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Things I have cooked today:

Pickled Rainbow Carrots
Pickled Red Onions
Tomato Basil Marmalade
Cippolini Onion Chutney
Olive Tapenade
Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

...and a Lemon Tart.

I think I'm Dead from Keller, as everything (except for the Lemon Tart, which was half Keller/half Chez Panisse) was from Ad Hoc At Home. I spent eight hours straight in ( Read more... )

This one's for Gwen! Anyone else have a recipe request?

This is heavily modified from the recipe in The Silver Palate, which is an awesome cookbook. The original recipe is pretty much just beef, bacon, beer, and onions. You should be able to cook the whole thing using one (or two) pans: a frying pan, for the bacon/onions, and a dutch oven, for ( Read more... )

Dinner tonight: Marinated skirt steak, mashed potatoes, and broccolini.

Skirt steak from Shopper's Corner (I have found myself to be so unused to buying my meat from a package, not from people! Shopper's Corner has a great butcher's counter and some of the best meat prices/quality in town). I marinated according to the recipe in Ad Hoc (olive ( Read more... )

Tonight's dinner: Wild Snapper en Persillade, saffron rice, and steamed broccoli ( Read more... )

So I bought a new cookbook on Saturday, and cooked from it for the first time today. I would ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK for anyone with $50 to blow on a cookbook (ah, giftcards, how I love thee). Yes, some of the recipes seem complex (dinner ended up taking about an hour and a half to make (mostly because I decided to make two dishes that ( Read more... )