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Jun
30
OK, well, it isn’t really mole sauce, but it looks like it, and it tastes sort of like it, so there you go. If you’re ever on an isolated Caribbean island, with fairly limited grocery options, here’s one way to come up with a spicy barbecue sauce that doesn’t taste like it came from a [...]
Jun
25
Lemon Potato Salad
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A taste for potato salad can be a very personal preference. Often, the way one’s mother made it guides the palate to the perfect potato salad ingredients, the variables being sweet pickles, sour pickles, brand of mayonnaise, spices, and so on. Here’s a potato salad that’s a bit simpler, and may appeal to a broader [...]
Jun
20
Marinated Flank Steak
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OK, here’s another chapter in the saga entitled “Searching for the Perfect Flank Steak Marinade.” Flank is a pretty tough cut, so it really needs something to help break down the texture of the meat. Pear is traditionally used in Korean style barbecue, to tenderize the grilled short ribs they call kalbi. In this case, [...]
Jun
16
Well, my mother will probably roll her eyes at this recipe; Velveeta was not exactly a welcome visitor in our house when I was growing up. As I have grown older, however, I have learned to appreciate the value of the processed cheese brick in the foil wrapper, for one recipe, anyway. I took the [...]
Jun
12
It’s been unseasonably hot around here recently, and the other night, I had a craving for some tacos. But hot taco meat sounded just a bit sweaty, and I sure didn’t want to stand over a hot stove, frying tortillas for crispy tacos. So I came up with this fun alternative. Refreshing, satisfying, and not [...]
Jun
8
Fennel Slaw
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Some people think I’m a little obsessed with fennel, and maybe I am. But I just can’t help it. It’s such a versatile little vegetable, and has such interesting flavors, that I love messing around with it in the kitchen. Now, those of you who aren’t that wild about fennel because you think it tastes [...]
Jun
4
Lobster Penne in Fried Green Tomato Sauce
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Although I’m not sure why you’d want to, I understand there is more than one way to skin a cat. There also happens to be more than one way to make a tomato sauce for pasta, and lucky for me, there are probably even more reasons to want to. So here’s one way to do [...]