around a fresh chorizo filling. The chorizo recipe was pretty simple: cut six dried chili peppers off the braid that hangs on one cabinet, dry toast them in … Continue reading →

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rice pudding with raisins and cinnamon

Posted on May 21, 2012 by admin

From the Bon Appetit cookbook, I made rice pudding. It was a good – not great – result, but the amount of work was a bit excessive. I’ve made poor-man’s rice pudding before by just mixing rice, milk, sugar, and … Continue reading →

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marinated skirt steak

Posted on May 21, 2012 by admin

  From Best of the Best 13. The first bite of this didn’t blow me away, but around bite four or five I realized how really solid this recipe is. The intro to the recipe reads: Skirt steak has a … Continue reading →

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ribeye and grilled vegetables

Posted on May 21, 2012 by admin

We made marinated ribeye steaks and grilled vegetables. I forget where the recipe came from. A- as I recall. Because, honestly: rib-eye!

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mousaka, dolmades, and tzatziki from The Parthenon Cookbook

Posted on May 21, 2012 by admin

The stand-out cooking event of the last few weeks was clearly the mousaka, dolmades, and tzatziki from The Parthenon Cookbook. This dinner almost killed us. I think I started cooking around 5pm one day and at around 8:30 we decided … Continue reading →

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Bobby Flay’s beef skewers with piquillo steak sauce

Posted on May 21, 2012 by admin

We’ve been cooking a lot of big-chunks-of-meat recently. The beef skewers with piquillo steak sauce (Bobby Flay’s recipe in Food & Wine’s Best of the Best 12 ) got an A-, and that’s even with me shortening the marinade time … Continue reading →

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chorizo sliders with apricot sauce and roasted eggplant with tahini

Posted on May 9, 2012 by admin

From Food & Wine’s Best of the Best Cook Recipes vol 13(or as I call it “BOB 13″), I made chorizo sliders with potato sticks and apricot-ketchup sauce. Meh. It was like Mexican sloppy joes. “Oooh, I know, let’s add … Continue reading →

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more from Mourad

Posted on May 3, 2012 by admin

Jennifer wanted to have some more Moroccan, specifically lamb, so I went back to Mourad and flipped through the index. Four or five lamb recipes to choose from, but we didn’t want to get too spendy, so we picked one … Continue reading →

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