Month: January 2020

I consider myself to be a fairly good cook and baker but I have a couple of Achilles heels. One is pie crust. I can only make “short crust” aka crust that is made with butter not crisco or lard. Even doing this requires a tremendous effort on my part to get it right. My […]

One of the most common things that my mom would make growing up were Greek meatballs. Keftedes, as they are known, are made from a mixture of ground beef and/or lamb, onion and/or garlic, oregano, bread crumbs, and eggs. My mom made them of lean ground beef. She would not include garlic in her mixture […]

This past weekend I made a bunch of different appetizers/snacks for my birthday dinner. One of the recipes I decided to make was deviled eggs. The key to making nice deviled eggs is making sure you don’t overcook the hard boiled eggs. To ensure this bring the slightly salted water to a boil then add […]

One of my other recipe experiments for this past weekend was sweet potato croquettes. I had cooked a bunch of sweet potato earlier in the week and had some leftovers that I needed to use up. I’m not a big fan of pureed sweet potato so I wanted to try to make a recipe that […]

This past weekend was my birthday and I decided what I wanted most was to spend the day trying new recipes out. So I made a variety of appetizers recipes and celebrated by having family for a dinner with my experiments. The first recipe I decided to try was one for spinach and feta turnovers. […]

I really love chocolate mousse but it can be kind of tricky to make because of the fact it involves custard making. If one curdles the eggs during the cooking process then the texture of the final product is completely ruined. With a lot of custards you can just sieve them. However chocolate mousse doesn’t […]

I’m a huge fan of risotto and really enjoy trying to make different versions of it. This weekend I decided to make a completely vegetarian version of it. Typically I make risotto using chicken stock because I have it on hand. However, this time I had homemade vegetable stock in my refrigerator. I had made […]

This year for Christmas my brother and sister in-law got me an Anova Sous Vide cooker. I’d been asking for one because sous vide is a cooking methodology which really interested me but I hadn’t tried yet. For those of you not familiar with the concept of “sous vide”, it is a technique that involves […]

One of my favorite things about living in Houston is the fact that I can grow vegetables 8 months of the year. In the wintertime, there are really only two months of the year where I can’t grow things easily. To compensate for this my spouse has given me a variety of gifts which are […]

One of my favorite ethnic foods is Korean. I’m especially a big fan of the various side dishes and grilled meats at Korean barbecue. We have a several restaurants that serve this in our area. However, my son isn’t a big fan of this kind of food. So I thought that it would be good […]