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I’m a sucker for apricots. Also for sesame but that’s a different story. Anyway, I really like apricots since I was a kid, and I loved an apricot cake my mom used to make. So… I just made one. Came out great. Here’s the recipe. 150g very soft butter 1/2 cup milk 4 eggs 1 … Read more
Yazdi pita or bread apparently originated from Yazd, a city in Persia, now Iran, that to my understanding developed really good bread over a few thousand years. I saw a bakery making it in a hundred-year-old stone oven and immediately made it in a six months old toaster oven. I kind of winged it, but … Read more
Ingredients: 10 bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs 3 tbsp tomato paste 1 tbsp soy sauce 1 tsp salt 1 tsp black pepper 1 tsp turmeric 1 tbsp onion powder 1 tsp garlic powder 1/2 tsp cumin 1/2 tsp to 1 tsp cayenne pepper (depending on how spicy you like it) 1 tbsp paprika 1 … Read more
Ingredients: 1 picnic cut pork shoulder 1 tbsp salt 1 tbsp black pepper 1/2 tbsp white pepper 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper 1 tbsp paprika 1 tsp garlic powder 1 tbsp onion powder 1/2 tsp allspice 1/4 tsp Chinese five spice 1 tbsp ground mustard 5 TBLS maple syrup 1 tbsp molasses Directions: … Read more
This year I decide to be one with Tetris and think flat.Introducing the spatchcock turkey. I heard about it last week and decided to go for it. You cut out the bird’s backbone and flatten it out. You can’t stuff it obviously, but it cooks faster and even.But I obviously didn’t just do it. I … Read more
Cheeky? I’m sure that if I’ll do a DNA test they’ll find that I’m as British as Elizabeth Warren AKA Pocahontas is Native American, so you can call me Sir Cookalot, and I’ll use British slang. I’m a sucker for beef on sale. I went to Walmart for something and saw beef cheek on sale, … Read more
Simple and tasty, I fused east and far east in the west. Made myself a kind of frittata, and it really needed some sort of a condiment. So this is what I whipped together (and named..): DSS – Devil’s Silk Sauce Ingredients: 3 tbsp tahini paste 1tsp Gochujang (Korean hot pepper paste) 2 tsp lemon … Read more
Biltong is like beef jerky only you buy it with Krugerrands and it tastes better. Ask my fried Dori (not Nemo’s friend, that’s Dory). It’s a South African dried meat. It’s much softer (if done right) than beef jerky and more of a pure meat flavor. I sometimes use it as bacon, though it is … Read more
In high school, maybe sophomore year, I had a girlfriend called Esther for a couple of months. She lived in Shchoonat Hatikva which literally means Hope Neighborhood and hope was really needed there. Anyway… I used to ride my bicycle to her house, and one of the times when I arrived her mother was pealing … Read more
