Archive for the ‘Pork’ Category
Tuesday, January 9th, 2024
Sous vide is a method of cooking where the food is cooked by being sealed in a plastic bag and submerged in a precisely temperature controlled water bath. It makes cooking things to the exact preferred level of doneness very easy, and while it can take awhile, it's all passive ...
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Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024
Hoppin' John is black eyed peas cooked with pork, served over rice and often accompanied by some sort of greens. It's traditional, especially in the southern United States to serve on New Year's day. Filling, delicious, and easy to make, we started making this a couple years ago. I often ...
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Friday, October 6th, 2023
We fell even more in love with Japanese cuisine when Shaun did a tour of duty over in Yokosuka several years ago. Japanese curry is a common comfort food over there, easy to make with just about whatever you have on hand, tasty, filling, and decently well balanced nutritionally. If ...
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Saturday, April 18th, 2015
We're back on the menu planning wagon and got some excellent dinners this week.
Rosemary garlic roasted lamb with pears and brussels sprouts
A couple more hits from The Complete Cooking For Two Cookbook.
Pork chops with port wine and cherry sauce
Maple and bourbon glazed pork tenderloin
I liked the first a ...
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Sunday, April 12th, 2015
This recipe was inspired by the pork tacos with mango salsa in the excellent The Complete Cooking For Two Cookbook.
I say inspired by, because we immediate proceeded to change just about everything. I'm sure it's an awesome recipe, but it also provided us with a great way to use ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2015
This is a healthy, easy bake for breakfast. I made this last night and enjoyed a piece for breakfast this morning. I let it go a bit long in the oven, so it's a bit more brown in the picture than I was aiming for, but it's still ...
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2015
This is a lighter version of my scalloped potatoes with ham. There's less sauce, and it's made with whole milk instead of half and half. Not quite as decadent, but still quite good and satisfying for a dinner.
Scalloped Potatoes and Ham
Serves 6
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp flour
1/4 tsp kosher ...
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Saturday, January 3rd, 2015
These are a delicious dumpling in the same line as baked pork flower dumplings, baked Asian turkey buns, and hom bao.
Baked Pork Dumplings
Makes 36 dumplings
1 package gyoza wrappers
1/4 cup canola oil, divided
1 lb small button mushrooms, quartered
1 large head savoy cabbage (about 1 lb)
1 lb ground pork
1 tbsp fresh grated ...
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Wednesday, October 30th, 2013
This is another recipe of my mom's, inspired by several similar ones out there on the web. We had this with some baked yam fries and steamed veggies. Very tasty!
Pork Chops with Spiked Chunky Applesauce
For the apples:
1 tbsp butter
2 small granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and each cut ...
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Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
I got to make the baked pork flower dumplings that I intended to make last week with my spiffy new oven. I reduced the scallion to just one and upped the garlic to 4 cloves, but otherwise followed the original recipe pretty closely. I did measure the liquid ...
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