Food
Smoked Chicken Thighs
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
Smoked Picnic Cut Pork Shoulder
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
A bird’s last flight
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
DSS – Devil’s Silk Sauce
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
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
LiCookies – Fastest Cookies with Yeast
Sometime things just work out the way they should. It was snowing the whole day (it’s early afternoon, should stop soon) and I’m home. I made myself a veggie/beef/biltong kung pao which came out really good (maybe I’ll recreate and document sometime), and then made myself coffee for dessert – but as it was brewing, … Read more
Persio-Caribbean Chicken
Fancy name I just made up. This chicken dish is using Persian lemons and coconut milk, mainly because I just got the lemons and had coconut milk leftover in the fridge. But it came out good… 1 1/2 cups water 2 Persian lemons 2 bay leaves 4 cloves garlic 1 1/2 tsp salt 1 tspn … Read more
Ghetto Sous Vide
So this is the best way I found to cook cheap meat. Once it’s cooked, you can make whatever with it. More on that in future recipes. So here’s what you need: Cheap meat. get something with fat in it. Any beef cut will do. Onion Garlic Salt Black pepper Mason jars Quantities are whatever … Read more
Chicken Scarpariello the short version
Chicken Scarpariello is usually done with sausage and a bunch of stuff, but there’s a version that I much prefer, and is similar to what is served in Carmine’s restaurant in NYC. My version is made with chicken thighs, and is relatively simple – marinate for at least an hour in lemon juice (at least … Read more