I’ve been cooking a lot of heavy dishes the past few days. ‘Tis the season for all those rich recipes to come out and Osso Buco served over plain-boiled polenta sounds perfect for another cold, snowy day in Colorado…. Yesterday morning, Spouse and I went up to Denver and drove through the beautiful and cold [...]
Sop Buntut is one of those favorite Indonesian dishes of mine, which I have never tried to cook before. Now that I have this blog, I thought it would be a good idea to to try cooking Indonesian dishes. I lived for a very short time in Jakarta years ago and experienced real culture shock [...]
This was the Steak Dinner we had last night, with a few of the ingredients I used to prepare the meal. I have to admit, the steak was not perfectly medium the way I planned it….more medium-well, which is not all that perfect for a piece of good steak. I used a little under a [...]
Okay, this dish really doesn’t have a name…Bessie, my mom, just called it “Mrs. Johnson” and the name stuck. Mrs. Johnson is actually the former American first lady, Lady Bird Johnson. My mom found this recipe in some American magazine in the 60′s and turned it into her own. It has very few ingredients, is [...]
Here’s a sorry attempt at plating a dish of beef caldereta. Do you think I overdid it? I really wasn’t going to post about this but decided I would at the last minute because of the attractively-colored vegetables. This caldereta is missing a few key ingredients (which I’ll include in the recipe anyway) which [...]
This is another beef dish that’s pretty common in the Philippines. We call it Bistek, a play on the Western ”beef steak”. The Philippine version uses thin sirloin cuts of beef if your monthly budget permits but you can use the cheaper cuts, pounded to make it more tender. The marinating will tenderize the meat considerably. [...]
I’ve tried several recipes of meatloaf but was always taken by the one Cracker Barrel serves (on Tuesdays if I’m not mistaken). I did a search on the internet some years back and found a recipe based on that. My recipe has evolved from that however…I made a few changes that suited our tastes more. [...]
This recipe is from the late Juliia Child. It’s one of the classic French dishes she featured on her first cooking show on PBS, The French Chef. If I’m not mistaken, this was the first she actually featured on that show produced by Russell Morash, the same producer who today, gives PBS audiences “This Old [...]
Forgive this photo of my half-eaten dinner, I originally had no intention of making this dinner a blog entry. I was just happily chomping away when it hit me – this steak was perfectly cooked! Why is it perfect? Look closely, there’s only a little run-off from the meat itself. The juices stayed in the meat because it had [...]
Summer IS almost gone, isn’t it? Gosh, time has gone by sooo fast… It was cool enough for a beef stew yesterday and I even put on some socks later in the evening because it was getting too cold for my toes….errr, I mean my taste. Yes, I do believe autumn is not so far away. A stew always [...]
Remember this dish? If you’re Filipino and grew up in the Philippines, you would. If not, check out a cheap carinderia or turo-turo in any street corner in Metro Manila and chances are you’ll find it. It’s cheap, it can feed a crowd depending on three variables: how much rice you servewith it; [...]
This used to be a weekly staple when Spouse and I were newly married almost 5 years ago. I got the recipe from Jeff Smith aka the Frugal Gourmet. As usual, I made some changes likecooking it stovetop and adding brussels sprouts The sprouts just seem to go perfectly with the roast. Lately, I’ve [...]
