Cooking
A little different than the usual mayo-yellow mustard coated potato salad.
Fingerling potatoes (we found this lovely trio of Yukons, reds & purple) are sliced & boiled just till tender, then tossed with a dressing of butter-cooked pancetta with shallots, a nice grainy mustard & sherry vinegar, & finally topped with chives.
Despite the amount of pork fat in this dish, the lack of mayonnaise makes this rather light compared to conventional potato salads. Oh, and quite tasty. (says Matt)
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Nice salad. Romaine, carrot & green onions, topped with (in our case) fried strips of wonton, drizzled with a dressing of peanut butter, brown sugar, sriracha, ginger, rice wine vinegar & sesame oil, over which cooked chicken is tossed. Fresh, crunchy...and...
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Whenever my mother-in-law has to go out of town for work, we invite my father-in-law over for dinner on Tuesday, the usual 'family' dinner night. I didn't want to spend the entire day in the kitchen, and so picked a few simple, almost comfort-food...
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Cooking
Warm Potato Salad with Pancetta & Brown Butter Dressing
A little different than the usual mayo-yellow mustard coated potato salad.
Fingerling potatoes (we found this lovely trio of Yukons, reds & purple) are sliced & boiled just till tender, then tossed with a dressing of butter-cooked pancetta with shallots, a nice grainy mustard & sherry vinegar, & finally topped with chives.
Despite the amount of pork fat in this dish, the lack of mayonnaise makes this rather light compared to conventional potato salads. Oh, and quite tasty. (says Matt)
- Chinese Chicken Salad
Nice salad. Romaine, carrot & green onions, topped with (in our case) fried strips of wonton, drizzled with a dressing of peanut butter, brown sugar, sriracha, ginger, rice wine vinegar & sesame oil, over which cooked chicken is tossed. Fresh, crunchy...and...
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Whenever my mother-in-law has to go out of town for work, we invite my father-in-law over for dinner on Tuesday, the usual 'family' dinner night. I didn't want to spend the entire day in the kitchen, and so picked a few simple, almost comfort-food...
- Back To Food
Ginger-Grapefruit Spinach Salad With the various cooking magazines coming into my house, and the constant influx of cookbooks, I sometimes forget about my first true love; Vegetarian Times. VT was my very first 'food' mag; my eye doctor gave...
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Beautiful summer day. It was Friday and I was just sitting around with my friends with nothing to do. So we decided we will throw a party Saturday night. They went to buy something to drink and I was going to buy some food. I decided I was going to make...