Cardamom Honey Chicken
On my recent trip to New Zealand, my hosts sent me home with a wonderful cookbook from BeesOnline, a local café and honey factory right outside Auckland. The Cardamom and Honey-Glazed Chicken recipe caught our eye and we made it a few days ago. I’ve never thought to use cardamom as a spice [...]
Arugula on its own is so peppery it can almost be too much. However, partnered with either walnuts, goat cheese, or in this case both, mellows the tanginess of the arugula. A perfect, light, luncheon salad.
Ingredients
Olive oil
1 large shallot, peeled and sliced
1 1/2 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast, cut into 1 inch cubes
Salt
1 tart green [...]
Beef Bourguignon is a classic French stew of cubed beef, slow cooked in red wine and broth, and served with sautéed mushrooms and pearl onions. This is a family favorite recipe, adapted from Julia Child’s approach to making Beef Bourguignon.
Beef Bourguignon Recipe
Ingredients
6 oz bacon
2 to 3 Tbsp olive oil
4 lbs trimmed beef chuck, cut [...]
Many recipes call for beef stock (e.g. French onion soup), but good beef stock is hard to come by, with beef prices these days, expensive to make.
Beef oxtails make a wonderful stock and sometimes you can get them (try Costco) at a reasonable price. If you’ve never cooked oxtails before, they do indeed come from [...]
This beef stew recipe is from the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. It cooks up in about half an hour and is surprisingly rich in flavor given its short cooking time.
Ingredients
1 1/4 pounds boneless beef top sirloin steak, cut 3/4-inch cubes
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1 1/2 teaspoons olive oil
2 medium carrots, cut into [...]
According to the Wikipedia, Beef Stroganoff was invented by a chef working for a Russian general, Count Pavel Stroganov, in the 1890s. It became popular in the U.S. in the 1950s from servicemen returning from Europe and China after WWII. Beef Stroganoff is basically tender strips of beef and mushrooms cooked in a sour cream [...]
I was looking for a new idea for chicken when Ally recommended this recipe that she developed based on a recipe in Katie’s blog. I decided to take things that I liked from both recipes and ended up with one of the best chicken dishes I’ve made in a while. I’ll definitely make this one [...]
Nachos are a good example. If you don’t pile them so high with beans and salsa and vegetables and olives and cheese and sour cream and guacamole that you need to eat them with a fork, you just aren’t trying.
It was that blueprint for nachos that served as the inspiration for these over-the-top stuffed potato [...]
