Black Garlic Salt & Pepper Ribs with Spicy Scallion Salad
How About Some Really Good Ribs for Dinner This Week? I keep slabs of St. Louis style spare ribs in my freezer most of the time. Why? Well, they’re always delicious, versatile, and easy to make. You can go in so many directions with them, flavor-wise. This time I kept it really simple – black […]
Pancetta and Tomato Achaar Beans
Here is One Flavor-Packed Bowl of Stewed Beans! Once again, I was in the mood for beans. As much as I love a bowl of beans that have been simply cooked in their own delicious broth, I wanted something a little more stew-like this time around because I wanted to scoop these with some good […]
Fried Salmon with Peanut Yogurt Sauce
A Different Spin on Salmon. Wow, Is It Good! I had a taste for salmon. But I didn’t have a taste for baked, grilled, or pan sautéed salmon. I couldn’t put my finger on exactly what I wanted. Then it struck me that I’d recently made chicken karaage, a Japanese fried chicken recipe, and thought […]
Lamb Meatballs in Beet and Pomegranate Sauce
There are Meatballs, and Then There are These Meatballs. I mentioned in my tahdig recipe post, that when I make tahdig I like to give it my full attention and have whatever else I’m serving either warming up in the oven or being grilled by someone else. In this case, I made this lamb meatball […]
Rice Salad with Roasted Lemons
I Don’t Think I Could Love This More. I love a good rice salad. And by good, I mean one that’s loaded with flavor and full of interesting ingredients. For this one I sliced up a lemon, drizzled it with a small amount of olive oil and roasted it in a hot oven. I […]
Pork Noodle Bowl with Umami Sauce
Now Here is a Bowl of Noodles I Fully Support. Kenji Lopez is a favorite of mine and I came upon a recipe for his take on XO sauce in his new cookbook The Wok *. He calls it Umami Sauce because it doesn’t have the requisite dried scallops and shrimps, called for in typical […]
Pork Larb
So Much Flavor and Such Fun to Eat. I don’t know about you, but I love wrapping intensely flavored meats in lettuce leaves. The crunch and freshness of the lettuce is such a perfect balance with the salty and chili flavored meat. In this case I made Pork Larb, which I understand to be the […]