Category: Recipes

I started with a recipe from Traeger Kitchen, and decided to put bacon and smoke every dish in a meal I made. Smoked Bacon-wrapped Asparagus Asparagus, spiced, wrapped in bacon, and smoked Smoker 1...

These are based on a recipe by J. Kenji-López Alt of Serious Eats and its Food Lab fame, and associated books. He developed it for a New York Times article he wrote. It is clever in that is uses a...

Irene's favorite dish, I make it on her birthday as the house rule is the birthday person gets to pick the meals. It's a neat dish, with the flambéing and the extensive mis-en-place required. Steak...

A refreshing and gingery stock with spinach, a bit of chicken, and exotic flavoring. Sop Bayam Jahe (Watercress and Ginger Soup) A refreshing soup of Watercress, Ginger, and Chicken, with sweetened...

I love Irish Coffee. To me it's important that the colder cream floats on top of the hot sweet whiskey-ed coffee. Irish Coffee I love Irish Coffee: the sweet, strong, black coffee with whiskey...

I love Bourbon Furnaces in the winter when coming home from the cold, wet outside. A Bourbon Furnace, served hot in a large brandy snifter, held in both hands, breathing in the steam coming off of...

A curry made of cat fish fillet, stewed until the fish blakes into a thick stew. Ikan Kari (Catfish Curry) A curry made of catfish fillet, stewed until the fish flakes into a thick stew. Wok...

A light cheese soufflé, based on Gordon Ramsay's recipe "Cheat’s Soufflé With Three Cheeses" but like mine classic recipes it's based on a small army of helpers in a 17th-century kitchen: I...

No-knead bread baked in a cast-iron double skillet or Dutch oven to contain the moisture and fake using a steam oven for good crust development. No-knead Bread (Boule) A recipe that requires no...

A spicy peanut sauce, much less sweet than typical South-East Asian peanut sauces, like Thai. Bumbu Kacang Pedas (Chili Hot Peanut Sauce) A spicy peanut sauce, much less sweet than typical...