Food Hackery

Sometimes the best summertime meal is something super simple using fresh ingredients from your garden or Farmer’s Market. Tonight that was exactly what I decided to make. I have copious amounts of spearmint in my garden as well as a fairly good amount of basil. I got super ripe and fresh tomatoes from the Farmer’s […]

One of the very first things I started to miss during quarantine were my weekly visits to the Indian buffet for lunch. Once a week I’d meet my spouse at an awesome local Indian restaurant and we’d sample the various dishes on the buffet. One of my favorite things to get is palak/sagg paneer. As […]

This weekend I had a pile of zucchini which I needed to use before they spoiled. Often I’d use these to make zucchini bread, but this weekend I wasn’t feeling like making something sweet. I wanted to make something savory instead. Ideally something to serve as an appetizer. When I go to Italian restaurant one […]

Over the quarantine period my family has really gotten into making Indian food. It was a weekly lunch tradition for us to go out to get it at a local buffet. But as the positivity rate in our area rose we increasingly didn’t feel comfortable with any take out food. I’d tried to make indian […]

One of my favorite things to order in the summer is Vietnamese Vermicelli Bowls. Unfortunately we haven’t ordered take out food at out house since March. So I decided to see if I could replicate this dish myself. The first step was to create a marinade for the meat. I found a few recipes to […]

Early during the coronageddon, I bought a bunch of different alternative flours because regular white flour wasn’t available. This include a health bunch of semolina flour which could be used for pasta or bread products. This weekend I decided it would be a good time to do some baking with the semolina flour. I’ve had […]

It seems like in the summertime I’ve always got some bits of fruit which is getting ready to go bad sitting on my counter waiting to be eaten or used. Sometime it is peaches, other times apricots, this week it was plums. I’m a big fan of homemade jam, jellies, marmalade and preserves. I’ve posted […]

Early during quarantine I decided that I really wanted to be able to fry particular thing like egg rolls, fish and dumplings. To make this possible I bought a pot with a basket for frying. As fourth of July neared I thought that it might be fun to make some hush puppies in the fryer. […]

One of my favorite things about living in Texas is the fact that we get fresh peaches in the summertime. While we sometimes go to pick them ourselves, most of the time I get them from the farmer’s market. My favorite trick it to go at the end of the market and ask the peach […]

One of the things I got for my birthday back in January was the America’s Test Kitchen Bread Illustrated cookbook. I really needed a good cookbook for bread because I haven’t been having a lot of success making bread. The cookbook contains lots of different kinds bread recipes – from simple to very complex. It […]