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Category Archives: Recipes
Recipe: Carnitas
The original pulled pork, without the attitude. Amazingly easy because all you need is piggy, water, salt and time. Number of servings determined by the size of the roast; allow 1/2 pound per person measured by uncooked weight. Ingredients: 1 … Continue reading
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Tagged Carnitas, Mexican, Pulled Pork, Recipe, Tex-Mex
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Recipe: Creamy Andaluz Gazpacho
If you like chunks of fresh veggies in your soup, this is the gazpacho for you. The secret is a quick pickling which helps them stay crisp. Adapted (and dramatically simplified) from a Cooks Illustrated recipe, this is a good … Continue reading
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Tagged Andalucian, Andaluz, gaspacho, gazpacho, Recipe, Spain, Spanish, tomato, tomato soup
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Recipe: Simple Spanish Gazpacho
Use this Simple Spanish Gazpacho recipe when your tomatoes are so good, you don’t want any other flavors getting in the way. Adapted from the excellent Simple Spanish Food website. It’s meant to be drunk from a glass or cup. … Continue reading
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Tagged gaspacho, gazpacho, Recipe, Spain, Spanish, tomato, tomato soup
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Recipe: Easy Kosher Pickles
These are darn close to Guss’s Kosher pickles in my opinion. All you need is cucumbers, water, salt, garlic and patience. Ingredients: A pound or more of nice pickling cucumbers Water Kosher salt or another non-iodized salt A handful of garlic … Continue reading
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Tagged cucumbers, Guss', kosher pickles, pickle juice, pickles
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Recipe: Wilted Kale Salad
There are lots of recipes for wilted (or “massaged”) kale salads around, but this one nails the flavor balance*. It’s from Jennifer Adler, a nutritionist in Seattle. Thanks to Daniel B for the link that led me to it. Ingredients: … Continue reading
Recipe: Korean Bean Sprout Salad
This Korean bean sprout salad is from the somewhat grandiosely titled “The Complete Book of Oriental Cooking”, a Penguin paperback by Myra Waldo published in 1960. Conventional spices are used in unusual proportions to create an exotic taste without sesame … Continue reading
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Special Recipe: Kettle Bread
Welcome to sourdough baking Tartine style. Tartine is a bakery in San Francisco that makes one batch of bread per day, at 5 pm, and sells out immediately. With your starter and these instructions you will create two magnificent loaves … Continue reading
Recipe: Chickpea Salad with Reverse Vinaigrette
A little oil and a lot of vinegar brings stodgy garbanzos to life in this chickpea salad. Adapted from Annie Somerville’s Fields of Greens, by far the best of the three Greens cookbooks. 4 servings. Ingredients: 15-oz can garbanzo beans, … Continue reading