Bread! Apples! Very small rocks! Lead — lead!
This recipe is more a method for cooking a roast duck than anything else, but it worked beautifully.
Category Archives: Meat
A Miscellany of Pasta
Linguine carbonara, and Vietnamese beef and broccoli with an attempted noodle pancake.
Loads and Loads of Yams (and some Caesar Salad)
Spice-rubbed pork tenderloin with a tangy pomegranate reduction, vanilla sweet potato puree, and Caesar salad with homemade dressing.
Making the Most of Meatballs
Leftover Greek lamb meatballs cross over to the Italian realm with spaghetti, and a fabulous half-braised/half-fried potato recipe.
Mom’s Chili
My mom's recipe for chili may not blow your head off with heat, but it has a good balance of flavors.
A Pair of Pastas
A pantry-scraping pasta recipe using sausage, spinach and tomato; plus, the easiest pasta dish ever, no recipe required.
Gigot d’Agneau à la Cuillére
Seven hours seems like a long time to cook anything, but this braised leg of lamb comes out fantastically spoon-tender. Any leftover lamb and braising liquid can be transformed into risotto.
Scottadito
Lamb chops with sauteed baby artichokes, and Greek lamb meatballs with a green bean ragout.
Potstuck
My homemade potstickers may not be pretty, but they tasted better than anything we've gotten from a Chinese restaurant around here.
Pork Ricotta Meatballs
Slow-cooked pork and ricotta meatballs pack a huge flavor punch.
Making Inroads
Pork tenderloins stuffed with a savory mixture of mushrooms and leeks, and served with a port reduction and tangy goat cheese mashed potatoes.
Buffalo Burgers and Baseball
My first attempt to cook with ground buffalo meat ended in moist burgers and a nail-biting Yankees-Red Sox game.
Orange Chili
We had hardly finished off the last of the white bean chicken chili I made a week or two back when we went back to the grocery store. Jeremy popped another whole chicken into the…
Hens and Chicks
Jeremy requested another roasted chicken the last time we were at the grocery store, in part (I think) because the white chicken chili I made with the leftovers of our last roast chicken was so…
Point A to Point B
It’s funny how one thing leads to another. For instance, because Jeremy stayed home from work last Wednesday, I got to have wonderful memories of making snow ice cream as a child in Colorado winters.…
A week in food
…but not so many photos. We have been eating especially well this past week, but I didn’t get pics of most of it. Last Friday night we had a (sadly unphotographed) crustless broccoli quiche. I’ve…
Dinner with Batali and Stevens
Dinner last night was a tiny boneless organic leg of lamb (less than 2 lb), roasted with onion, shallot, lemon quarters, prunes, and green olives, after Mario Batali (from Molto Italiano). I didn’t have time…
Dinner with Keller and Batali
Dinner last night was a roasted chicken cooked very simply according to Thomas Keller’s instructions here. You almost can’t call it a recipe, because it was so simple—4 lb chicken rinsed and dried thoroughly, S&P…
Some Things…
…are too good not to share. An example of this is the lamb kefthedes I made for dinner last week, which came out to be the best meatballs I’ve ever eaten, bar none. Wait… those…