Category Archives: Recipes

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Recipe: Seafood Cocktail Sauce

Why pay for an expensive bottle of seafood cocktail sauce that takes up room in your refrigerator, when you can make your own as needed with ingredients you already have on hand? Inspired by this recipe from Kitchn. Makes ¾ … Continue reading

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Recipe: Chinese Takeout Sweet and Sour Pork, Hacked

Order sweet and sour pork at my local Chinese takeout place, and you’ll get a product that looks like the picture at the bottom of this post: individual pieces of pork battered and fried, with a tub of fluorescent sweet … Continue reading

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Recipe: Best Way Ethiopian Tibs

There are a LOT of recipes for Ethiopian Tibs (stir fried beef or lamb) on the web, and no two seem to be alike. The essence of the dish is chunks of tender meat in a savory sauce with onion, … Continue reading

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Recipe: Easy Bhindi Masala

When okra is in season, make Bhindi Masala! This recipe is from Two Sleevers and they’ve really cracked the code; I have added only minor tweaks. The spice combination is the perfect balance you’re looking for in a masala and … Continue reading

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Recipe: Amish-Style Pickled Tripe in Aspic

Amish-Style Pickled Tripe in Aspic is so-called because we first tasted it at the Green Dragon Market in Ephrata, PA, but it could also be called Pennsylvania Dutch or even German, as all those cuisines share a soft spot for … Continue reading

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Recipe: Fourth of July Hamburgers

You could make these any day, of course, but a midsummer cookout seems like the perfect occasion for juicy Fourth of July hamburgers. Texas-Style Potato Salad and Better-Than-KFC Cole Slaw are ideal accompaniments. Makes 4 burgers. Ingredients: 1 lb good … Continue reading

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Recipe: Instant Pot Pork Adobo

Adobo is often referred to as the Filipino national dish, an irresistible medley of rich tangy sauce and meltingly tender meat. The Instant Pot is ideal for making Pork Adobo because you can sauté the ingredients, cook the meat in … Continue reading

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Recipe: Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage

Hand-Torn Sichuan Cabbage is our approximation of a favorite dish at Albany’s Northeast Chinese II. It has an irresistible sweet/sour/hot flavor with the additional mala of Sichuan peppercorns. Theirs includes slices of steamed pork belly, which you can certainly add … Continue reading

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Recipe: Persian Cucumber Salad

Persian Cucumber Salad has a flavor profile similar to tabbouleh, but with cucumbers providing bulk instead of bulgur wheat. That makes it a good choice for paleos, ketos and other carb-avoiders. Plus it’s a nice change of pace in any … Continue reading

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Recipe: Tex-Mex Tomato Juice Rice

¡Que rojo! The red color in the rice in your #1 combo comes from tomatoes. I normally dump in a can of Ro-Tel tomatoes with chile but this time I had some leftover tomato juice from gazpacho. Result: Tex-Mex Tomato … Continue reading

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