Misc

Roast Sticky Chicken for Chicken Tacos

June 28, 2010 by Ellen · 1 Comment 

Rub on a fantastic spice mix, then slow roast your chicken to perfection.  The original recipe for this “Sticky Chicken” calls for cooking it 5 hours at 225. I upped the temperature to 300 because I was a bit “short” on time and cooked it about 3.5 hours.   You can go follow the link for [...]

Grind Your Own Meat: My First Home-Ground Beef for Hamburgers

June 28, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Thanks to KitchenAid FGA Food Grinder Attachment for Stand Mixers, which I’ve rarely, if ever, used before, I ground up a two-pound blade steak last night for hamburgers. (Froze 1 pound for later use.) You have to cut the meat up into 1″ cubes or long thinner strips. This is probably a bit easier to [...]

Pleasanton Area: Tyler Florence at Macy’s June 17

June 9, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Any Tyler Florence fans? I don’t watch much food tv so don’t know his stuff but have heard the name. He’ll be at Macy’s doing a free cooking demonstration on June 17 at 6pm.  You have to sign up, which you can do here.  Let me know if you decide to go!

Rice Salad

June 1, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

A friend invited me over for lunch the other day and served a delicious rice salad made with a mix of wild and long grain rice, cooked chicken, feta cheese, red onions and a lemon and olive oil dressing. It was really good! I had some friends over for dinner on Saturday and wanted to [...]

Easy Appetizers

June 1, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I entertained twice this weekend and while I cooked a fair bit, I was a bit too busy to take pictures of everything! Both nights I wanted some easy appetizers and used a few items from Jacques Pepin More Fast Food My Way, including the idea of this simple appetizer with sliced radishes (from my [...]

Pork Scallopini with Mushroom Sauce from Jacques Pepin

May 18, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

Another good recipe from Fast Food My Way by Jacques Pepin. You can browse through a lot of great video clips here and print off the recipes for many of the dishes. I’ve been watching this series through my Netflix subscription, not available on demand alas. But well worth watching–and I’m not a big cooking [...]

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. 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 used 8 chicken thighs. They [...]

Springtime: How to Cook and Eat Artichokes

March 22, 2010 by Ellen · Leave a Comment 

I am almost a native Californian, having moved here just before my 5th birthday.  (Plus my grandmother was born here and lived through the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco. We just left for one generation!) I grew up eating and loving artichokes. We grew them when I was a kid and I have periodically grown [...]

Spring Salad: Sugar Snap Peas and Radishes

March 21, 2010 by Ellen · 2 Comments 

This was a fantastic spring salad recipe, from The Comfort Table, which a friend had loaned me. There are some fantastic sounding recipes in here and if this one is typical, I think I may have to go buy my own copy!  (Thanks Elizabeth for the loan!) 3/4 pound sugar snap peas 1 bunch radishes, [...]

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