Once the snows and cold leave, and Spring warms towards May, I start thinking about fresh tacos. Tacos with pollo asado, thin slices of chicken marinated for hours and grilled, are a regular feature, along with barbacoa, which is pulled beef simmered for hours, and even ground beef sauteed with tomato paste and spices. Summer […]
If you live in the Midwest, nothing is more ubiquitous than ranch dressing. Folks in Ohio where I live put it on anything. I won’t bore you with the history of ranch dressing, or talk about the first time I made it from a Hidden Valley packet in 1977. I want to tell you why […]
Delicious savory green beans are the perfect side dish
Delicious meat sauce for pasta and more!
Not everything is about Sichuan food; sometimes you just gotta make dinner. One thing I really enjoy as a cook is finding ways to use things that are in my refrigerator. Case in point: tonight I had some ground beef that needed to get used, some ground pork, and a bag of sauerkraut left over […]
Make this classic Sichuan spicy fish at home!
This dim sum treat has pork, shrimp, and Sichuan style flavors.
You don’t want to hear my life story, but sometime last winter I had a cold, my wife had a cold, just about everybody had a cold. I had a couple of pounds of Amish-raised chicken and decided that a chicken soup would be the perfect tonic for our sniffling. My next thought was, “why […]