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Posted in Cooking on Nov 14th, 2010
A few short weeks ago Hank Shaw over at Hunter Angler Gardener Cook announced his second annual duck cook off with Chef Michael Tuohy of Grange. As part of the announcement he held a competition to win dinner and a hotel for the night for two. I quickly and enthusiastically entered a recipe for a [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 19th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Cooking on Feb 22nd, 2010
Flan is a super simple dessert with just a few ingredients and a great dessert. You can make individual flans or one big one like I did. There’s a bunch of different ways to end up with about the same thing, Flan ( Creme Caramel, etc ) seems to a ‘traditional’ dessert all over the [...]
Posted in Cooking on Dec 7th, 2009
The other day Central Market had some freshly picked ( burrowed? ) Oregon Black Truffles. I’ve never cooked with a whole truffle before so decided to grab some and see what I could come up with. They also had some nice pork on special so I decided to do a Saltimbocca. Brussel Sprouts are in [...]
Posted in Cooking on Dec 6th, 2009
Chicken Fried Steak (CFS) is an Austin staple. Usually a CFS is made from a fairly cheap cut of beef which has been tenderized to within an inch of it’s life. Being a big fan of slow cooked meats, and recently playing with Sous Vide cooking I was pretty sure I could make a [...]
Posted in Cooking on May 12th, 2008
My girlfriend is a big Mario fan, so when she was out one morning I decided to bake her a treat. This was inspired by Fractal Cookies. I made up three batches of cookie dough. The plain white came out with a perfect consistency, the red was a bit sticky and the chocolate was a [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 28th, 2008
I work in a very creative environment, and we sometimes let our creativity get carried away with itself. A perfect example is an office prank that we performed today ( with a few days of preperation for it ). One of my staff (Matt, hence Christmatt) was away for a week. Everybody knows that when [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 21st, 2008
I’ve been baking bread for quite some time now, and I’ve never been totally happy with the results… until now! I wasn’t meticulous about measuring instead just went for the feel, and I kneaded it for longer than usual. I was making pizza bases, but had an excess of dough, so I rummaged through the [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 18th, 2008
A few days ago I stopped at a little Italian deli that I’ve been eyeing off for a while. While taking in all the wonderful delights from Italy and the Mediterranean I came across a small mexican section. Basking in a ray of sunlight was a stack of cans of Chipotle in Adobo sauce. This [...]
Posted in Cooking on Apr 14th, 2008
With plans to fire up the smoker I headed down to a local bulk butcher. I went straight to the cheap cuts and started grabbing meat. First up was a big chunk of pork, I had plans for some lamb, but they didn’t have any shoulder. I then picked up some sausages that were marked [...]
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