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Fettucini with Fresh Vegetables Pasta is not something many people make fresh for themselves. A terrible shame as far as I’m concerned. Home made pasta will always taste better than any supermarket brand pasta and probably cost less too. A pasta machine can be purchased for as little as $25. Of course pasta takes about [...]

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Umami is known as the fifth taste and is often described as ‘savoriness’ or ‘meaty’.    In the last few years it’s been getting a lot of attention around the internet as well as some of the better of the TV chefs / cooking shows ( Heston Blumenthal, Top Chef, and others ). Over the last [...]

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This is the moon landing of the 21st century. In the 20th century people asked “where were you when Armstrong walked on the moon?”, “what were you doing when JFK was shot”. In a few decades we’ll all be asking eachother “Where were you when the double down was released?”. When asked this important question [...]

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I love Thai food, but have had a real hard time finding good Thai in Austin ( Although I’m told Thai Fresh downtown is excellent ). I finally decided that if I was going to have good Thai I’d have make it myself and spent the last few weeks on the lookout for shrimp paste, [...]

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I decided to turn my Pastured Pork Shoulder into one of my all time favourite dishes Cochinita Pibil. I’ve posted a recipe for this before so I won’t go into too much detail. Traditionally the Pibil is served with a red onion pickle. I also had some blue corn flour that I’ve been saving to [...]

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With a gallon of raw milk to get through I wanted to try my hand at making some cheese. After doing some googling and research I found a nice simple recipe that looked like it would work well. I poured a litre of milk into a heavy bottom saucepan and put it over low heat. [...]

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Searching my cookbooks for something to do with the Raw Milk I got yesterday from MooJesus Dairy I stumbled across this dish in the Momofuku cookbook. I took a few liberties with it ( the Capt Crunch and the cornflake tuille are my additions ).

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One thing that really annoys me about living in Austin is the lack of a really good butcher. Don’t get me wrong there’s a few good places to buy quality meat ( Central Market, Wholefoods, etc ) however their butchers are generally too busy running a long counter with lots of customers to talk meat. [...]

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I don’t cook fish much, something I often contemplate changing. With some fresh Mahi Mahi at $6/pound it seemed like a great opportunity to cook some. I decided to go for a basic saute with just salt and pepper. If I was doing it again I’d probably take it off the gas earlier and finish [...]

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What better way to celebrate the freak snow in Austin today than with a rich hot chocolate. Spanish hot chocolate is a thick rich drink which is often also used as a dipping sauce for a Churro. In fact the test of a good hot chocolate is being able to stand a churro up in [...]

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