Meat

Roast Split Chicken with Mustard Sauce

May 10, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

I had done a variation of this mustard-coated butterflied chicken a while back, not following Pepin’s recipe exactly but using another blogger’s version of it as inspiration, then butterflying the chicken and roasting it according to Pam Anderson’s suggestions. Having watched Pepin butterfly the chicken on the video made things much easier!  You can watch [...]

Lemon, Miso and Honey Marinated Chicken Thighs

May 1, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

Atypically, I actually followed the recipe for these lemon, miso and honey marinated chicken thighs more closely this time. (See my earlier write-up here.) The two major differences was that I actually used boneless skinless chicken thighs and I had time to marinate the chicken for about 4 hours. I also doubled the marinade and [...]

Burgers with Cilantro Pesto and Sweet Jalapeno Sauce

April 24, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

Our local farmers’ market has a stall from Bolani’s and they are very generous with the samples. And it works!  Oh my, the cilantro pesto had me from the first bite and the jalapeno sauce was the same.  Once I brought it home, the possibilities have been intriguing. Let’s take your basic barbecued hamburger. Top [...]

Lemon and Miso Marinated Chicken Thighs

April 20, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

I rarely cook recipes from the newspaper. Perhaps because I don’t get a newspaper so just read now and then online for the top news bits. But somehow this article on “Breakaway Cooking”, using unfamiliar ingredients in familiar ways might be one definition, caught my attention.  I’ve been having fun exploring our local 99 Ranch [...]

Ground Beef Wellington from Jamie Oliver

April 19, 2010 by Ellen · 5 Comments 

Looking for a Sunday dinner the other afternoon and saw this and remembered I had some puff pastry in the freezer. Ground beef wellington. The pictures were enticing and hit sounded like good Sunday comfort food. I would allow 1 1/2 to 2 hours for this, as it needs to bake an hour. I was [...]

Butterflied Roast Chicken: New to Me

April 12, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

I went to our farmer’s market yesterday with a friend and vowed, again, to make this a Saturday habit. I came home with kale, carrots, strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes (a disappointment, but still better than grocery store ones), fingerling potatoes, and some fantastic mustard! The lady who sold the mustard said to rub it on a [...]

Spaghetti with Meat Sauce by Katie Lee Joel

March 29, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I hesitated to try this but yet was intrigued somehow. I cut the recipe mostly in half as I was just looking to feed two  of us plus provide a lunch or two. My daughter packs a lunch for school every day and LOVES leftover spaghetti and sauce. Recently a neighbor had shown her his [...]

How to Roast a Chicken

March 21, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I swung by Trader Joe’s today and they had free range chickens for a much more reasonable price than the local Safeway. I changed my dinner plans and went for a simple roast chicken dinner. Good idea since my college daughter decided to come home for dinner! So there was plenty and we’ll have one [...]

Korean Beef Bulgogi

March 11, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

So, I’m not Korean and have never even eaten this in a Korean restaurant. But I kept seeing references to it in various Bento and other cooking blogs I read, so I decided to try it. I had some thin sliced top round in the freezer and pulled that for tonight and marinated it for [...]

Chicken Biryani with Patak Curry Paste

March 10, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

At our local Indian grocery store, I found the Pataks Biryani Paste 10oz that Jamie Oliver mentions in his Jamie’s Food Revolution: Rediscover How to Cook Simple, Delicious, Affordable Meals. One jar makes 3 batches of curry with 1-2 pounds of meat in each batch, so plenty to feed 4-6 folks. Last night I made [...]

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