Meat Recipes
Steamed Pork Buns
Happy New Year, Everybody! No I’m NOT reading that calendar wrong. I’m talking about Chinese New Year! Yeah, you read that right. And I made me some dim sum. I shortcutted my way through the dough and the Chinese barbecued pork filling, leaving me plenty of time to roll these babies around my kitchen on…
Read MoreHomemade Pizza … At Home!
I never made completely homemade pizza before shooting this episode. I also had never had such delicious, perfect pizza anywhere in tha werld before shooting this episode. Thanks to Brandon of Via 313 pizza, I now can make my own wicked-good pizza at home ANY TIME I WANT TO (provided I have a premonition to make the…
Read MoreHow to Roast a Chicken
How to Roast a Chicken … Or better yet, WHY to roast a chicken Oh, but there’s a litany of reasons, my dear — all based upon the presumption that you, my sweet, are not opposed to eating chicken — nay, that you even love eating chicken.
Read MoreChicken and Dumplings
The sky is dreary as can be and I’ve been feeling extraordinarily lazy today, still recuperating from hosting my first complete Thanksgiving dinner, which means I also have a fridgerator full of Thanksgiving leftovers at my fingertips. Given those facts, what could be better than soup with dumplings and all-day movies? Nothing. Without further ado…
Read MoreHow to Roast a Turkey
Maybe the best gift you can give this year is to learn how to roast a turkey for your loved ones. Just an idea. It’s now November — the month of Thanksgiving, all! Thanksgiving, despite its morally questionable beginnings, is my second-favorite holiday (after Halloween of course). I love giving thanks and being grateful for…
Read MoreQuick Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
The first time I went to New Orleans, I was 18. It was July. I was moving to Boston with my boyfriend and we were taking the long way. We were supposed to camp, but as soon as we pulled into town, we stopped for gas and I tell you the lights over the gas…
Read MoreWiener Schnitzel! (Haha, I said “Wiener”.)
When I lived in Melbourne in 2002, I worked at a sandwich shop run by a Greek couple who were very warm and friendly and paid everyone under the table and that worked out just fine for me. I forget their names now, except that the lady’s name was spelled like a man’s name in…
Read MoreThe Best Chicken Fried Steak In The Galaxy
I was fortunate to grow up in the middle of nowhere, although I didn’t see it as a fortune at the time. Looking back of course, having no one to play with but my brother and nothing to do but run around The Hill as we called it was probably the coolest way to spend…
Read MoreSonoran Hot Dogs!
Hot Dogs: The Alpha and The Omega. The first time I made these was for my friend Jane. We had lunch together in my mom’s kitchen. It was lovely and Jane was happy and I was happy and we spoke of wondrous things. The second time I made these I was on the news. Last…
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